Oluomachi Nwoko, a final year student of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, has been delivered of quintuplets at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia.
Gatekeepers News reports that the 24-year-old undergraduate gave birth to three girls and two boys on Tuesday.
A nurse on duty, who spoke to ABNTV, said “The female babies came first and she is the first to give birth to quintuplets in the facility in a long time.”
Meanwhile, the final year student’s mother, Priscilla Nwojo said she was overjoyed by the gift of a quintuplet to her daughter.
She, however, noted that such an uncommon blessing usually comes with its peculiar challenges.
Nwojo, therefore, appealed to Government and public-spirited individuals to come to the aid of the family, saying that ”it’s not easy to take care of one (baby), how much more five persons under the present situation of Nigeria”.
The 56-year-old grandmother from Amamba in Abiriba kingdom of Ohafia Local Government Area, who gave her contact as 08035746487, said she was a petty trader while her husband “is a tailor.”
According to the mother of six, her daughter Oluomachi is also a twin.
The grandmother said, ”I thank God for this special gift. I’m a trader. I deal on pap and my husband is a tailor. We will be happy if Government can come to our help because it’s not easy to take care of one (baby), not to talk of five. But we thank God in everything.”
See photos of mother and children below:
Credit: Facebook | ABNTV
