A student of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture in Umudike, Abia State, Oluomachi Nwojo, has been delivered a set of five babies – quintuplets.
The student of Environmental Management, a native of Abiriba in Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State, delivered the babies at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia through caesarean section.
Oluomachi had two baby boys and three girls.
The 24-year-old student expressed happiness at the delivery of her babies, describing it as a wonderful experience.
She said: “This is my first delivery and I am grateful to God for making me a partaker of this wonderful blessing.
“I believe God knows the best for my children; I am feeling fine and gradually recuperating.
“I am calling on the government and good-spirited individuals to help me in training the babies because I cannot carry the burden alone.
“At this stage, I need assistance to buy milk and other necessities for the babies.”
Joining to ask for assistance, her mother Priscilla said: “It is not easy to take care of one (baby), how much more five persons under the present situation of Nigeria.”
The 56-year- old grandmother said she is a petty trader while her husband “is a tailor.”
The Director of Protocol at the hospital, Darlington Madubuko, said the delivery of the quintuplets was the first of multiple deliveries at the facility.
“The hospital records more than 50 multiple births annually and our staff are well trained to successfully handle such cases.
“We have had quadruplets before now, but this is the first time the hospital is recording the birth of quintuplets in the recent past.
“The two male babies are in the neonatal unit of the hospital receiving treatment and the three female babies are with their mother in the postnatal ward,” Madubuko said.