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'Minimum wage person dead already' — TG Omori laments kidney treatment cost
He said dialysis can cost up to N200,000 per session and could reach N31 million a year while waiting for another transplant.
- On Wednesday, Nigerian director ThankGod Omori revealed details of his severe kidney failure during an Afropolitan Podcast interview, discussing a failed transplant involving his younger brother.
- After a nine-month search for a suitable donor, Omori underwent surgery at Nicholas Hospital in Lagos in August 2024, but doctors discovered the transplanted kidney had no blood flow and removed it.
- Dialysis treatment costs roughly 500,000 to 600,000 weekly, Omori noted, with annual treatment reaching about 31 million while awaiting a transplant.
- Nigerian entertainment figures including Don Jazzy, Olamide, Rema, Phyno, and Falz rallied behind Omori after his condition became public, with the director receiving about 200,000 messages of support.
- Reflecting on the ordeal, Omori concluded that while money cannot buy happiness, it can buy time, and he now approaches every production as if it were his last.
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'Minimum wage person dead already' — TG Omori laments kidney treatment cost
Nigerian music video director, TG Omori has opened up about the cost of his kidney failure treatment, saying a minimum-wage earner would struggle to afford even one dialysis session. Omori made the disclosure during a recent interview aired on September 23, 2026, on the Afropolitan podcast, where he reflected on his experience with kidney failure […] ‘Minimum wage person dead already’ — TG Omori laments kidney treatment cost
·Nigeria
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TG Omori laments failed transplant as brother lives with single kidney
Omori added that he spent another six months waiting before his family could find a suitable donor for a second transplant. He also revealed that the ordeal left his brother living with only one kidney.
·Lagos, Nigeria
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Leaning Left2Leaning Right0Center1Last UpdatedBias Distribution67% Left
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- 67% of the sources lean Left
67% Left
L 67%
C 33%
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