{"id":61144,"date":"2020-06-17T18:43:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T17:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/?p=61144"},"modified":"2020-06-17T18:43:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T17:43:51","slug":"former-miss-universe-olubummi-akinyosoye-down-with-partial-stroke-cries-out-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/former-miss-universe-olubummi-akinyosoye-down-with-partial-stroke-cries-out-for-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Miss Universe, Olubummi Akinyosoye Down With Partial Stroke, Cries Out For Help"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Miss Universe and astute businesswoman, Olubummi\nAkinyosoye has cried out to well meaning Nigerians for help as she is down with\npartial stroke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview with this publications, She spoke\nextensively  about everything that occurred with her, how she thrived as\none of the top secretaries in the country, how she suddenly fell ill three\nyears ago and how she has been battling with it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpts below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can we meet you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My name is Olubummi Akinyosoye I will be 60 years next month,\nthe first born in the family of 5, my parents are late. I became ill three\nmonths before my mum died three years ago. I started my career in NTA in 1979\nJuly, after that I went to a secretariat school where I qualified as a\nconfidential secretary, from there I got a job with Phillip Moris Nigeria and\nafter a year, I went back with NTA to work at the corporate affairs department.\nI was with NTA till I travelled in 1984. Before then in 1979, I did a modelling\njob for a magazine, I was on a cover, in 1980\/1981, we had the first miss\nuniverse competition in Nigeria, I took part, I came first in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I left NTA I worked with chase merchant bank, also as a\nsecretary,.I worked in John Holt, worked in a company called Nandina industries\n, I was PA to the executive director, I was also into dress making, there was a\nmagazine called Times magazine international, I had interviews with them every\nmonth, I was into art making as well and I have been all over. There was a bank\ncalled UCB, I was the first person there, it was even on CNN, I did a job for\nZain too, in between I went to Northampton  for a 6-months course later, I\nmoved into food business, I have been so versatile, before my ailment, I was\ndoing health business with a company with a Philippine company, alliance in\nmotion global , because I was doing well, I had to open a branch office on\nipaja road, it was working out well for me, suddenly I broke down with partial\nstroke, it\u2019s going to be three years next month. I give God the glory that I am\nlooking better now, I thank God my old school mate has been there for me. My\nkid sister died, I have been taking care of my mum and in between, I developed\nthis problem, I just need help, I need to get back on my feet (Sobs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What exactly is the diagnosis?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initially, they said its partial stroke, that\u2019s what I was told.\nI sold my business, sold lots of things for treatment, I have been living on a\ndrug that is so expensive, God is doing his own but the drugs has helped a lot,\nI had therapy, a class mate came and sponsored it for three months in LUTH, I\nwas going twice a week from Ipaja to Mushin, I was paying 12,000, there is a\ntrado therapy which is what people are suggesting, my legs were almost apart.\nIt has taken so much of me but to God be the glory, he is working, I have been\ntrying all necessary things, I need to try more to get back on my feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To what extent will you say this ailment has affected your\ncareer?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three years I have been like a pauper. I have become a total\nbeggar, I was up there, do you know what it is to be PA to number 2 in the\nwhole of John holt? I have not even been able to reach out to those I have\nworked with, I have not been able to go out, in the first place I was staying\nin town, but when my baby sister died, my mother fell down, she broke her hips,\nshe had to be in Igbobi for 9 weeks for surgery, I was the one taking care of\nher so I didn\u2019t have a choice, I had to move down to Ipaja, I have been out of\nwhere people can reach me. The only luck I had was that someone came for a\nprogram at a church someone took me to, a woman saw me, I didn\u2019t see her, she\nis a wife to one of my class mates because I have always been active in my old\nschool, she told her husband, and that was how my national president, my set\ngovernor, and some executives came to see me, they put it on the school\nplatform so that\u2019s how I have been sustaining myself, most people don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Was there a time you lost hope?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, sometimes I sit down and I start thinking, I used to wear\n6-inches foot wears, I wasn\u2019t a happening babe in the real sense, I knew my\nonions and very good at my job, when my boss in John holt was leaving, he gave\nme a letter of recommendation incase I have to get a job somewhere. I would\njust sit down and say God, I can\u2019t remain like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn\u2019t give up because I discovered that I wasn\u2019t in Christ\nand a life that isn\u2019t in Christ will be full of crisis, when God came into my\nlife and I sent everything to his court, I had peace  but even with the\npeace, how long will I remain like this? I have to go to the clinic every\nTuesday , each time I go, the cab alone takes N10,000. I can\u2019t walk to the road\nso I am just home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through it all, what will you say is the greatest lesson you\nlearnt?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My greatest lesson and regret is that I didn\u2019t have any\ncommitment with my creator, if I had, something like this wouldn\u2019t have\nhappened, I don\u2019t want to say I am a spiritualist, In the course of this, I\ndiscovered so many gifts I had always known. I don\u2019t know the English word but\nI call it Deja Vu, its not even Deja Vu, it\u2019s God speaking to you , directing\nyou but if you don\u2019t have him, you wont be able to recognize his voice, now I\nknow when I hear, when I see, all these things I can identify and I know that\nGod lives in me. I was a church goer but I wasn\u2019t committed. It\u2019s not about\ngoing to church, commitment to God happens in the heart, it\u2019s about having\nrelationship with God, this is God in me, it\u2019s not man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How would you want Nigerians to help?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m just thinking about retirement now, I\u2019m into networking now,\nthere is a company I am involved in already but I need to be a big distributor\nbecause I need to help people with the drug I used when I was really down, I\nhave been through it so when I tell you it will work for you, it will\ndefinitely because I have been there, although it\u2019s God that heals .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Miss Universe and astute businesswoman, Olubummi Akinyosoye has cried out to well meaning Nigerians for help as she is down with partial stroke. In an interview with this publications, She spoke extensively  about everything that occurred with her, how she thrived as one of the top secretaries in the country, how she suddenly fell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/bum-3.jpg?fit=810%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Suws-fUc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61150,"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61144\/revisions\/61150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}