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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:44
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Comments [8]

Doyin O
26 Dec 2009 1:42p.m.

Jide, Keep up the good work. From all I have heard and seen, you are providing a very essential social service needed for and by the community. It is your calling and you have answered the call. These testimonies show you and your company staff are hardworking people. Stay Bless.

Theresa Ogunsanya
11 Nov 2009 12:42a.m.

I am proud to be a Nigerian.This is an evidence that something good still come from Nigeria no matter how people from developed Country might have painted Her. To my Uncle Jide Samuels please keep up the good work and I know that the Lord will reward you as you have the concern and burden of old people at heart in NZ knowing fully well that one day will be when you too will be as old as they are and will need the companion of young bones to enjoy your grey hair too. Stay Bless.

Pamela Mitawa
09 Nov 2009 2:52p.m.

Hi Diana, yes,it is pleasing to see good support for the elderly. I have thought of being a companion to someone who might be alone but didn't know how to go about doing it. I live in Wellington and work from home doing medical recruitment. Where about are you? I look foward to hearing back from you.

Liz Malcolm (niece)
09 Nov 2009 2:48p.m.

It is truly wonderful to see my Aunty Hilda being cared for so well in the home environment she loves so much. Thank you Jide.

lorraine
09 Nov 2009 8:06a.m.

diana, are you own of those who leaves the elderly to ? If so why comment, you could go out there too and put some hours in for someone. Theres a lot of people out there doing very good work for the elderly, just one is delivering there meals like he said. Nice to see whats happenening in the other end of nz

Mike Adeolu
09 Nov 2009 3:14a.m.

There are more Nigerians doing the right thing than the wrong. Jide is one of many Nigerians out there doing the right thing; please keep up the good works.

I hope that the press will give the Nigeria nation a chance. While reporting on the negative ones (which by the way is not peculiar with any nation) they must balance the ratio with the good ones.

The press should desist from naming any particular crime after any nation. If we should name crimes after the nations of the person that committed it, we know where the pendulum will lie; it is definitely not Nigeria. We will have many names from the imperial holocuast to the Jewish holocaust.

cyril
08 Nov 2009 10:01p.m.

Seems strange to me that a man from a place like Nigeria comes to NZ to look after our elderly when we consider ourselves the conscience of the world.

Diana Wakefield
08 Nov 2009 7:25p.m.

It is pleasing to see someone getting into supporting the older folk who are left to rot mentally, physically and emotionally. I am not quite there yet, but know the aloneness of not having family around to visit, and friends few and far away. I have thought to adopt myself out as a grandmother to some family so I can enjoy the family situation again, or be a companion to someone of bright mind who might be alone as well. It is hard to know how to go about doing such a thing or where to go, but seeing that article on Jide Samuals and his family, I felt a sense of all things can be done and maybe somewhere there is someone for me and I am here for someone... and hopefully there may be more of us out there, so I would like to get some response. Go well

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