{"id":68275,"date":"2025-06-17T08:40:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T08:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68275"},"modified":"2025-06-17T08:40:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T08:40:42","slug":"trem-offers-free-cataract-surgeries-to-500-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/17\/trem-offers-free-cataract-surgeries-to-500-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"TREM Offers Free Cataract Surgeries to 500 Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM), is set to provide free cataract surgeries to at least 500 Nigerians as part of activities marking the 80th birthday celebration of its Presiding Bishop, Dr. Mike Okonkwo.<\/p>\n<p>The medical outreach will be conducted at the Eye Foundation in Ikorodu, Lagos, following a screening exercise for prospective beneficiaries.<\/p>\n<p>Interested individuals can collect registration forms at TREM\u2019s headquarters in Obanikoro, Lagos, or register online.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the Planning Committee, Reverend Chinedu Nkere, said the initiative was inspired by Bishop Okonkwo\u2019s lifelong commitment to community service and development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe chose cataract surgery because restoring sight significantly improves quality of life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the surgeries, other events lined up for the celebration include the annual Mike Okonkwo Lecture and a football tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture, themed \u201cThe Nigeria of Our Dream: Today\u2019s Reality and a Responsible Pathfinder\u201d, is scheduled for September 4, 2025, with former Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo billed as keynote speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the football tournament, featuring 44 teams, will kick off on June 14, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM), is set to provide free cataract surgeries to at least 500 Nigerians as part of activities marking the 80th birthday celebration of its Presiding Bishop, Dr. Mike Okonkwo. The medical outreach will be conducted at the Eye Foundation in Ikorodu, Lagos, following a screening exercise for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172,1681],"tags":[1741],"class_list":["post-68275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","category-religion","tag-trem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68277,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68275\/revisions\/68277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}