The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Delta State Branch, has declared that a histology report circulating online and linked to relationship coach Blessing Okoro, popularly known as Blessing CEO, is a forgery altered from a document originally issued to a different patient.
In a statement signed by its chairman, Israel Adaigho, and secretary, Usamah Hannah, the association said the report in circulation was originally issued on May 9, 2025, by Xinus Medical Diagnostics in Asaba, Delta State, to a patient identified as Mbara Deborah, not Okoro, following a referral from a private Asaba hospital for a confirmatory breast cancer test.
“Xinus Medical Diagnostics is located in Asaba, Delta State, and did not at any time issue any report to Blessing Okoro,” the statement read.
According to the NMA, the facility’s proprietor, O.A. Odigwe, a consultant pathologist and NMA member, reached out to the branch to set the record straight after the report went viral. The association confirmed that Xinus was contacted in May 2025 by a referring doctor to conduct a confirmatory breast cancer test, and that the result, issued to the patient through the referring hospital, confirmed a cancer diagnosis.
The NMA noted that law firm Allen Juris Law had separately published the original report online with the patient’s actual name, Mbara Deborah, and that this was the version being widely shared. It added that the clarification had become necessary “in view of what the altered report being paraded by Blessing Okoro is now being used for, urging authorities to do the needful and save the unsuspecting members of the public from being taken undue advantage of.
Scrutiny intensified when Deborah came forward alleging that the medical report Okoro circulated had been edited from her own records. The situation worsened during an Instagram Live session with media personality Daddy Freeze, in which Okoro struggled to provide clear answers about her diagnosis.
In a later interview with social media influencer Egungun of Lagos, Okoro walked back the stage four claim, describing it as a possible miscommunication and attributing it to information passed to her by a doctor.
“For what? Who did I hurt?” she said in response to calls for an apology. “I think I’m not a doctor and maybe I just passed the message that a doctor gave to me.”
She also disputed reports that she had received N100 million in donations, maintaining that the actual amount was N13 million, and said her oncologist had yet to confirm the exact stage of any illness.
The NMA, in closing its statement, stressed that the integrity of its members “is very paramount and should not therefore be taken for granted.”
Calls for Okoro’s arrest have since grown louder, with actress Georgina Onuoha among those publicly urging authorities to act.
