Vivian, the wife of Nollywood actor<\/strong>, Victor Nwaogu, popularly known as Nkubi, has alleged discrimination within Nigeria\u2019s healthcare system following an insensitive remark made by a medical doctor to her during her pregnancy.<\/p>\n Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that Vivian made this known during an interview on Pulse One-on-One.<\/p>\n Recounting her experience, Nkubi\u2019s wife said that after undergoing an anomaly scan and presenting the result at the hospital, the doctor, whose name was not mentioned, inquired about a family history of dwarfism.<\/p>\n Vivian disclosed that the conversation took an unexpected turn when the doctor questioned her decision to conceive with her husband rather than opting for a sperm donor or getting her brother-in-law to help.<\/p>\n Nkubi\u2019s wife described the comment as insensitive and discriminatory, suggesting that persons living with dwarfism face prejudice, even within professional healthcare settings.<\/p>\n She said, \u201cWhen I did my anomaly scan and handed it to the doctor, he was like, \u2018Does anyone have a trait of dwarfism in your family?\u2019 Then I said, \u2018Yes. It is my husband.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe doctor asked me why didn\u2019t you go to your brother-in-law or even go outside to get pregnant instead of getting pregnant for your husband, or even get a sperm donor?\u2019 And yes, that is what a doctor told me. They are not giving equal rights in this country at all.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vivian, the wife of Nollywood actor, Victor Nwaogu, popularly known as Nkubi, has alleged discrimination within Nigeria\u2019s healthcare system following an insensitive remark made by a medical doctor to her during her pregnancy. Abia Radio News reports that Vivian made this known during an interview on Pulse One-on-One. Recounting her experience, Nkubi\u2019s wife said that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":241459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[1764,3245],"class_list":["post-241458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-nkubi","tag-victor-nwaogu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Nkubi-his-wife-and-daughter-e1770815505370.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}