Dangerous lifestyles of Nigerian hustlers in South African enclave
Fresh from an adventure into the Johannesburg’s underworld governed by drug, sex, murder and other anti-social activities, SEUN AKIOYE writes on how many Nigerians live in a part of the South African...
View Article‘How Vir2o ‘ll redefine social media’
CEO of East Coast Diversified Corporation, Kayode Aladesuyi, a US-based Nigerian, and founder of Vir2o, a new website giving a different meaning to the social media experience, loves challenges. Joe...
View ArticleTogether, at Home and at Work
I spent much of the last six months helping my wife with a rare professional opportunity. When friends heard how many days, nights and weekends we spent in the same room, they had the same reply:...
View ArticleOmowunmi Akinnifesi slows down
Tongues are wagging over former beauty queen, Omowunmi Akinnifesi’s absence from public glare. So conspicuous is her absence that the social circle is abuzz with speculations about her whereabouts. In...
View ArticleAjimobi’s daughter delivered of baby girl
The population of the household of the Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has just increased by one. His daughter, Abisola Ajimobi, was delivered of a beautiful baby girl in the US. It was the...
View ArticleThe mistress (3)
It wasn’t just my mother who was opposed to my union with Frank. Expectedly, his wife did not want anything to do with me and swore that it would be over ‘her dead body for her to share her home with...
View ArticleAn Alice in Wonderland
In Nigeria, a major problem affecting research in HIV/AIDS is getting reliable data. The reasons are protean; governments at all levels are prepared to release millions and billions of Naira to...
View ArticleLook good, feel better
WHEN it comes to wardrobe and fashion, many guys don’t realize that clothing does indeed “make the man.” What you wear is just as important to others as to yourself. To be taken seriously in today’s...
View ArticleElizabeth Atuche takes solace in God
Even though it be a cross that raiseth me, nearer my God to thee, nearer to thee “. There is no denying the fact that the foregoing line of a popular hymn is having more than a soothing effect on the...
View ArticleFrom Prison to Freedom park
Three years after the former Broad Street colonial prison was transformed from an old and abandoned prison to a place for relaxation called Freedom Park, Okorie Uguru visited there and relates his...
View ArticleGani Adams bags another title
It is indeed a happy time for the National Coordinator of Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Otunba Gani Adams, and his family. The OPC strongman added another feather to his cap on Monday, November 18,...
View ArticleProf Peller’s son floats multi-milion naira club
Not a few would agree that Shina Peller’s grip on the social scene in Nigeria has more to do with his very deep pocket than his family background. Shina is the son of the late Prof. Abiola Peller. That...
View ArticleLeah Abiara’s changing lifestyle
It would appear that the lifestyle of the girl-about-town, Leah Abiara, has been reshaped by marriage. The controversial daughter of Pastor S. K. Abiara of the Christ Apostolic Church got married late...
View Article‘Skills acquisition paramount for industrial growth’
Prof. Longmas Wapmuk, is Director-General, Industrial Training Fund (ITF), where he has been calling the shots since 2006. The ITF, which suffered a chequered existence following years of inactivity,...
View ArticleINEC, PDP, Wada urge Supreme Court to dismiss case
Judgment on February 21 The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Kogi State Governor Idris Wada yesterday urged the Supreme Court to dismiss an appeal...
View ArticleSATLagos office opens next month
All is set for the opening of the South Africa Tourism (SAT) office in Lagos. The event is billed for December 10. The office will be declared open by Marthinus van Schalkwyk, South Africa’s Minister...
View ArticleI’ve no beauty routine, I only wear powder and lipsticks—NTDC D-G Sally...
The Director-General of the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), Mrs. Sally Uwechue-Mbanefo, is a woman on a mission. Since she was appointed into that position in May, the former Executive...
View ArticleOya: Harbinger of positive change
There is no doubt that encouraging the cultural heritage is an incentive for investment in cultural tourism. Little wonder, advocates of the Yoruba cultural heritage and other cultural aficionados...
View Article9 Signs your bad relationship is affecting your life
When you are in a bad relationship, it’s hard to actually watch out for the signs your bad relationship is affecting your life and really messing with your personality. Bad relationships can be...
View ArticleMy pains going about with one hand -Pastor Movel
Pastor James Movel Wuye relives how he lost a limb to what he described as needless violence, the pains he bears and the gains of the peace initiative he now champions with his foe turned friend, Imam...
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