Inside the world of traditional BIRTH attendants
Why pregnant women are shunning hospitals for their centres Our encounters with HIV-positive moms In 2015, 342 of them helped birth 14,536 babies. In 2014, 809 of them attended to 23,229 deliveries,...
View Article10 simple ways to make your wife happy
WHILE dream vacations and life milestones are important, it’s the simple things you do that make your wife happy. Show love and respect to your bride every day, and remind her why you were the best...
View ArticleDangerous meat, toxic waters (1)
ON Monday, at 10.00 am, a lanky butcher picks his teeth in a stream of blood. His name is Taofeeq and he reeks of dung. His brown shirt drips with the blood of over 50 cows and his boots are smeared in...
View ArticleREIGN OF TERROR
In many parts of the world, travelling by road at night is an experience many relish. It is usually hassle-free expedition as one could simply recline in his seat and sleep away until one gets to his...
View ArticleMy husband’s death is puzzling -Ex-FAAN MD’s widow Sakpere
Last week, high society people poured into the home of Chief (Mrs.) Emily Sakpere in Lagos to commiserate with the top socialite and businesswoman on the recent loss of her husband and former Managing...
View ArticleMy father is a big fan of James Bond -Pastor Adeboye’s son
Leke, the youngest of the four children of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, doubles as his father’s Personal Assistant (PA). In this interview...
View Article‘Why I dumped legal practice to become a PILOT
Twenty-nine-year-old Olamide Oyindamola Akinfolarin is one of the few female pilots in the country and the first to be produced in Ondo State. She became a pilot after she had trained as a lawyer; the...
View ArticleI thought I’d be first African to go to space -Newtown Jibunoh
At almost 80, the founder of Fight Against Desert Encroachment (FADE), Dr. Newton Jibunoh, remains his agile and spritely self, engaging himself in some kinds of physical exercise considered...
View ArticleHow you can tell when someone has a crush on you
HOW can you tell if someone has a crush on you? Beyond that, how do couples even form these days? Obviously, frequently two people come together completely on purpose via online dating, in which case...
View ArticleDeadly meat in abattoirs
OLAKUNLE AYINDE has never buried a cow. He “will never cut and burn expensive cattle because of ordinary sickness.” But he has buried two sons in a row. Timothy, three, died of “acute malaria” in 2014;...
View ArticleCourt remands 12 over “Ile-Zik” kidnappers den
Twelve suspected kidnappers including a woman, arrested by the police in connection with a kidnappers’ den at Ile-Zik Bus Stop in Ikeja, were yesterday remanded at the Ikoyi Prisons on the orders of a...
View ArticleOver 100 IDPs benefit from NAF’s medical outreach
At least 100 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) yesterday benefitted from a free medical service organised by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) in Lagos. The medical outreach which was approved by the...
View ArticleLagos rehabilitates freed Badagry prison teenagers, unites them with family...
Lagos State Government has commenced the process of rehabilitating and re-uniting the 80 newly released teenagers from Badagry prison to their family and relatives. The teenagers were on Tuesday last...
View ArticleTwo held for stealing N16m tomato paste
Two workers, Obadiah Ogi, 42, and Adeyemi Abaekere, 40, have been arraigned before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing N16 million Vitali tomato paste. The accused were...
View ArticlePolice arrest dismissed naval officers for car snatching in Abia
The Abia State Police Command has announced the arrest of six persons allegedly identified as members of a secret cult in Abia State. The command has also arrested some dismissed naval officers as...
View ArticleOgun customs impounds N62m smuggled vehicles, frozen poultry, rice
The Ogun State Command of Nigeria Customs Service has recorded a seizure of 2,000 bags of rice, frozen chicken and exotic cars worth over N62 million. The contrabands were intercepted between Abeokuta...
View ArticleFEDSARS operatives allegedly kill artisan over uncompleted job
A tanker builder, Paul Hodewu aka Agbede has allegedly been killed by operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FEDSARS) in Ogun State, over his inability to complete a job given to him by...
View ArticleReligious tourism: Give ‘Ikotun-Lagos a facelift’
SOME residents of the Isolo-Ejigbo-Ikotun area of Lagos have called on the Lagos State government to pay greater attention to the area as, according to them, “this is the tourism corridor of the...
View ArticleCNN’s editor for Luxury Lifestyle Summit
Topcomm PR and the Luxury Reporter, organisers of the Luxury Lifestyle Summit, have confirmed the CNN Africa Editor, Stephanie Busari, as the moderator of the panel discussions at the inaugural summit...
View ArticleLast moments of Gov Ortom’s aide brutally murdered in Benue
In the early hours of Sunday, unknown gunmen attacked the home of the Principal Assistant to the Benue State Governor on Knowledge Economy and Investment, Dr. Tavershiama Adyorough, sniffing life out...
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