To read Onyeka Onwenu’s autobiography is to be a fly on the wall completely absorbed in multilayered intimate conversations with her about a thoroughly fascinating life. It transports the reader from the joys of a relatively privileged childhood in pre-Civil War Port Harcourt to the traumatic death of her father in a car crash before […]
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By Maclawrence Famuyiwa As we age, our sexual drive significantly reduces. This is most noticeable in women after menopause. But as menopause is true in women so is andropause true in men. Andropause though not commonly mentioned, was coined from two Greek words “andras (human male)” and “pause (to stop, cessation)”. So, by definition andropause […]
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The Returning officer of the Anambra Governorship election, Professor Florence Obi has said that a supplementary election would hold in 362 polling units in Ihiala Local Government Area on November 9. Citing the Constitution, Prof. Obi noted that election has to take place in those polling units for the election to be concluded. She noted […]
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Men of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, aka Amotekun Corps, have apprehended a man, Ibrahim Sani, for allegedly kidnapping and raping a woman. The 19-year-old suspect was reportedly arrested in Akure, the state capital. The state Commander of the corps, Chief Adetunji Adeleye, during a parade of the suspect, said the teenager had participated […]
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Osun State Government on Sunday said it arrested a resident identified simply as Sanjo, in Osogbo, the state capital, for allegedly beating his child to death. The state Commissioner for Women, Children and Social Affairs, Olubukola Olaboopo, in a statement, said the 43-year-old suspect, who lived around the Alekuwodo area, had been handed over to […]
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Seven days after a 21-storey building collapsed on Gerrard Road, in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State, recovery operation is still ongoing by rescue agencies. It was learnt that responders were already concluding their operation as the death toll hit 44 on Sunday. Our correspondents had reported that the 21-storey building crumbled last Monday around […]
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Some of the people abducted at the University of Abuja Senior Staff Quarters and rescued by the police have recounted their ordeals in the kidnappers’ den. According to them, on the first day, they drank gari with dirty water, while on the second day they were given leftover food. They said they trekked for hours […]
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Globacom on Sunday said it had added 2.81 million customers to its subscriber base in September. In a statement, the company said the development was according to a report by the Nigerian Communication Commission. The statement quoted Glo as saying, “The reported growth for the operator, expanded its active customer base to 52,934,990. Other service […]
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The National Youth Service Corps has lamented that inmates in the facilities of the Nigerian Correctional Service feed better than corps members. The Director-General of the NYSC, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, who stated this when he appeared before the House Committee on Youth Development for budget defence on Wednesday, said corps members were served a […]
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Death toll in last week’s Ikoyi, Lagos building collapse has now risen to 42. Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who gave an update on the tragedy on Saturday, disclosed that 42 bodies had been recovered from the site as of 6pm. The governor in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Gboyega Alaka, also stated […]
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