Incorporating a salad into your regular diet is as essential to modern living as a blackberry or air conditioning. The greens and reds are packed full of minerals, vitamins and free radical fighting anti oxidants.
Once, gender activists in civil society circles succeeded in making a fact out of the theory that held that women are naturally more honest than men. In extension, the fairer sex is postulated to be more nurturing, considerate, humble than their male counterparts, in addition to being better managers and great multitaskers.
In the days when it was fashionable for first ladies to have pet projects, the wife of earstwhile wife of the Vice President Hajiya Titi Abubakar and earstwhile governor of Edo State Mrs. Eki Igbinedion, were notable in their fight against trafficking in persons.
Now that Libyan dictator Moummar Ghadaffi has been done away with, the whole of Africa is suddenly singing his praises. He was the guy who tamed the West for so many decades, ensuring his nation’s wealth of human resources was completely deployed for the good of the citizens of the country from which the resources were removed.
With entertainment dominating television in the last decade, Big Money has gone more into financing the ambitions of would be singers and dancers via a dozen and one reality shows. Name the multinational- if they are doing television, they doing song, dance and reality. It was only a matter of time before fashion would catch the attention it deserves.
WITH the advanced development of literature in Africa and the award to Wole Soyinka of the Nobel in the 80s, no one might have thought Peace would turn out to be the subject the continent would be most awarded for.
WHENEVER there is talk of domestic violence, a common standing joke is of women who beat their husbands up. Definitely a very uncommon phenomenon, there is every possibility of seeing a rise in the phenomenon in our society in the near future.
MRS Ebun Clark has modelled her life after four remarkable female academics, accomplished individuals who, for the sake of modesty and their privacy, have mostly avoided the public eye. Amongst these are Professor Bolanle Awe of the Ibadan University, Professor Mrs Olurin and Professor Oyin Elebute of the Lagoon hospitals.
Not every woman was born with the dream of one day holding her own kind in her arms in the form of a baby, but surely, that instinct catches up with nearly every woman at one point or the other. Beyond the biological, there is the social expectation that every female, whether or not she is married, should give birth to a child.
You feel you are in their lives, those sometimes doubtful characters that live inside your television and get you holding your breath every so often when you watch them. You get sucked in, too involved. You take sides in the conflicts. You feel their fears, tensions, joy.
