By Sam Hart ANY Abian with genuine love for the state at heart will agree that the security situation in Abia State has reached a stage where it would no longer be enough to sit back and wish that the spate of kidnapping and armed robbery in the state will go away on its own. […]

By Ochereome Nnanna I HAVE watched with sour interest what has been going on between Akwa Ibom and Cross River states since the Federal Government decided that the latter was no longer an oil-producing state. The story of the two sister states is an ironic and intriguing rise of a former underdog and the increasing […]

By Mike Ebonugwo Fashion-crazy Nigerian ladies may do well to read this. An impromptu gathering of parliamentarians in a commercial bus popularly known as Danfo has passed a judgement of condemnation on them after a heated debate on whether the prevailing dress culture in the country is justified in any way. The parliamentarians had boarded […]

Also, access to and from the community has been denied as the major road has been taken over by flood. The road had become slippery and those who dare to go out would have to remove their shoes and wade through the flood,…

NUDE pictures of some members of the Ogun State House of Assembly published last week in newspapers are minor indices of where we are as a country. Unexpectedly, the owners of the pictures have admitted that the pictures were theirs, with slight disagreements about whether they were taken in a shrine or the private home […]

By AbdulWahab Addullah IN what appears as a reaction to the recent declaration of self determination by members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, police authorities may have moved to nip the secession plan. MASSOB had, on Tuesday, in Okwe, Onuimo, Imo State declared self determination and launched […]

By Jemi Ekunkunbor She stands at an impressive 5ft 9in, with an almost flawless skin. Mrs Dorothy Atake could have passed for a model or one that has retired. But the mother of four adorable children is nothing of that sort. She is one of the amazons in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. […]

Some five months ago, Earnest, a charted accountant who’d just ventured into going it alone in his private firm, became a father for the first time. He’s still in awe of what he termed “a miracle and God’s priceless gift to us”. According to him, “mV son’s coming has turned me up-side out. All those things that seemed essential to me have, in the past days, taken on a different colour.

Today didn’t go as I had planned. I was set for a photo-shoot. I had scheduled clients and intended to take next steps on an article for Allure. Instead, Maggie, my older daughter, ended up home from school. I cancelled all appointments to take care of her.

I’m sure a lot of you are wondering what a mud bath is. It happens to be one of the most popular treatments in European Spas. Mud baths originated hundreds of years ago in Europe and has also been a popular treatment for centuries among Native Americans. In the 1940’s and 50’s mud baths were mainly sought after by elderly individuals seeking relief form rheumatism and arthritis.