My father, Abul-Lateef Adisa Animasaun, worked for Chief Okupe for some years until he decided to go on his own. He handled cash and credit for the man that Nigerians knew wide and wide as Agbonmagbe. He was also known as Agbonmagbe Bank.

Agbonmagbe ran a good bank that the Western Regional Government bought it off him and then it became the Wema Bank. Till the end of the time of Chief Okupe, the chief and my father were good friends. My father would seek advice from him. My father died many years ago at 82.

I felt sad when I read on the internet that a young lady in her 20s attempted to take her life because her boyfriend left her a note saying that he was ending their relationship because he no longer found her attractive.

The mid length slit dress is out, they have been replaced with long slit skirts or maxi dresses in light, flowing fabrics that give a not_so_subtle hint of leg as one struts along. These thigh high slit dresses give more than a hint of leg. They show off the whole leg with the split reaching the top of the thigh. For an even greater visual impact, the split will pass the top of the thigh and reach the hip

Overweight (obesity) is a serious medical condition that needs expert care. Weight loss is not what you buy over the counter or from the streets…

Olayinka Babatunde Balogun, until recently, was Principal Staff Officer, PSO, to the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Hafiz Ringim. He was one of the few changes the Ringim-led police made late last year. Balogun is the Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State.

Only a few days away from Dior’s show during Paris Fashion Week, the 15 years career of Galliano as Chief Designer at Dior has abruptly come to an end. The French fashion house decided to cut all ties with John Galliano following the racist and anti-Semitic allegations at a couple in a Parisian brasserie. Dior already suspended Galliano last Friday

Recently, more than ever before, there has been a step-up propaganda on the advantages of breast-milk for babies. If, for a reason, you can’t breast-feed your baby, the-poor mite might he left with a future so disadvantaged you would wish rent-abreast-milk options are readily available on the market.

The political campaign season is upon us. That four-year cycle that pumps up adrenaline, and is the bull-pulpit equivalent of the thriller in Manila allows us to see not only much political theatre but also real blood on the sand. In this republic, as we strive to make it, to borrow the terms of another clime, a kinder and gentler society, the powerful animus of self-interested and deeply entrenched private hatreds will come to fore and indeed clash with the public interest.

Lately, I’d been prompted by readers to let them know of the love lives of my two close friends, Lilian and Ini. Well, they are fine and up to all sorts of mischief as usual. Only a few weeks ago, I called at Lilian’s and was surprised she wasn’t in one of her mumsy house dresses.

From the stables of Coast2Coast,Lagos, the publisher of the award-winning novels, Preganancy of the gods, and Treasure in the Winds by Odili Ujubuonu, Colourless Rainbow: Poetry of My Childhood by Senator Ihenyen, is now out