An estimated 20,000 breast cancer cases are recorded in Nigeria annually. Only annual screening guarantees prevention of untimely death. Today, more Nigerian women are aware of their breast health and breast cancer; however, some damaging myths exist that misinform on the benefits of early detection and seeking prompt care. In commemoration of the World Cancer Day, Sebbeccly Cancer Care is dispelling common myths around the disease by promoting breast awareness, and helping people understand the benefits of early detection and treatment.

The Nigeria Elections Debate Group, NEDG, explained , yesterday, that is was non-partisan and that there was no justification for the All Progressives Congress, APC, to turn down its invitation to the on-going debate.

Nigerians from every nook and cranny have found Lagosan irresistible landof dreams. It is the nation’s number one destination for commerce, manufacturing, finance, and the media, and even the movie industry, which is clearly evident in the pace and pulse of the city’s activities.
Apart from being Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre and its major port city, Lagos is Nigeria’s former capital city, which was responsible for the attraction of the largest percent of federal presence and attention. Living in Lagos is exciting and opportunities and possibilities for the ambitious are almost limitless – sometimes elusively so.

Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, faulted claims by the Federal Government of revamping the Nigerian Railways, saying “despite the noise made, there was nothing on ground.”

In 2009, a Canadian man in a well celebrated scam lost $150,000 to Nigerian Lottery Scam. John Rempel of Leamington, Ontario, got an email way back in July, 2007 from someone claiming to be a lawyer with a client named David Rempel who died in a 2005 bomb attack in London, England, and left behind $12.8 million dollars.

Our position is basically fundamental. We have nothing against the budget process or all that PDP had attempted to do for the past sixteen years. But what we discovered was that year in year out, they make budget for all these projects, but because of corruption, the funding of the projects, the release of the funds for the projects is crippled.

Rita Dominic: Rita Dominic’s heavenly skin is even more famous than her luscious lips, get-lost eyes and sweet voice and acting ability. Once asked the secret, she replies:

If Biafra and its aftermath and its lessons are too distant to caution Nigerians, then Rwanda, and its graphic elaboration of the limitless boundaries of human depravity, a manifestation of a strain of spontaneous but highly contagious affliction of a compulsive obsession to hate and kill, must always jolt.

In the last three weeks, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP and the opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, APC have engaged each other in war of words in a bid to canvass for votes in the February general elections.

As the general elections draw nearer, there is increasing fear, apprehension and tension of post election violence in some parts of the country, especially, in the three geo-political zones of the North. This has made Nigerians that are not of Northern extraction to start relocating from the North especially, North East and North West where there have been increasing wave of insurgency.

There can be nothing more embarrassing than one of your husband’s friends, and a good family friend, witness your man’s weakness for the bottle. Seki, a usually bubbly mother of two is a social friend I enjoy touching base with from time to time. She’s always struck me as a discontent woman in spite of her happy disposition. In one of our usual chin-wags, she let it slip that her husband was a chronic alcoholic. “Better than a wife-batterer, I tried to console her.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, Governors Rochas Okorocha and Rotimi Amaechi of Imo and Rivers States, as well as formers governors of Lagos, Anambra and Abia States, Bola Tinubu, Dr. Chris Ngige and Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, were recently in Owerri on campaign.

At last, the much anticipated 2015 is here, and the elections are just a few days away. Shall they be the birth of a glorious new dawn or apocalyptic doom and gloom as long predicted by some? The whistle has been blown and the gladiators let loose.

Interestingly, as a registered Democrat I have voted in many American elections, but only once in Nigeria. This was during the second republic, with Shehu Shagari at the helm, before he was overthrown by a Major General Buhari-led military coup.

By John Egbokhan Out of contract Super Eagles Coach, Stephen Keshi has opted to be in charge of the clash between Delta/ Edo Ex-internationals and the rest of Nigeria tomorrow at the Warri City Stadium. The match was put together by friends of Okowa to showcase the PDP Gubernatorial Candidate, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa while veteran […]