What I told President Buhari — Hilary Adike, 1985 Golden Eaglet
Despite showing gratitude to President Muhammadu Buhari for remembering to honour the class of 1985 members of the Nigerian U-16 team that won the first edition of the FIFA cadet championship held in China, a member of the group, Hilary Adike has vowed never to allow any of his children to play football for the country.
Political Notes
Last Wednesday’s petulant move by some stakeholders in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to forcefully take over the leadership of the party was another unwelcome development that sincere stakeholders in the party would have prayed never happened. But yes it did, capping days of unpalatable activities affecting the party.
ATM: Alex Ekubo in love tangle with Yvonne Jegede
This experience was more pronounced at the set of Lancelot’s ATM, featuring the likes of Francis Get out of Here”star, Odega, Nollywood hunk, Alex Ekubo, Yvonne Jegede, Eleno, and British-born actress, Claire Edun, aka Oyibo Princess.
Poverty can be eradicated with good governance – Ken Imansuangbon
My hard working parents. I was born in Ewohimi, Edo State, but my father relocated to Ijebu-Ode where he worked as a rubber plantation manager. He managed a group of people at a rubber plantation in Ijebu- Ode. This inspired me to be hard working. My widowed mother too summoned up courage when my father died and gave us (the children) needed support in her little way.
Parents who encourage siblings’ rivalry damage their children
I think it’s fair to say that my sister Kate—eight years my senior—hated me from the moment I was born” sighed 39-year-old Adesuwa, a mother of three and an educationist. “She bullied me relentlessly throughout our childhood, and she won’t dispute either of these facts. Cruel, frequently violent and resentful of my very existence, her bullying left me damaged to the point that it will forever impinge on my happiness.
From my mailbox
Thanks for this article on Uncle Rufus and Mummy Laide. It is as if the story is about my father. He married seven wives while he was alive and did not take care of us the 18 products of his relationships. Instead, he spent his money on clothes, musicians and more women. My mother, like most of the other mothers took care of themselves and their children. Many of them were forced to move out to take care of their children as single parents. The two wives who lived to old age in his house, probably did so because they had no other place to go when the others were leaving one after the other. Till today, we still ask our mother what she saw back then in a man who already had six wives and 14 children.
