It was a hat trick for Poise School of Communications last Sunday at the Sheraton Hotels, Lagos when Alumni of the school gathered for a re-awakening dinner where graduates were awarded certificates, distinguished Faculty advisers honoured and Life Patrons of the school presented with plaques.

I promised a few weeks back to look more into spousal abuse, especially where woman give as much as men in the put-down game. What jogged my memory into fulfilling this promise is this letter from a male reader detailing abusive treatment suffered in the hands of his girlfriend.

Sandip Soparrkar and his dance troupe stunned guests with their superlative performance at the 2009 Fund Raising Dinner organised by the Youth Business Initiative Nigeria last Friday in Lagos .

Now we know what our rights and responsibilities as consumers are. How then can we seek redress in a genuine case of unexpected object such as a hair weave in a meatpie? I will advise that you do not make a scene. Do not keep quiet either. Quietly point out the object to your waiter and ask for a replacement.

How many times have you followed a diet without fully understanding the difference between a protein and a complex carbohydrate, what each of them do in the body, or in which foods they are found? No dietary plan is ever going to be successful if you don’t have the basics in place. Often, I hear people say they don’t have anything to do with carbohydrate, blaming their weight gain on it.