Welcome to this week’s “Mental Health Chat Room”, this is a chat room           where we discuss the basics of our mental health in order to understand and have a full grasp of the rudiments of mental health and mental well-being. This is an essential component of our mental health advocacy activities […]

By Miftaudeen Raji  As Nigerians brace up for the 2023 general elections, with various political parties holding their primaries, party tickets in the two major political parties were keenly contested. Although the primaries in a number of states were greeted with violence, horse trading, alleged manipulation, vote-buying, some politicians demonstrated a great deal of sportsmanship.  While […]

•Igbo should appeal to conscience of Nigerians to give it to them —Umeadi •Igbo stakeholders must adopt a consensus candidate and mobilise for the person —Enugu monarch •Nigerians have phobia for Igbo presidency, but we shouldn’t give up —Diwe •Igbo presidency is possible if we unite, support Igbo candidate —Prof. Igwe •Igbo have put their […]

By Prof Gabriel Osoba The thirty-one day month ended on a note of no-pay-yet for the workers at the Ministry of Work, Labour and Unproductivity. Since the 27th of the month, hopes of a salary payment had been raised and dashed on a daily basis. Each rise and fall of expectation had made the workers […]

•Oba Otudeko; Otunba Niyi Adebayo; Govs Fayemi, Akeredolu, Abiodun; Subomi Balogun; Amosun; Olojudo, others pay tribute as Toyin Akomolafe, siblings bury father All roads lead to Ido-Ekiti, Ekiti State between Wednesday, May 11 and Friday, May 13 as Omooba (Dr) Adepoju Akomolafe will be laid to rest. The funeral promises to be ‘Ekiti burial of […]

BY DAMILOLA OGUNSAKIN Ubi Frankin, on his official Instagram account, posted a video of a woman who cried out to Nigerians for help after discovering that her child was ‘raped’ during a school trip to Dubai, organised by Chrisland Schools. Ubi franklin on his Twitter wrote: “Just got off the phone with a friend of […]

The Woman is important and integral to the solid foundation, building and wellbeing of every life in our society,  Over the years women have clamoured for relevance from the society and institutions built by the people they nurtured with their blood and sweat. Making it true that if you empower a woman you build a […]

The story of Alika Lauretta Romma, and others who have been waiting for more than two years to collect their claims from three cash strapped insurance firms mirrors the negative customer experience that discourages millions of Nigerians from patronising the industry.

*APC candidate, Oyebanji seeks integration of all members By Clifford Ndujihe & Rotimi Ojomoyela TO ensure it approaches the June 18, 2022 governorship election with a united front, the Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, last weekend, raised a reconciliation committee to address the grievances of aggrieved governorship aspirants, who are bitter […]

By Mike Ebonugwo Thursday, February 10, 2022 was a day of joy for the people of the Igbedi community in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. And to demonstrate their feeling in this regard they had put on their dancing shoes and trooped to the venue of the inauguration of the newly constructed 4.5km Igbedi […]

Former Commissioner for Information, Ogbuagu Anikwe , votes against zoning in Enugu State, but for a different reason.

A mirage! That’s the presumptuous word for democracy. Though expertly defined as the government of the people, by the people and for the people, it’s hardly the case. It’s rather contextual, apparently subsumed in the thoughts and imaginations of the affluent, the powerful and the political mavericks who twist it to suite their own whims and caprices.

You do not even need to be deliberate about looking out to identify street children in a place such as Oshodi, Lagos, for instance, before noticing them. They are all over every nook and cranny of Nigeria and easily identifiable; dirty, from head to toe and with mien that says a lot about substance abuse.

Two weeks ago, Angela, 47, a banker, walked out of her 19 year old marriage. It had not been a very happy ride anyways, having been the family breadwinner since Chuks lost his job about five years ago. But the shocking discovery that her husband had not only been cheating on her all these while and even sired a son outside their matrimony was the final straw.  

When Doris, a 30-year-old civil servant suffered series of successive pregnancy failures, she and her spouse were encouraged to seek specialized pregnancy care service.