Have you let it grow on you? Having a head full of lustrous hair is a turn-on any day, yet if you have never cut your hair you are probably covering up more than your scalp: a fear of change.

Everyone knows that fish is good for you. The fats in fish, especially fatty fish like salmon, tuna, and mackerel, are thought to help prevent heart disease, and can even aid in preventing diseases like Alzheimer’s and strokes. But it seems that many people are afraid of cooking fish at home. We eat twice as much fish in restaurants as at home. Buying, storing, and cooking fish isn’t difficult; it just requires a little knowledge.

Prominent female activist and South south spokesperson Ann Kio Briggs is one of the Nigerian women best placed to bring about socio political change in the country as we know it. It is refreshing when a female political leader is not all about so-called women issues.

When the mother of the Minister for the economy/Minister of Finance was snatched by kidnappers later in 2012, there really was no telling what the outcome could be. The outpourings of goodwill expressed by friends and colleagues of professor Kamene Okonjo was almost matched by the avalanche of criticism of the minister, who was thought to be one of those responsible for the hike in petrol prices of January 2012, occasioned by the partial removal of existing government subsidies.

As most modern women would agree, long gone are the days when women were prudes, and childbearing was an essential raison deter for engaging in sexual acts. Today, women are said to initiate the act almost as often as men do, while they expect to be satisfied as much as to satisfy.

It is thought that women everywhere generally like to read far less than men, unless it is romance, or about some heart fluttering gentleman about to ride off cavalierly with then into the endless sunset. The current reality though is that women like to read about other women, thus the rise of chicklit.

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It’s the same one you’ve always and modern day traditions have not been able to sweep it away.

Nafisatou Diallo, the West Africa born hotel chambermaid who had accused Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of trying to rape her has reached an agreement to settle her lawsuit, likely ending a legal saga that forced the onetime French presidential contender’s resignation and opened a floodgate of accusations against him.

Lawyer and multifaceted journalist Henrietta Abisola Titilola Fagbo has had a burden for our national societal values for a very long time. This burden was to find an outlet in a television and radio program, Profiles of Achievers, which began to air about ten years ago. Earlier in 2012, it all evolved into a documentary in print featuring more than twenty of the celebrated men and women who had been interviewed on radio and/or television..

In the later days of the era when being a television presenter was synonymous with glamour in Nigeria, Rita Alakija’s presence was one of the newer generation ones that graced the more upmarket side of the tube. Many years after she moved on, worked in the financial sector and successfully battled illness for many years, the mother of one better known as a broadcaster recently announced her foray into gospel music by a concert in Lagos, raising many a brow from observers who had not known of the diversity of her previous work life spanning experience in the aviation and financial sectors. She sings using the trade name AIMEE and does not bat an eyelid when she asserts that broadcasting did not prepare her in any way for the rigours of producing a seven-track album while on six or seven different and debilitating medications.

Hairdressing business is one of the fastest growing businesses in the world, Africa and Nigeria. This is because the numerous beauty needs of women have the health and beauty of the hair at the top of the list.

Dr Evelyn Omawumi Urhobo is the President/Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Smart Development Foundation who has made her mark in both the public and private sectors of the economy. It is often said that it is not how long, but how well a person has lived. The success or otherwise of a person’s life is not so much in the wealth he has acquired but in the number of lives he has impacted. Based on these, Dr. Evelyn Urhobo is set to roll out the drums with friends and family on November 19, 2012, to celebrate her 60th birthday and retirement from public service. In this chat with Vanguard, Urhobo speaks on the celebration as well as her plans for the future

Jenifa – aka funke Akindele, or is it the other way round- is the household name that has changed the way we do the big screen, probably forever.

Before the film Jenifa, she was only the obscure, plain looking actress on daytime television playing one of three friends on some sponsored drama telling us to beware of the downsides of early marriage, vesico vaginal fistula and female genital mutilation.

As the year draws to a close, an essential part of cleaning up is the cleanup of your wardrobe. If you’re still wearing last year’s maxis and platform heels, you most probably require an update now. Trending now are:-

Something really funny happened to me today.

Well, i got up early as usual, made breakfast for the kids and then lunch for the house( i like to prepare everything at once so i can relax after church). Got the kids ready for church, then decided to get myself ready for church while the kids were having their breakfast.