“Go and bring the money you stole from my purse. If you do not get it, I will teach you a lesson today”. With this threat, 12-year-old Nofi(other names withheld) said she bolted from her grandmother’s apartment in Aiyenero, under Ajeromi local government area of Lagos State, two weeks ago. Time was 4pm.

This is bizarre but true. A two-month -old girl was arrested and paraded in lieu of her father who was suspected to be a dare-devil robber. The mother was taken into custody along the toddler identified as Oyinkansola. It happened in Ogun State.

Policemen stormed the residence of the alleged armed robber, Ismail Adeosun, at Ago-Ika in Abeokuta North local government area and, because they could not find the suspect, they arrested every Adeosun available.

Plans by Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, to return to the classroom as an  academic appear to be at the final stage as the Vice Chancellor of  Ekiti State University (EKSU), Prof  Dipo Aina, presented to the governor documents on the establishment of the Institute of Governance as passed by the Varsity  Council. Fayemi […]

Hillary Clinton tops the list of most influential women in politics; her influence is felt in Washington as much as it resounds far away in Benghazi, the Libya stronghold of late Moammar Gadhafi. As the US Secretary of State wraps up her assignment at the White House and possibly prepares for the US presidential race in 2016 as its being widely speculated, she has left many women across the world inspired by her daring leadership in very cumbering male-dominant terrain.

During one of her stage performances as she sang to the admiration of her audience, she uttered between dance steps how much she wanted her listeners to “feel this love that is growing inside of me”. She abruptly stopped the music, dropped her microphone on the stage and went on to thoroughly massage her growing bump. I was completely mesmerized and taken over when I realized that this was how Beyonce wished to announce unashamedly to everyone that she was pregnant for her hubby Jay Z.

Mrs Omotunde Lawson is the new president of Rotary Lagos West. In this interview, she dismisses the notion that Rotary Club is only for the rich.She also speaks on the Rotary incubator project at a Lagos hospital.

University of Benin (UNIBEN) has been in the news of late over the allegation that the management favours the employment of Bini natives to the detriment of others. In this interview, the vice chancellor, Prof Osayuki Oshodin, responds. Oshodin spoke after a Fellowship Award was conferred on him by the Nigeria Institute of Entrepreneurs.

The 2011 general elections that claimed many of the corps members that participated as adhoc staff, put government on its toes as people intensified the call for the scrapping of the scheme.

The institution which used to be the flagship of polytechnics in the southeast is stinking. Will current efforts clear the rot? The Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu was established under the then East Central State of Nigeria Edict No. 10 of 1973 promulgated by the administrator of Ajie Ukpabi Asika…

Adoption is to take someone else’s child into your home and legally become her parent.

Adoptive parenting ought to be a privilege and not a sacrilege, and treating your God-sent child rightly includes being transparent and open about matters of her existence. It is needless sacrificing your loving relationship with your child on the altar of falsehood and secrecy. Be open and ready to answer her questions, no matter how mind-boggling they sound. Do not shut him out. You need to settle your uneasiness about adoption before talking to your child about it.

IFEATU (not real name), 16, and in senior secondary school 2, suddenly discovered that she was pregnant for her trader boyfriend, Obinna. When she informed Obinna of the development, he warned her not to associate him with such a thing because he had just been released by his master after six of years apprenticeship and was just settling down to nurture his own business and therefore did not want any distraction. Afraid of telling her parents of her predicament, Ifeatu confided in her school mate who agreed to take her somewhere her problem could be solved.

When 25-year-old Emmanuel Victor, an indigene of Opubo Nkoro in Rivers State, left home for church in the morning of October 16, 2011 with his mother and siblings, there was no inkling he would not return home.

“I was rushed to the Mother and Child Hospital in a critical condition after prolonged obstructed labour. My family had spent all resources to save my life. I was abandoned by my husband in the midst of the challenge.”

Respect is when you regard someone as important and you are careful not to harm or treat him rudely. Children are born with senses and abilities albeit directionless. No one teaches a baby her behavioral patterns or helps a child attain the various milestones of development. Toddlers do not watch wrestling to acquire innate abilities to challenge their siblings to routine contests and fights where punches, bites and kicks come in handy as inherent defense mechanisms. “A 3-year-old toddler’s brain is twice as active as an adult’s brain”, says family science specialist Sean Brotherson.

The Bayelsa State special security outfit, Operation Famou Tangbe (OFT), may have been proscribed by the police but this well-kitted and highly motivated outfit will remain evergreen in the minds of the people.