President Yaradua’s illness exposed the weakness of our democracy. Its management unnecessarily stressed the polity and exposed Nigeria to ridicule. The hide-and-seek about presidential illness encouraged international media to create the impression that Nigeria was North Korea or Nepal, kingdoms where the leader is the state.

We need to engage political parties and the government because generally there came the national gender policy declaring 35% affirmative action for women. But since then, nothing has happened. We also need to engage them (political parties and govt.) from the middle point of view; we need to sue them and do a whole lot of multifaceted things to bring out our voice.

PROFESSOR A.B.C NWOSU served as political adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo and later as minister of health under the same administration.

For long, it was often identified with different a number of derogatory names, the most common being ‘Guguru Defence’. In spite of the fact that the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, prides itself as having recorded remarkable achievements over the years, the organisation is still being regarded in many quarters as a mere idle band of volunteer ex-service men and expired members of the once revered Boy Scouts bent on seeking relevance.

“Nurse, I’ve tried several times, but there’s no milk flowing, my nipple has become very sore, and my baby is very hungry,” protested Maisie. “Can’t he have the formula?”

The recent uproar in the financial sector where a large number of people lost their jobs and means of livelihood, has further brought to the fore, the grave need to be self employed, independent and self reliant.

By Helen Ovbiagele, Woman Editor “Look Helen,” whispered a friend to me at her friend’s private school’s end of term and prize-giving day ceremony, “I can’t bear it anymore.

Madam, husbands that beat up their wives or abuse them verbally, are simply mad. They are crazy, because they tend to forget that their wives bear and nurture their children, cook for them, wash their clothes, keep their houses clean and keep them warm on their beds. This sort of men should be detained in Psychiatric hospitals until they are cured of their madness and finally jailed for assault and battery, to serve as a deterrent to others.
—Ifeka Okonkwo’

FROM my modest academic background in communication studies, and perhaps more importantly, from my more than two decades in book marketing and more recently, complex engineering laboratories equipment to engineering faculties, I can authoritatively assert that when a product is well packaged or has a Unique Selling Preposition (USP), the job of the professional marketers becomes a matter of routine.

Whatever people may think, feel or say, the name Mrs Maryam Babangida is firmly entrenched in the history of Nigeria, and for many decades to come, it will remain on the list of the eminent Nigerian women who did their best to raise the status of the Nigerian woman. How? For making the elevation of the Nigerian woman her principal project, throughout her tenure as the First Lady of Nigeria.