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| A group of Ukrainian refugees arrives at Przemysl station in Poland. Photograph: Europa Press/Getty Images |
Ukrainians do not want to flee. They do not want to pack their lives into a suitcase. They do not want to crowd aboard packed trains that carry them away from their homes, or trudge for days with their children. They do not want to leave behind husbands and sons and parents. They do not want to begin again in a foreign country where they have nothing, far from those they love.
Veteran entertainer, Onyeka Onwenu has opened up about her marriage, raising children, her career and other issues as she clocked 70, Punch Newspaper reports.
In an interview with Kikelomo Atanda-Owo on her show “Real Talk with Kike.", the Elegant Stallion as she’s fondly called revealed that her husband never paid for their children’s school fees from kindergarten up to master’s level.
According to the report, Onyeka added that she never really wanted her marriage to end but that the marriage would have killed her if she didn’t leave.
A non-profit organisation, African Wonder Women Organisation (AWWO), is set to challenge what it described as the stereotypes and injustices allegedly meted out against African widows, both on the continent and the diaspora.
The convener, Folaji Fasanya-Omoyeni, told PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday that she aims to improve relationships and encourage women to speak up against stigma, stereotypes, and biases through the event they experience.
She said the group plans to hold a virtual event on the subject with the theme; “Every Emotion is Valid” and is scheduled to hold on February 12, 2022.
Mrs Fasanya-Omoyeni said AWWO was birthed following the loss of her husband at the onset of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
Monday 24th to Wednesday 26th of January, 2022, Lux Terra Leadership Foundation in conjunction with the Islamic Education Trust, hosted a 3-day workshop for 25 teaching and administrative staff of the International Islamic Academy, Madala, Niger State, who play critical roles in the character formation of the students.
The workshop which held at the Lux Terra complex in Apo, Abuja, and whose theme is "Intensifying the Campaign for Greater Integrity in Nigeria", was aimed at reviewing methodologies and developing creatively new strategies for making the school a center of excellence in character formation, and a model for other schools around to emulate. It is designed to help participants acquire new tools and skills for more effective mentoring of the secondary school students in the life of integrity.
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Relationship expert, Blessing Nkiruka Okoro popularly known as Blessing CEO has opened up on in favour of the womenfolk on how a female can use “SEXxxxxxx to Trap any kind of Man”.
Even as the medical community grapples with how best to provide care to transgender adolescents, some states seek to ban it outright.
Zara Banks, 14, near her family home in Fayetteville, Ark. Last spring, Arkansas enacted the first law in the nation barring physicians from administering hormones or puberty blockers to transgender people younger than 18. The law is on hold pending a legal challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union.Credit...Liz Sanders for The New York Times
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — For years, Zara
Banks had been looking forward to her 14th birthday — the moment, last June,
when her life would no longer be on pause.
Ever since Zara, a transgender girl, was 8, she has been certain she wanted to grow up to be a woman. After conversations with her parents and sessions with a therapist, she began transitioning socially: changing her name to Zara and pronouns to she/her. When she turned 9, she began treatment with puberty blockers, drugs that would place her physiological development in limbo until she was old enough — 14 according to her doctor — to begin estrogen therapy and develop a feminine body.
But last spring Arkansas enacted a law, the first of its kind in the nation, barring physicians from administering hormones or puberty blockers to transgender people younger than 18. The bill, called the Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act, overrode a veto by Gov. Asa Hutchinson and was to go into effect on July 28, about a month after Zara’s birthday. It is now on pause because of a legal challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union.
Zara has been able to get hormones while the court case proceeds, but worries about what the future holds. “I was just really happy, after finally waiting so long, to get something that I’ve needed for a very long time,” she said, sitting in her suburban backyard with her parents, Jasmine and Mo Banks, amid buzzing cicadas.
Nigeria will receive no fewer than 1,030 Benin artefacts from Germany in 2022, the Director-General, National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), Abba Tijani, has said.
Mr Tijani, a professor, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan on Tuesday that many artefacts had been received from Germany but the commission would receive at least an additional 1, 030 in 2022.
Premium Times reports that the objects were taken from the country during the punitive expedition of Benin in 1897.
Capping off Milan men's fashion week, sportswear brand @kway_official held its first live runway show since the pandemic began. Dubbed as their R&D label, the collection features a more colorful and hip silhouette that caters to a modern and contemporary audience.
Nigerian comedian Ayo Makun and his wife have welcomed their second child.
The baby is coming 13 years after their first and the lucky father while praising God for the new addition to his family said "Our prayers in the last 13 years have been answered. Ayomide, thank you for making Mabel and I mummy and daddy again."
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A report by Arise News submits that the Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party have questioned the management of Nigeria's oil and gas resources by the Federal Government.
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Airline executives have warned that the new 5G service could cause “catastrophic disruption” to aviation industry.
According to ABC News report, the 10 biggest US airlines have warned that the impending switch-on of 5G mobile networks will cause "major disruption" to flights.
They said the start of Verizon and AT&T 5G mobile phone services, planned for Wednesday, would cause a "completely avoidable economic calamity".
