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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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| Blessing Nkiruka Okoro, Relationship Expert |
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".
Members of Nahuche community in the Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara State protested at the Government House in Gusau on Sunday over continuous killings and abductions by bandits in the community.
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Good morning.
We’re covering Omicron’s effect on the pandemic and the continuing costs of
Brexit. |
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| Dr. Anthony Fauci said the evolution of the pandemic was still unclear.Salvatore Di Nolfi/EPA, via Shutterstock |
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Will Omicron
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Speaking at the
online World Economic Forum, Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s top medical
adviser for Covid, said it was too soon to say how the Omicron variant would
change the course of the pandemic. The sheer volume of cases could have a
meaningful effect on collective immunity, he said, but the evolution of the
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“It is an open
question as to whether or not Omicron is going to be the live virus
vaccination that everyone is hoping for,” he said, adding: “That would only
be the case if we don’t get another variant that eludes the immune response.” |
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Cases remain
extremely high across the U.S., averaging nearly 802,000 per day, an increase
of 98 percent over the past two weeks. An average of nearly 156,000 people
with the virus are hospitalized nationwide, a record. Deaths now exceed 1,900
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Next steps: Dr. Fauci said the world was still in the first phase of the pandemic — “where the whole world is really very negatively impacted.” The next phases are deceleration, control, elimination and eradication. In the control phase, he said, the virus will become a “nondisruptive presence” and be considered endemic. |
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Nigeria's richest woman, Folorunso Alakija, on Friday, shared videos of her and other persons engaging in street evangelism in the Surulere area of Lagos, Punch Newspapers report.
According to the report, she and her fellow preachers were all dressed in yellow T-shirts with 'Perfect peace' written on them and blue turbans.
A Nigerian lawyer, bestselling author and human rights activist Reno Omokri via his Instagram page has dropped ‘men-folk’ a vital message.
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| Seyi Makinde, Oyo State Governor |
This morning, we worshipped at Living Spring Chapel International, Ibadan, to give thanks for God’s protection last year and to commit this year into His Hands. I appreciated Pastor Femi Emmanuel - the presiding pastor, and the rest of the congregation for their warm welcome.
Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde dropped the message via his Instagram page a few hours ago.
According to the message, the governor in his remarks during the occasion shared the rationale for some of the projects being carried out by his administration. He also thanked everyone for their prayers and support, and encouraged them to get involved in the political process to choose Nigeria’s next set of leaders as the 2023 elections approaches.
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Just a day ago Punch Newspapers brought us a report captioned “Meet Lagos Hawker Who Gave Money To Prison Inmates In Lagos Traffic”.
Today the same news media has updated the report with the caption “Viral Video: Obi Cubana to sponsor hawker to university”.
According to the earlier report, Ekuma Jeremiah, the hawker, who was caught on camera giving money to the occupants of a Nigerian Correctional Service bus in the area of Ajah, Lagos State, said he did it because he was concerned for them.
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| Queeneth Agbor, Nollywood Actor |
A report by Punch Newspapers submits that actress, Queeneth Agbor, has said that before she agrees to a kissing scene in a movie, certain things have to be put in place.
She told Saturday Beats, , according to the report that “The actor involved will determine if I will agree to a kissing scene in a movie. Having a good breath is very important to me and smelling nicely is also important.”
Asked if she had ever had a bad kissing experience while shooting a movie, she said, “An actor with bad breath actually wanted to make the kissing scene real even after we agreed to mime and it went really wrong because I couldn’t bear it. Trust me, mint couldn’t even help the situation. The director had to scrap the scene because I refused to put myself through such trauma.”, the report stated adding that Agbor finds it ‘annoying’ when celebrities fight on social media. She said, “I find it very stupid and annoying. Because when the going was good, I wasn’t invited. When the enjoyment goes wrong, they would want to scatter our eyes and ears with unnecessary information. Celebrities should not bring drama we won’t benefit from to social media this year.”
The national leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, on Saturday, paid a condolence visit to Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on the recent deaths of two prominent traditional rulers, the Soun of Ogbomoso, Jimoh Oyewumi; the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Saliu Adetunji and a former governor of Oyo, Adebayo Alao-Akala.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the former governor of Lagos State and some of his political associates visited Mr Makinde at the State Government House, Agodi in Ibadan.
SEB gathers that during the meet governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State expressed his believes in the country that it deserves to be led by its best hands as the nation inches closer to the 2023 general elections.
Stumbled on this story from Punch Newspapers IG page about Peter Obi replying to a tweet allegedly directed at him.
According to the story Obi tells the man asking him to run for presidency that he does not have money for court case.
The report states further that former
governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi has told a tweep, tweet he doesn't have
money to fund a court case if sued.
American singer and songwriter, Lady Gaga went full glam to virtually receive her House of Gucci award. The superstar took to Instagram to thank the Palm Springs International Film Awards for giving her their Icon Award for her performance as Patrizia Reggiani:
The police in Delta state have arrested a 26-year old man Paul Ogilo for allegedly killing a 29-old man, Twere Shipiode in Otu-Jeremi community in Ughelli South Local government area after the two men were involved in fight, TVC News reports.
According to the report, the Delta police command Public relations officer, Bright Edafe, in a statement says the police, acting on intelligence after receiving a distress call about incident, the suspect was trailed to an uncompleted building in Otu-Jeremi where he was seen with a kitchen knife suspected to have been used in committing the crime and he was immediately arrested.
Top rated Canadian singer, Celine Dion posts a heartbreaking tribute to her late husband
I would be lying if I said I’m fine, I think of you at least a hundred times, cause in the echo of my voice I hear your words just like you’re there… I miss you – Céline xx…
