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Many at times, we get let down, disappointed, sad and feel unwanted by the very people we have trusted, shown our love, affectations, helped and supported over the years. You may have trusted some people, gave your loyalty to them and thought they were your sugar in your tea and butter on your bread. These people could be your family members, husband, wife, children, or extended family members. Sometimes; it could even be our work colleagues, school mate and church members or pastor or ministers who have mistreated and behaved unkindly to you. These types of disappointments happen all the time especially with those we have made our vows to, or promised to love and live the rest of our lives with. In fact, could seriously be your partner who has disappointed and let you down. He or she...

Saving Nigerians from Hepatitis as Nigeria joins the rest of the world to mark World Hepatitis Day, Martins Ifijeh writes on the role of stakeholders in addressing the silent killer in the country While most countries, including Nigeria, put more premium on tackling the Human Immuno Virus and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) and other known global health concerns, little is being done to address Hepatitis, a relatively unknown disease, which infects 50 to 100 times more than HIV/AIDS and most other global health issues. Statistics by the World Health Organisation (WHO) show that about 28 per cent of the 7.4 billion persons worldwide are infected with Hepatitis, which means almost two billion people are at one point or the other positive to the disease, while over ...

She is gradually carving a niche for herself. Ayanfeoluwa Lawal, CEO of Quints Diction and Social Polish Academy, is becoming an authority on etiquette. Within a few months, she has built a stream of Ivy league clients, as her services have become much sought after by highbrow secondary schools across Lagos State. The clergy are not left out of the teeming number of professionals who contact her in a bid to project a positive image through public speaking. For Lawal, a trained broadcaster turned diction coach, her newfound love was borne out of her passion to see a transformed society through public speaking. Lawal is a passionate and creative professional with valuable experience in broadcast journalism spanning over a decade. She has traversed the whole gamut of vocations on radi...

As I walked to drop the children to school this morning, I heard this statement in my statement. “Don’t divorce your purpose in life to marry fear” Wow… this actual made me to think twice about my purpose in life. Many a time in life, we abandon or divorce our purposes in the face of fear of others feelings and reactions towards us. We live our purpose behind to marry or carry other people’s purpose for their life. If cheating is not permitted in any relationship so to say, why do we cheat on our purpose with other’s purpose? There is a purpose on each and every one of us and it is about time, we step into that purpose in order to fulfill it. Supporting others to achieve their purpose does not permit you to divorce your purpose in life. Many a time, we are faced with the chall...

Have you ever heard of the name, Olanrewaju Kassim before? Have you heard of SHOKAS Lace Industry in Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State? Do you remember that evergreen album done by King Sunny Ade in the 80s in which he praise-sang the owner of SHOKAS industry in Ijebu-Igbo, who lives inside a sprawling and undulating estate in his hometown where he built Bobagunwa Castle? If all these do not ring a bell in your ears then this story is not meant for you. This is because Alhaji (Oloye) Dr. Shakirudeen Olanrewaju Kasssim is one of the pioneer industrialists in Nigeria, especially in the Textile sector of the economy. He is one man who pulled himself by the boot straps to rise to the top. After doing a lot of petty trading and hawking textile with his mum when he was young he moved into the big busine...

Hundreds of thousands of whites left South Africa following the ANC's landslide election victory in 1994. Twenty years on, the exodus shows signs of slowing, even reversing. Jane Flanagan spoke to some of those who have returned. Nicky and Craig Irving spent five years in Australia before moving back to Cape Town with their three daughters. They were among the last members of their respective families to emigrate amid fears over the crime wave that swept South Africa during the 1990s. "The challenge to us from our relatives who had left was 'How can you raise your children in a country that is so violent and has no future'," Mrs Irving recalls. "Our girls were 10, seven and nearly one at the time. We felt vulnerable living in South Africa, so leaving seemed the obvious thing to d...

African Australians haven’t been here long enough to create a big sub-culture, but that’s no reason for discussions around race to stop at Islamaphobia‘While the ignorant stereotyping and homogenisation of Africa is a global issue, I have always felt that Australians are especially clueless about the continent.’ Picture: African mural in Newtown, Sydney. Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian As an Aussie-born Ethiopian, the first kind of micro-aggression I ever came across was the ignorance people here have about my background. During my first few years of school many teachers and students enquired about where I was from and my answers were met with responses such as: “Ethiopia, where’s that?”, “Did your parents come here because they were starving back in Africa?”, and – my personal f...

Taylor Swift has a certain attachment to the number 1989–it’s the year of her birth, the title of her latest multiplatinum album and the name of her record-smashing tour. She may soon have a new favorite: 170 million. That’s the number of dollars she raked in over the past year, easily enough to land her the No. 1 spot on the FORBES Celebrity 100 list of the world’s highest-paid entertainers. Swift owes much of her payday to the aforementioned 1989 World Tour. Selling out stadiums to the tune of some $5 million per night in ticket sales, the pop superstar smashed the Rolling Stones’ North American touring record, grossing $200 million on the continent en route to a total of a quarter of a billion dollars for the tour. The singer also shills for brands including Diet Coke, Keds and App...

The over 1 billion daily active users on Facebook, Twitter, WeChat, Skype andTelegram can now experience the ease of performing their financial transactions directly from these platforms with the aid of the recently introduced solution,ChatPay. Gbenga Adams, Chief Evangelist of ChatPay described the platform as a fusion of advancement in robotics and artificial intelligence to create a unique and very personal experience in managing finances. “Think of ChatPay as your personal financial assistant and this is why we’ve named her ‘Kiki’. She will help you run all your financial errands which include transfer of funds to any bank in Nigeria, purchase of airtime, payment of your utility bills, hotel, flight tickets and much more. Kiki will help you find the closest ATM should you need direct...

I have heard this said several times that, “life is not a race”. Well, I stand to differ. To achieve something in life, one must learn to pursue that very thing. You can never achieve great success in life by standing idle and expect that thing to run to you. Success and failure have no legs or wings to fly towards our directions. This means that we must get out of our comfort zone to run after the things we want or need so badly in life. Have you ever seen an athlete who won a medal by walking onto a track and standing aloof whiles others run to cross the finishing line? No. He or she gets ready mentally and physically to compete with other competitors or potential medalists in order to run pass the finishing line. He or she runs with a definite purpose to achieve a medal. Ti...