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International Women’s Day, 2014; No Dullin’
Hurray!!! International Women’s Day is almost here…valentine’s gone and another day to receive gifts for being a woman is almost here. Yaaaayyy…..men must be very jealous! On IWD, we celebrate women, equality, gains and achievements. Women’s equality has made positive gains but the world is still unequal. International Women’s Day celebrates the social, political and economic…
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Child Nutrition; finger food for children (Masa)
As your baby develops better finger control (usually around 7-8 months) introducing finger foods will help to develop the skills of biting, chewing and self-feeding. Finger foods should be easy to pick up, hold and should not have bones or seeds (pips). You should also avoid hard foods or very small items like groundnut until…
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IMMUNIZATION; A MUST FOR EVERY CHILD.
For most mothers in developing countries, ante-natal visits, post-natal visits and immunization visits are usually very cumbersome, tiring and not very friendly. This is because there are very few affordable hospitals, few health workers, lots of mothers and babies to attend to and selected days for services to be provided to this huge number of…
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Child Nutrition; How to make guinea corn and millet paste
Whyte’s photos It is unfortunate that many new moms struggle really hard in providing safe meals for their family. The right food to cook, the right quantity and also the right time; whether breakfast, lunch and dinner is always a challenge for moms not just in Nigeria but in other parts of the world and;…
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CHOCOLATES FOR KIDS; YES OR NO?
I am grateful that I am not addicted to anything but I could say I love chocolates. The milky chocolates with almonds are my favorite and I am not usually ashamed to tell friends when ever they are travelling that they should buy a bag of chocolate as a gift to me. A huge hug and a big…
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Me and my natural hair (Pt 2).
I have been a devoted naturalista and it’s been good…so far, so good. I feel cleaner and less worried about my hair breaking and relaxers burning my scalp and so on. But I still find it difficult just wearing my natural hair just like that without braids or hair extensions. To take off all the…
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#iwearorange;ORANGE YOUR WORLD, I JUST DID.
#iwearorangebecause of the violence in so many parts of the world; Syria, Nigeria, Pakistan, Libya, Egypt. #iwearorangebecause of the women and girls in these warring areas. They are raped, beaten and abandoned to die because they are helpless and have no one to turn to; not even the laws of the land can get them…
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1 Billion Rising; The time is now!
Today I join millions of advocates to say to domestic violence. It is absurd and appalling that millions of women suffer violence every day. Women are beaten, raped, slaughtered like animals, called all sorts of names, suffer injustice and the world keeps moving…..how?She has the same chance to succeed as you and you let her…
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ANCIENT AND MODERN SUNDAY SPECIAL
This morning, I found myself humming to the tune of this hymn and only then did I realize that it is not just a song but a very inspiring and ‘healing’ hymn. The words tell me who we are and not who we want to be….celebrity, whitenicious, president, Forbes richest, Billionaire heir/heiress…….God promised us that…
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WHAT KOMLA TAUGHT ME
It been days now that I woke up to this sad news; vibrant BBC Focus on Africa presenter Komla Dumor had died in his home in London precisely on January 18, 2014. He was just 41…..really sad. A lot about life…. who we are, what we are and what we should do with our lives…
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