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A young man, Mr. Lawrence Ette, has been accused of stoning his 23-year-old girlfriend, Miss Rosaline Christopher, to death. The tragedy was said to have occurred penultimate Sunday at 13, Academy Street, Calabar, Cross River State. An eyewitness, who is the landlady of the deceased, Miss Dorothy Bassey, said Rosaline had a brawl with her…

FAMILY PLANNING SUMMIT LONDON The Government of Nigeria commits to increasing contraception prevalence rate to 38% by 2018 as part of Nigeria’s commitment to save 100 million lives by 2018. The Government of Nigeria will increase spending from US $3 million annually to $ 8.5 million- a total of $33.4 million on family planning services by…

This is my first post on ‘Thankful Thursday’.It’s amazing how time flies. The other day as a child, I was cooking vegetable soup in a rusted tin tomato tin and had sand as eba and grasses as vegetables and now I cook real meals, the kind you eat and will almost eat your fingers  in…

On World Population Day, which is today (Happy World Population Day!!!) July 11, 2012, the U.K. Government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will host the ground breaking London Summit on Family Planning. The summit calls for unprecedented international political commitment and resources to transform the lives of millions of women and girls  in the…

It is always an interesting topic to talk about sex but what makes it interesting, for me?…I don’t really know….but for you maybe you should tell me. Are young people getting the right messages? Are we getting the NOD that things are okay the way they are?.I have been inspired to write this because today, I met…

Religious leaders, human rights activists and opposition politicians yesterday faulted President Jonathan’s plan to introduce a birth control law, saying it was an admission of failure of his government. Jonathan on Tuesday said while inaugurating a new board of the National Population Commission that the nation needed a law to control population growth, which he…

Imagine this situations;You are a Nurse in one of the health facilities, you are struggling to inject a young child (you know how challenging it is to get a child to take an injection) and then you succeed and you are just about to dispose the needle, the needle pricks your finger then you are…

Jada pinkett-Smith         Getty Images Jada has recently teamed up with “Don’t sell bodies” Campaign to raise awareness on the exploitation and sex trafficking of women and children all over the world, which I think is amazing. Her daughter, Willow (after watching the movie, Kony 2012…….I would love to watch it……the film…

Well, this is The Other side of motherhood Part Three;After my experience with Isy’s school teacher the other day, I made Isy a promise that things were going to change and it was going to be “Fast and Furious”……..whatever that meant……things must change!. I got home that afternoon, washed the potty and it shone so…

Photographs showing the amazing strength and courage of a woman who has beaten cancer have been removed by Facebook for being ‘pornography’. Mother-of-two Joanne Jackson, 40, had a photo session to commemorate winning her battle with the killer disease after having a mastectomy – and posted them on the social networking site. But Facebook removed some of the…