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Getty Images There are about 1.8 billion young people in the world today, and they make up 1/3rd of the world’s population. Every year, 14-16 million young girls aged 15-19 give birth, and pregnancy related deaths are the leading cause of death for a girl this age. Question of the Week: Do you think young…

Earlier today, I was watching this Nigerian Home video -not because I was enjoying it but because I heard some ladies at the Spa-you know ladies, when two or three are gathered, gossip is surely in their midst-arguing about a scene in the home video and crazy me, bought the DVD and decided to watch…

Hurray!!! Safe Motherhood celebration. The Theme for this year’s National Safe Motherhood Day Commemoration is “Investing in Safe Motherhood for National Development” and the slogan is “Pregnancy is special, let’s make it safe”. The Federal Ministry of Health is partnering with the Centre for Development and Population Activities to mark the day. According to Mr Gabriel…

The United Nations Secretary- General has stressed the need to provide reproductive health care for young people, as well as give them access to the necessary information and the means to protect themselves from sexual abuse and violence. We cannot ignore the fact many young people are sexually active. A visit to the rural areas…

Getty Images JayneWhyte: Good morning, AuntySchool Teacher: “Aaaah Good morning Madam, Welcome ooh!”….. (in her usual happy self).JayneWhyte: Isy is a big boy now oo and i would like to inform you that i have started potty training him (Isy is my son, it has been difficult trying to potty train him and i was…

This morning, dressing up for work was not so easy, looked at myself in the mirror and the mirror tells me “madam you are getiing older ooo, hmmm kpele! but  you will soon be adding another year ooo very soon,  infact next week!”  My mirror has never lied to me, but the fact that i…

(CNN) — On average, 18 people in the United States die each day waiting for an organ transplant. Billionaire Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg wants to change that. He announced Tuesday that the social networking site wants to “help solve the crisis” by allowing users to volunteer as potential organ donors in the United States and the…

I have been thinking seriously what people think about names and why some parents give their children some “funny” names. It is really funny when you hear some English names like ‘Courage” (reminds me of courage the cowardly dog  on cartoon network),” Independence” (must the person always remind others that 1st of October is independence…

The nation’s banking industry, has once again, downsized its workforce by 550, raising the number of disengaged workers in the sector to about 3,000 in recent months. specifically only Finbank employees were involved in this latest exercise, under the integration scheme of the two merging financial institutions. FCMB has earlier laid off 320 members of…

Dear Diary (JayneWhyte), About Me!My name is Suonye Jacob Bara, I am a native of Nkoro, Rivers state. I work for a Non-Governmental Organisation. I got married to the love of my life Agnes last year and I am indeed happily married. My wife and I are expecting our first child and we are really excited…