Being Physically Challenged is Challenging. Each time I entered a chamber, they looked at me, and the next answer was, “there is no vacancy” – Bar Chinenye This week, on Inspirational Personality page, we have the touching but inspiring life story of a physically challenged legal luminary, who has shunned what life has thrown at […]
THRIVE I heard about your aching concerns, I felt the beats of your heart, I saw you blinking back tears behind those shades and I perceived your fears behind your fragrance.. Friends, I’m excited. particularly because, I’m ready to help someone through the journey of thriving, against all odds. I wrote this letter to you! […]
♥ It is World Menstrual Hygiene Day. And the theme for this year’s celebration is “Menstruation in Pandemic ” Almost 300 million of the world’s population who are women are of the menstrual age. But just a few of them have access to sanitary pads. Some don’t even know what sanitary pads are not to […]
I never knew what it meant to live with a person suffering with Sickle Cell disorder till recently, when I began to live with one. The pain they go through is better imagined than experienced. Some feel out of place and totally rejected in the world. 19th June of every year is World Sickle Cell […]
Just recently, I had to make three important trips, one was to attend a conference in Uyo, another was to attend the Goge Africa training for young writers and entrepreneurs in Lagos, I also would have completed the first half of my Post graduate course and most importantly was my induction into the Nigeria Institute […]
If you are in the month of February, there comes a day celebrated for love and that day is Valentine’s Day. If you only wait for this day to come so that you can show love to people, you are missing a part of life that should be valued for more than once yearly. The […]
On the first day of the first month of the year 1970, when the Nigeria Civil War raged on through the country and men lived in fear, a young couple sneaked their way on foot to the church, to be joined in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. They called it their first wedding. There were […]
I remember while growing up, Mummy will come back from the market with goodies of puff-puff and others. She will hand it over to me as the youngest then. There is one instruction that she always gave then and I have failed to forget; “baby share it with them”. I remember I always refuse to […]
The future of every nation, they say, lies with the youths. A nation that invests in her youths invests in her future and a man who builds the youths builds the nation. Such is the role of teachers who impact knowledge and good natured character in youths for a better tomorrow. In this edition we […]
Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there, to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson, or to help you figure out who you are or who you want to become. You never know who these people may be (possibly your roommate, neighbor, […]