Our Woman Of The Month of November is Ivie Adidi. She is a seasoned development economist, with a passion for youth and gender development in Africa. She is a champion of women’s rights in Africa and uses her platform to advocate for marginalized populations in society. Ivie currently works as a financial and training expert in the Statistics Department of the African Development Bank (AfDB), where she has pioneered initiatives that promote the field of statistics and data science to young Africans across the continent. She has held several other positions in the AfDB over the past six years, and…
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Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology Most Americans who get married today believe they are choosing their own partners after falling in love with them. Arranged marriages, which remain common in some parts of the world, are a rarity here. But while doing research about arranged marriages, I’ve made a surprising observation: These seemingly different kinds of matrimony may be beginning to converge. Couples who ostensibly marry after spontaneously falling in love increasingly do that with some help from online dating services or after meeting through hookup apps. And modern arranged marriages – including my own – are becoming…
Veteran comic actor, John Witherspoon who is popular for his role in the “Friday” franchise and “The Tracy Morgan Show”, has passed on at age 77. He died at his home yesterday, Tuesday. The announcement which was made by his family via a statement, read: “It is with deep sadness we have to tweet this, but our husband & father John Witherspoon has passed away. He was a Legend in the entertainment industry, and a father figure to all who watched him over the years. We love you “POPS” always & forever” It is with deep sadness we have to tweet this, but our husband…
The widely anticipated fashion event, Lagos Fashion Week 2019, concluded last weekend. The four days event which has expanded to one of the formidable and extensively talked about fashion shows within Africa – thereby putting Lagos on the fashion map of the world – has an intelligent and foresighted woman, Omoyemi Akerele, at its helm. Today, she’s our Woman Crush Wednesday. As the creative and managing director of Stylehouse Files, a creative development agency for Nigerian and African designers, Akerele has expanded the vision and opportunities of fashion designers within the continent, giving them proper placement in the international market…
Brenda Wingfield, University of Pretoria I am regularly asked how I have managed to juggle the demands of a family and a career in science. The short answer to the question is ‘with difficulty’ and while this is the easy truthful answer, it does not really help to guide women grappling with the problem. I should include men in this equation as these issues should be as important to women as they are to their life partners. But my focus is as a mother and my suggestions are from a personal perspective. The first and most important advice I can…
Greg Putnam, University of North Carolina Wilmington WeWork went from unicorn darling with a nearly US$50 billion valuation to a cautionary tale for gullible investors worth just $8 billion in a matter of months. It did so in part by wrapping its real estate sublet business in the cloak of a tech startup destined to “change the world.” Were investors like SoftBank and JPMorgan duped by the hype of a charismatic founder, as happened with Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos? As a lecturer in finance and someone who managed investments for 20 years, I believe that there was some of that,…
Oludayo Tade, University of Ibadan Hiring domestic servants is a common phenomenon in Nigeria. More often than not this involves vulnerable children being made to work as live-in domestic servants mostly in middle class urban households. Researchers have investigated what creates the supply of child labour, but few have attempted to understand the demand. My research produced some pointers to why households use children as servants. This is why I chose to investigate factors that propel demand for domestic servants in Oyo State, southwest Nigeria. Oyo State is known as a hot-spot for child trafficking – as source, transit and…
American artist, Kanye West isn’t slowing down with the gospel of Jesus Christ just yet. In a new interview with Zane Lowe on Apple music’s Beats 1, Kanye West who revealed that he is going to run for United States president someday said: “Now that I’m in service to Christ, my job is to spread the gospel, to let people know what Jesus has done for me, I’ve spread a lot of things. There was a time I was letting you know what high fashion had done for me, I was letting you know what the Hennessy had done for…
Not in my backyard, yet. Leftover ruins shell by shell Impunious mounds pile by pile Deserted streets As tribes decrease piece by piece Izge weeps First hit by camped scorn Chibok mourns daughters She may never again see Haram in Higi As Margi are displaced within walls of own home Lodestone hatred rapidly spreading Like cattle of normadic descent Ubiquitous terror Fly incessant by night sky Across Biu, Shani and Hawul Buratai is without walls! Orphaned amputees of land mines Of warlike cause Litter like lush lands Hurriedly emptied out Numb-nimby To nebulous cries East-west…
Reading 1 Lv 23:1, 4-11, 15-16, 27, 34b-37 The LORD said to Moses, “These are the festivals of the LORD which you shall celebrate at their proper time with a sacred assembly. The Passover of the LORD falls on the fourteenth day of the first month, at the evening twilight. The fifteenth day of this month is the LORD’s feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first of these days you shall hold a sacred assembly and do no sort of work. On each of the seven days you shall offer an oblation…