The African Union/Diaspora African Forum (AU/DAF), in collaboration with the Republic of South Africa, African Union Commission and NEPAD Planning and Coordination Agency on Friday, June 12, 2015, hosted an awards banquet in line with the 25th African Union Summit Theme for 2015: “Year of Women Empowerment and Development Towards Africa’s Agenda 2063.” The event was co-chaired by South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Mashabane and Ambassador Dr. Erieka Bennett. The African Women of Excellence Award Ceremony and Dinner was held during the 25th Ordinary Session of African Union Heads of States and Government at the Michelangelo…
Author: Pride Team
My hand began to tremble involuntarily and I cursed myself. How could a human being I hadn’t seen in how long have this terrible effect on me? My eyes were glued to the phone as it rang out. The caller ID had no name; it was just his number which Ronke had deleted when she realized I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I didn’t need to tell her that I had the number carved into my brain, that even if she deleted it a million times, I wouldn’t forget the double twos and the zeros at the end of…
My Son, I was moved by something I read in Genevieve magazine written by the editor and titled – “Losing My Dad.” And it went thus: “Last year I lost my father. I didn’t know he was sick until he called. We hadn’t stayed in touch for a long time which wasn’t unusual; not because we held a grudge towards each other (of course we’ve had our issues), but because we had some how grown apart over the years, even though we shared the same birthday. We asked him to come over, so we could take him to do necessary…
Chief Mrs. Anyiam-Osigwe OON presenting her Living Legend Award Trophy to President President Muhammadu Buhari at a reception at the Nigerian Embassy in South Africa. Chief Anyiam-Osigwe was one of the African Union LIVING LEGEND awardees. She was among the five recipients so honoured along side former president of Malawi Joyce Banda, Ellen Johnson Serlief, President of Liberia and the first female Head of State on the African continent, Dhlamini Zuma, Current African Union Chairperson, and Winnie Mandela, South African antiapartheid heroine and wife of former President of South African President Nelson Mandela. Chief Mrs. Dorothy Chinyere Anyiam-Osigwe started off…
Dear Dorothy, My wife and I have been married for a little over three years, but have been together for about seven years. A few months after we started dating I met a friend of hers, a man whom she introduced as an uncle. She said it was his generosity that helped her through the university. At first I had no reason to doubt her introduction, as he was more than twice her age and married. You can imagine my shock after three years of marriage when I discovered that the so-called uncle was her sugar daddy. Of course I…
I heard a friend say yoga is one good way to improve one’s sex life and I went digging and if you are wondering what the connection is, you are not alone. Many women habitually think that there can’t be a connection there. Well, here are my findings. Exercise and sex often aren’t two activities that are used in the same sentence but the art of yoga relies on body awareness, body movement, and breathing. Many experts claim that these three components are important to having healthy intimacy levels and when you have better body awareness, you are more likely…
Remember, Sex and the City? Samantha was still steaming hot even when she was fifty. What was her secret? Do you wake in the morning, look in the mirror and then dread your looks? That’s not healthy. Always wake up to a relaxing full-body stretch and yawn unapologetically. Smile afterwards. If sustaining a youthful state-of-mind was as easy as that, everybody could just wake up to a good mood. Well, that can be a start. However, staying youthful means more than just those fancy chemicals advertised on TV promising you a “youthful glow” after seven days or so but if…
Monday morning has never been taken with ease and opulence but here’s a soothing way to make merry your Monday. You know, when most people think of love poems, they think of serious and soulful expressions of passion. Long sonnets by Shakespeare or romantic poems by Browning and Lord Byron are the norm for love poetry. However, funny love poems can be good for a laugh. They may not be romantic, but they do give your friends something to enjoy. Some of the best funny love poems are limericks. Limericks started in Ireland and follow a standard form of five…
Airtel, the Smart Phone network has also been bitten by the endorsement bug from all indications, which probably birthed its unveiling of five top Nigerian entertainers recently. Leading the pack is, highly rated musician, 2face Idibia, followed by Phyno, Patoranking, comedian Akpororo and OAP, Ik Osakioduwa. The deal we heard is worth quit a fortune, even though the real figures were not made public. Airtel is a leading telecoms company in Nigeria with data plans that a quite favourable to smart phone users. They have millions of loyal subscribers around the world and have not been doing badly. xosotin chelseathông…
Celebrity On Air Personality with Rhythm FM, Toke Makinwa may have joined the bandwagon of celebrities with failed marriages going by the information circulating on social media in the last 48hours. Although the gist is not yet affirmative and subject to scrutiny, but there are strong indications that the marriage had hit the rock over accusations of infidelity from her fitness trainer hubby, Maje Ayide. Reports claimed that Toke’s hubby, Maje Ayida allegedly got his ex-girlfriend, a girl based in Calabar named Anita Solomon, pregnant and she’s off to the UK to deliver the child. Toke got married to fitness Coach, Maje…