The founder and general overseer of Christ Royal Family International Church, Bishop (Dr.) Tom Samson, has embarked on a project aimed at alleviating poverty among women in Iyesin Otta, Ogun State. The initiative witnessed over 150 women as first set of beneficiaries recently at Royal City College of Education premises. The highly successful and enigmatic preacher is a giver; little wonder God never seized blessing him. The founder of Royal City College of Education and Monarch University, took his philanthropy to another level with his Tom Samson Foundation by embarking on a hugely successful women empowerment program in his 100…
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Nigeria faces one of the largest burdens of micro-nutrient deficiencies, with anaemia the most common with a big impact on health of women and children, the Nutrition Society of Nigeria, NSN, have disclosed. Specifically, 49 per cent of women of reproductive age have anaemia, 24.3 per cent have low iron stores and 12.7 per cent of them are iron deficient. These figures indicate that majority of the adolescent girls and women did not meet the iron requirements of 20 milligrams per day as recommended by the Food and Agricultural Organisation and, the World Health Organisation. Iron deficiency anaemia is a…
Everything is now ready for the long talked about 5th Anniversary Celebration of the approval of Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) as the nation’s sole collective management organization for musical works and sound recordings. The big Nigerian music industry is expected to congregate at the Banquet Hall of Lagos Airport Hotel Ikeja on Wednesday, May 20 to wine and dine and give praise to the Almighty for the survival and continuing strength of the organization that has become a reference point in the promotion and defence of intellectual property rights in Nigeria. One on the highlights of the event will…
About 20 years after celebrity journalist, Bashorun Dele Momodu launched Ovation Magazine, Nigeria’s first Pan African celebrity magazine, all is set for the launch of Ovation TV, going by the reliable information at our disposal. Momodu, popularly called Bob Dee announced the coming of the television on Saturday, 9 May via his popular weekly column on ThisDay, Pendulum. “…The big news for now is that after publishing the Ovation International magazine for nearly two decades, we have decided to venture seriously into television. The decision is not fortuitous but something that has been meticulously worked at for over a decade,”…
The real reason behind the fierce battle between two Peoples Democratic Party heavy weights, Governor Ayo Fayose and the party’s national Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu may have surfaced after all. Speaking at an interview with Channels Television earlier in the day, Gov. Fayose said five days to the presidential election he went to visit PDP National Chairman Adamu Mu’azu in his office, and met him frolicking with All Progressives congress, APC Chieftain, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Already, PDP party faithfuls and top notches are calling for the instant resignation of Mu’azu, an option the later is not ready to take. Recall…
Award winning film Director George Kelly and veteran Nollywood Director Chucks Mordi have once again team up to make yet another great movie THE LOWER CUT, a film on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The movie, according the owners will be premiered at the Odeon Cinema, Greenwich on Friday the 24th of July 2015. Stars of the movie include Toplis Chioma, Gift Boyo, new acting sensation Lola-Dami Hannah Aina aka Lola MK, Bookie Anifowose, Charles Efe Lawson, Olukite King, Rimca Karmakar, Kevwe Ogunje, Jedidah David, Daisy Alero Emoekabu, Banke Afun-Ogidan, ,Akinshola and George Kelly as the academic “PROFESSOR MILO” We did…
Like a juror, man ponders on the verdict with great deliberation. He ponders whether it is safe to pay attention to the witness or to the attorney. He is lost in his own thoughts, looking through the windows of a clouded mind. So is he, when he meets a lady. He ponders whether she is safe and a credible witness for him to listen to. He ponders on if or not he should open up his heart to her – a heart which has been direly sealed like a parcel packed to be delivered but forgotten making a home for…
Models, actress and fashion icons always look fab whenever they are found sporting a smoky eye. How to achieve this feat becomes a big deal when we don’t know how to use our make-up. Most people end up looking awful and smeared up rather than achieve the dope look that was their intention. Not to worry, here are three easy techniques that will give you that fantastic look you’ve always yearned for. What you need: 1. An eye shadow palette 2. Makeup brushes 3. Mascara How to apply: Select the eye shadow colour you would like to use from your…
Elder statesman and former Governor of the old Western Region of Nigeria, General Robert Adeyinka Adebayo (Rtd) will be Chairman at the ‘Five Star Launch’ of Chief Tony Okoroji’s much talked about book “ON THE ROAD TO CHANGE” General Adebayo will headline a roll call of Nigeria’s political big wigs and leaders of the nation’s progressive movement at the red carpet event billed for the Iris Hall of the posh Eko Hotel & Suites on Sunday, May 24, 2015. Also expected at the event are the leading lights among Nigeria’s intelligentsia such as Prof Pat Utomi, Prof Egerton Uvieghara, Prof…
Money they say is the root of all evil; but these days the saying is “money makes all things possible.” How does one live a life without money? How does one cope without the things money can buy to have at least a decent living condition? Poverty as we know it in this part of the world is like a death sentence. Fear of poverty has turned us to seek for money by any and all means. We have allowed our quest for money to erode our minds, our morals and every ounce of decency. And wealth as we have…