Former Commissioner for Information in Edo State, Prince Kassim Afegbua has said that Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party should remain in Nigeria and canvass for votes instead of going abroad as he is currently doing.Afegbua who spoke in an interview with SUNDAY INDEPENDENT said he is happy that Obi is contesting in 2023 as he is going to reduce the votes the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar will get in the South East. He said, “Yes, the 2023 presidential election is now a three-horse race and I am happy that Peter Obi…
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Kwesi and I practically grew up together. Our friendship was one of those unavoidable things that happen in life. This is because our families run in the same circle. His parents see me as part of their family, just as much as my parents see him as part of ours. With this kind of arrangement, we were bound to be best friends. And we were such an envious duo. As we grew older, people who didn’t know our back story assumed we were dating. Sometimes we corrected them, but sometimes we didn’t. We were fine with whatever people thought of…
An unidentified lady has been involved in an auto crash in Calabar while chasing her husband who she saw with another woman. According to an eye witnesses, Stephen Okposin, the accident happened earlier today at the Murtarla Mohammed Highway. “The lady saw her hubby at Spar shop with another woman in the car, so she hurrily drove to double cross them. This man saw her car and zoomed off, so the woman became aggressive and sped up.”I was just driving behind them just in less than 3 minutes I saw her involved in the accident and she’s unconscious at point…
Nollywood actress, Halima Abubakar, has opened up about her alleged relationship with the popular Nigerian televangelist, Johnson Suleman.According to the actress in via her Instagram story on Sunday, she never knew that general overseer of Omega Fire Ministries International was married as he told her that he was separated with three children. She wrote, “I fuck up yes. I own my mistakes. But I won’t lie anymore. Nigga said he was separated. I didn’t meet a married man.“I met a bizman with three kids. Long story, stay away from liars.“Every month only you. How do you sleep? You paid off…
The co-convener of the BringBackourGirls Movement, Aisha Yesufu, on Sunday explained why some Nigerians canvass support for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.In a video posted on her social media handle, Yesufu noted that Nigerians rooting for the APC national leader to become president in 2023 want to take advantage of his ill health to access undue opportunities in power. She said the former Lagos State governor currently lacks the capacity to rule a complex country like Nigerians.The activist stressed that a lot of Nigerians want Tinubu as the president in order to have their share…
Man heartbroken as fire guts Mercedes Benz days after purchase (Video)The owner of a new Mercedes Benz is left with a scar as his newly acquired millions of naira worth of vehicle catches fire. A video making rounds on social media captured the horrifying moment a luxury vehicle caught fire in broad daylight without a rescue. The car worth millions of naira was said to have been acquired some days before the incident which rendered the car worthless.The owner who may have captured the event stared helplessly as the new Mercedes Benz burn beyond recognition. Watch the video below …
My husband, Cameron, and I got married in September of 2017. He was active-duty Air Force and I was a personal trainer. When we got together, I had to take my business fully online so I could move to Montana to be with him. When we got married, we were both crystal-clear on never having babies the old-fashioned way. We were open to fostering but not for several years, and only older children. Over the course of our first year of marriage, I built my online business and my husband was finishing up his career in the Air Force. He…
This is Sharon, my mother-in-law.She taught me it’s important work to see someone for who they are and not what you expect.When I first met my mother-in-law I had a hard time understanding her thick south Virginia accent. And she seemed a little bossy in that southern passive-aggressive polite way. But I knew she was important to the love of my life, so I accepted her grudgingly as some of us do when family is forced on us. After 5 years I still didn’t really know her.When my wife got leukemia at 30. When our world was shattered and changed…
Autism is a word describing millions of different people and millions of different journeys. My name is Amanda, and I am a single mother to an amazing 15-year-old boy named Ajay. Ajay is funny, caring, sweet, loving, and busy; he loves to repeat the phrases ‘ready, set, go’ and ‘3, 2, 1, go.’ Ajay has autism and uses a combination of signs, gestures, vocal approximations, and his communication device to communicate. When I first heard the word ‘autism’ as a parent, so many thoughts ran through my mind: Will he ever talk? Will he have friends? What will life look…
From the countless magazine covers plastered with waif models to web ads oozing with the next revolutionary weight-loss hack, it’s hard to get away from the cultural narrative that screams “skinny is BETTER” especially when you are dealing with a postpartum body. Reportedly, “a total of 75 percent of all American women endorse some unhealthy thoughts, feelings or behaviors related to food or their bodies”…and those are just the ones who admitted to it in a survey.If we’re being honest with ourselves, we’ve ALL probably had those thoughts at some point in our lives. In the era of Photoshopped thighs…