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    HIV Test As Season’s Gift

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Kehinde Bademosi, founder of the Orange Academy, has inspired this piece. The brand expert disclosed that he has been living with the ‘damn’ HIV virus for 15 years. His story appeared in a post on Facebook to mark World AIDS Day on December […] More

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    The Trauma of Child Abuse

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The video seems ordinary enough. A woman is feeding a baby and sometimes she feeds herself from the baby’s food. This is typical of most mothers. Then as the woman stops feeding, the child sits up and vomits the food. The woman then […] More

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    An Evening With African Writers

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The African Literary Evening was my idea even though I feel I cannot take all the credit for its success. The idea came about from the culmination of several conversations with people over a period of time. The African Literary Evening was an […] More

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    Remembering Fallen Heroes

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Last Tuesday, the United Kingdom, UK, observed a two-minute silence at the 11th hour, on the 11th day in the 11th month to commemorate the exact day and time when hostilities of the First World War, WW1, (1914–1918) formally ended. The two-minute silence […] More

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    Making Money From Christmas

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow I cannot say exactly when we planned to get the Christmas tree. All I can remember is that we have been talking about getting the Christmas tree for too long. We would have got it out at the last week of October like […] More

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    The Challenges of Depression

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Depression is a nasty devil, a silent killer that sucks the life out of the best people. It can be described as an internal time bomb that bedevils mercilessly till one is overcome by it. Drugs and alcohol often exacerbate depression. Unfortunately, the […] More

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    Looking for the Liberated Man

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow A random conversation with a complete stranger about why she left her second husband prompted this write up. It was her experience that even though the man was Nigerian and had lived in the United Kingdom, UK, for over 25 years, the man […] More

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    Mandela In the British Media

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Even though, we knew for months that Nelson Mandela was close to the end of his days, his death still came as a shock for most. His death is a vivid reminder to every politician and indeed all of us that the certainty […] More

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    As Christmas Approaches

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow It is already morning and the sun is beginning to rise.  It’s four weeks to Christmas today. The view from my desk is staggeringly beautiful. The skies are a mix of red, wine, orange and white, universal colours of peace and harmony. Unlike […] More

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