So what? I get into an argument with a man, he slaps me, I feel the pain, yet they tell me I provoked him. I should have been quiet, I should have been patient. I should apologize to him. I get into an argument with a man, I slap him, they tell me I have no respect, no home training. […]
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1. She is not afraid to speak her mind Remember that you have to have the power to be comfortable with yourself before you let someone else in your life. Speak up for yourself and for what you believe in. Don’t be a pushover and always fight for what you believe in. Think you deserve a raise? Ask for a […]
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It doesn’t take a feminist or a woman to feel for the plight of women in the world today. To be born of a woman and to be humane is what it takes to understand the ordeal of this specie of humans through out history to today. Women though perceived as weaker beings constitute half of the world’s population and […]
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‘Mammy Market = Mammy Ochefu’ It was in 1959. Mammy Ode, a young girl from Jericho-Ugboju in the present Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State was married to Anthony Aboki Ochefu, a young Non-Commissioned military officer who had just been posted to Enugu from Abeokuta. They were quartered at the Army Barracks, Abakpa, Enugu. To beat idleness and perhaps […]
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Governor, Samuel Ortom directed our Head of Service, Inwata Adaikwu to immediately offer brother, Isaac Sekav Ahungwa employment after completing his patriotic bicycle tour riding from Ibadan, Oyo state to Makurdi, Benue State. Sekav was granted half a million Naira (N500,000.00) by our governor to enable him settle and continue his great service to Benue State and Nigeria at large. […]
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Friends and family, my name is Jennifer Akiga, I have to admit, I have learnt A LOT in 2014 and honestly ‘I do not look like what I’ve been through’! This has got to be the BEST year of my entire life! Prior to when I moved back to Nigeria, I was moving in a direction I deemed fit for […]
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Having examined the various areas we have problems with our education, let us proceed to consider the ways we can revive it and make it relevant to our needs. We must address the fundamental essence of education – development of our ideas. This is a very promising dimension we can tap in to improve our socio-economic situation. Instead of forcing […]
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“My father taught me to work. He did not teach me to love it.” – ABRAHAM LINCOLN Education teaches discipline. Discipline entails doing what is right because it is right even though we may not actually enjoy doing it. Discipline means controlling ourselves from within. It imposes sufficient inner checks on our natural instincts, which is why we are different […]
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“In school, teach him. It is far more honorable to fail than to cheat to pass. Teach him to have faith in his own ideas even if everyone tells him they are wrong.” – Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President. Recently, there has been an increased clamor for education of almost every kind. From children to adults, people of almost every […]
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For most of us, every twenty four hours that comes and goes is just nature. We think nothing special about it. So we are content with the small roles that we get in the movie of life. We just go with everything that does not task us too much… we just live. Everyday is an opportunity to adapt, create and […]
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