Pregnant women who sleep on their backs risk stillbirth –Report
Pregnant women who sleep on their backs are at greater risk of having a stillbirth, a new study suggests. Mothers-to-be in Ghana who slept in this position were found to be five times more likely to...
View ArticleLiterary students mourn Achebe
English, Communication and Literary Studies students of Nigerian universities have expressed sadness over the death of prominent writer, Chinua Achebe. They described him as a motivator and a...
View ArticleOgunbote takes over troubled Sharks
Ex-Sunshine Stars coach Gbenga Ogunbote is to be named as new coach of troubled Nigeria premier league club Sharks. Ogunbote, according to media officer of the club Abaje Peter, “Will be unveiled as...
View ArticleAkinsola Akinfemiwa bounces back
When this seasoned banker was compelled to step down as the managing director of Skye Bank Plc via a Central Bank of Nigeria directive, not a few people thought he was through with banking especially...
View ArticleTimi Ejiwunmi: New kid in the block
Last week, the talk surrounding newlywed Annie Macaulay-Idibia’s wedding dress was laid to rest when its designer was made known. The custom-made dress was designed by a newcomer in the wedding...
View ArticleDamola Kasunmu changes gear
His name might not readily ring a bell but that of his uncle, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu does. Little or nothing was known about him until last September when he wedded Seun Komolafe at a...
View ArticleOsun, pay us our allowances
On behalf of the Batch A members of the National Youth Service Corps in Osun State who passed out on February 13, I want to bring the issue of our state allowance to the notice of the Osun State...
View ArticleHow to set up a wordpress blog
Last week, we looked at wordpress and its many benefits; some of which include extending it beyond being just a blog. The reality is that wordpress today is first and foremost a blogging software. So...
View ArticleOn the decade of Africa
As the Catholic Church’s cardinals prepared to go into their enclave to elect a new Pope earlier this month, there were speculations that the world might get its first African Pope. It didn’t turn out...
View ArticleWanted! A leader to be proud of
Nigeria is in bondage, bondage of mediocrity and ethnicity. Each factor on its own is dangerous, combined, there can be no worse fate for a country. Right now Nigerians are disgusted with the...
View ArticleRe: Clinton on Nigeria: The unlearnt lessons
Prof. Ayo Olukotun’s article, Clinton on Nigeria: The Unlearnt lessons, hit the nail on the head in his critical comments on Mr. Bill Clinton’s indictment of our parasitic ruling class. But like...
View ArticleWhy Jonathan is not active on Twitter – Omokri
In the wake of constant criticism of President Goodluck Jonathan on social media, his Special Assistant on New Media, Reno Omokri, speaks in an online interview with TEMITAYO FAMUTIMI on his job and...
View ArticleHend soars to three-shot victory
Big-hitting Australian Scott Hend capitalised on Prayad Marksaeng’s spectacular final-round meltdown to lift the Chiangmai Golf Classic on Sunday. Thailand’s Prayad blew a five-shot lead and the chance...
View ArticleReturn of looted funds
Chief lmam Taofeek Sanni, Trade Fair Complex, Central Mosque, Lagos State, +23480596177: The news making the rounds that Britain is considering the return of slush funds back to Nigeria is most...
View ArticleNo to loot return
APEJI Bello, Obadore Lagos State, +23480334490: I read a report in page 2 of The PUNCH of Thursday, March 28, 2013 with viperous annoyance. The story says, “UK may return stolen subsidy fund to...
View ArticleNew way to lose weight?
Scientists at Harvard may have new hope for anyone who’s tried to fight the battle of the bulge. New research, conducted in collaboration with researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, has found...
View ArticleDefection: One killed in Ekiti violence
Violence broke out in Erijiyan Ekiti in Ekiti West Local Government Area on Saturday night as hoodlums shot dead a man identified as Mr. Ayo Jeje in front of his house. The deceased was said to be one...
View ArticleAwolowo lived a fulfilled life —Ogun ACN, Fraser
Ogun State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria on Sunday condoled with the Awolowo family over the death of their son, Oluwole. The ACN noted that Oluwole, the Tribune newspapers’ publisher,...
View ArticleObi pays medical bills for 25 Anambra patients
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State on Sunday paid the hospital bills of 25 indigent patients at Holy Rosary Hospital, Waterside, Onitsha. The governor, who visited the hospital as part of his Easter...
View ArticleSacked PDP official, lawyer disagree over appeal withdrawal
Former National Working Committee member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode Mustapha, and the party’s lawyers have disagreed over the withdrawal of an appeal challenging Mustapha’s removal....
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