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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Bunmi Sofola SYLVIA admitted that her parent’s marriage and the stoic way her mummy yielded her position as the first wife to a much younger and ambitious woman prepared her for the way she handled her relationship with men. Her story: ‘When a man suddenly discovered he’s scaled the ladder of success faster than he’d envisaged, what does he do when he gets to the top? Chuck his frumpy wife for a more sophisticated model, that’s what! And it happened to my mother – a stark illiterate, my father too couldn’t read or write. But he was a fairly successful cocoa farmer and although we weren’t exactly rolling on the laps of luxury, we were the envy of our small town; talk about a big fish in a very small pond indeed! We at least had the benefit of a good education. ‘My father had been on the war-path with the leadership of the local Pentecostal church we attended. He disagreed with the procedure used for raising money and how the money was spent. Things finally go...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Bunmi Sofola SYLVIA admitted that her parent’s marriage and the stoic way her mummy yielded her position as the first wife to a much younger and ambitious woman prepared her for the way she handled her relationship with men. Her story: ‘When a man suddenly discovered he’s scaled the ladder of success faster than he’d envisaged, what does he do when he gets to the top? Chuck his frumpy wife for a more sophisticated model, that’s what! And it happened to my mother – a stark illiterate, my father too couldn’t read or write. But he was a fairly successful cocoa farmer and although we weren’t exactly rolling on the laps of luxury, we were the envy of our small town; talk about a big fish in a very small pond indeed! We at least had the benefit of a good education. ‘My father had been on the war-path with the leadership of the local Pentecostal church we attended. He disagreed with the procedure used for raising money and how the money was spent. Things finally go...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Marie-Therese Nanlong J os— A 63-year-old woman, Margaret Davou, on Monday, gave birth to a baby girl through reproductive technology in Jos, Plateau State, after 38 years of marriage. Mrs. Davou, a native of Zawan in Jos South Local Government Area of the state, delivered the baby, her first through a Caesarean section at the GynaeVille Specialist Hospital, Jos, where she confessed she had achieved her life time dream of being a mother. Speaking with Vanguard in Jos yesterday, the proud mother said: “This is not my first trial. I have undergone many surgeries and have done the treatment in different hospitals outside Plateau State. “This is the fourth time— three times in other hospitals— and I am grateful to God that at the first trial, since I came back to Jos, it is successful.” She encouraged women who are “seeking the fruit of the womb to depend on God and seek medical help because I am not advocating anyone visiting or patronising herbalists.” She...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J ENUGU—Enugu State Government has commenced a one-month training for  over 150 persons to be recruited as Traffic Enforcement Bureau officials to ensure a decent and effective management of traffic rules and regulations in the state. Declaring the training open, the state’s commissioner for Transport, Mr. Vitus Okechi, who was accompanied by his counterpart from the Labour Ministry, Mr. Emeke Okeke, noted that the programme was meant to create a new image for the bureau that would guarantee a refined and robust traffic management system and ensure safe transportation in the state as well as reduce traffic congestion being experienced in some areas. Okechi explained that following public outcry, the state executive council had through the intervention of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, suspended the activities of the traffic enforcement officials under the Ministry of Transport  and directed the ministry to organize proper training for the officials to enable ...