NEWS VIDEO

Sziget Festival under construction

This year's sziget festival, one of the biggest events in Europe, starts in Budapest from August 8 to 15. 

POEM FOR A LADY

The Secret
(For Lady H. T. Oburoh on her Birthday)

You never look any old,
this is why I am telling you
Happy Birthday.
I wish you often blessings,
you must not be pulled back by hiccups.

NEWS OF THE MOMENT

Egypt's Mubarak goes on trial in hospital bed

By Associated Press

This video image taken from Egyptian State Television shows 83-year-old Hosni Mubarak laying on a hospital bed inside a cage of mesh and iron bars in a Cairo courtroom Wednesday Aug. 3, 2011 as his historic trial began on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted him. The scene, shown live on Egypt's state TV, was Egyptians' first look at their former president since Feb. 10, the day before his fall when he gave a defiant speech refusing to resign.

COMMENT

Before another Nigerian dies in Austria

By Uzoma Ahamefule

Nig Amb to Austria Ms Oyeyinka

This is a follow up letter to the letter I sent to the Nigerian Embassy in Vienna, Austria dated 13.03.2011 and headlined, A Nigerian in deep pain. In that letter, I requested for the invitation of the Nigerian Ambassador just to give the information about a Nigerian who claimed to have been humiliated and brutalised by the agents of the Austrian Police.

NEWS FOLLOW UP

I’m going through a lot, says NewYork maid

Hakeem Babalola 

Rape Case

The New-York Maid who alleged that the former IMF boss, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, raped her at a New-york hotel addressed newsmen on Friday saying, "I’m going through a lot, she said".

OPINION/COMMENT

Procuring the US visa

THE Embassy of the United States of America’s latest defence of the home government’s statutory rules on visa issuance in Nigeria should, to some extent, assuage the feelings of aggrieved applicants who allege deliberate official policy to delay, restrict or block access to the U.S.

MARRIAGE BLISS

8 reasons marriages hit the rocks

By Bisi Olaleye

General Overseer, Happy Family Chapel, Akowonjo, Lagos, Bishop Charles Ighele and his wife, Rev. Mrs. Caro Ighele have identified eight factors why marriages, especially Christian ones continue to break down.

WOMEN AFFAIRS

‘Women should never negotiate in marriage’

A consultant anaesthetist and Head of Department of Anaesthesia, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Cross River State, Dr. Mrs. Theresa Abang Edentiekhe, speaks with BLESSING EKUM on the challenges of being a mum, wife and a career woman and the place of a woman in marriage. Excerpts: