TRAVEL

 In America, airlines can say: You can't wear that

David Koenig

Airlines give many reasons for refusing to let you board, but none stir as much debate as this: How you're dressed.

COMMENTARY

Let’s talk about sex

By Stella Damascus

I stumbled on an article which got me thinking seriously. Not just because I had written something similar but because things are getting worse by the day. For those of us who have teenage daughters we need all the advice, tips, help and we need to pray for them as much as we can.

NEWS & REPORTS

Hungary:Ticket inspectors should be armed to the teeth

Ticket inspectors, curiously referred to as “controllers” in Hungary, are demanding self-defense weapons such as pepper spray due to the rise in atrocities committed during their controlling, says Metro Union leader Attila Gulyas, according to Blikk.

COMMENTARY

They go abroad, but never return

By Helen Afam 

Minister-of-Youth-Development  Abdulkadir

IRENE Obaseki was my classmate in Benin City. We became friends because each of us had what the other did not have; while he was better in Mathematics, I loved and excelled better in the English Language and Literature. So when it was time for us to move on to higher institutions, he choose to study Statistics and later Mathematics Education; I studied Sociology. Our dreams and hopes were high, so was our admiration for our future. 

IMMIGRATION & TRAVEL

Rotten immigration officials @ Nigerian international airport

The rate at which immigration officials at the Murtala  Muhammed International Airport are operating through illegal collection of money from passengers is getting very alarming. This is evident in the ensuing story that amplifies the rotten status of Nigerian immigration officials at Nigeria’s foremost   international airport.

HEALTH & VISA

South Africa Entry Visa: Foundation alleges discrimination

By Chioma Obinna 

Fresh diplomatic row may be brewing following the denial of entry visas to a delegation of members of the Down Syndrome Foundation of Nigeria, DSFN, by the South African High Commission in Nigeria. The delegation was billed to attend the 2012 World Down Syndrome Congress holding in Cape Town South Africa, but was denied entry visas on allegation of possession of invalid Yellow Cards. 

NEWS & REPORTS

Nigerians protest student's detention in Ukraine

Nigerians in Ukraine are protesting against the arrest of a Nigerian student for allegedly defending himself against six teenagers who attacked him at the entrance to his apartment. 

NEWS & REPORTS

Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi is dead

Ethiopian State TV announced early Tuesday that Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has died at the age of 57.

COMMENTARY

Why divorce is rampant in our community (II)

This week, in our series “Life in the Diaspora”, we continue our look into the state of affairs of marriage within our community. Why do we have high rate of divorces and the defilement of the foundational mores and values of matrimony in our community? Why are couples bailing out on their spouses and infidelities and serial cheating have come to be accepted as the new norm?

NEWS

South Africa's police kill 34 miners 

Thirty-four people were killed in clashes between police and striking miners at a South African mine on Thursday, police said. Police opened fire after failing to disperse strikers armed with clubs and machetes at the Marikana mine.