NEWS & REPORTS

Togo women call sex strike against president

Women in Togo have called a week-long sex strike, starting on Monday, to demand the president's resignation. The ban has been called by opposition coalition Let's Save Togo, which groups together nine civil society groups and seven opposition parties and movements. Opposition leader Isabelle Ameganvi said that sex could be a "weapon of the battle" to achieve political change.

FEATURE

Sex workers increase in Madagascar

About one in seven residents of Madagascar's main port city of Toamasina are sex workers. In less than 20 years, the number of registered sex workers in the city of about 200,000 residents has climbed from 17,000 in 1993 to 29,000 in 2012. The increase has been driven by rising poverty levels as well as the city's proximity to the recently opened Ambatovy nickel mine.

INTERVIEW

Age is no barrier to marriage 

Bimbo Akintola

Popular actress, Bimbo Akintola, expresses her views about marriage as she reflects on her single status and the role she plays in Hoodrush, writes AKEEM LASISI 

NEWS & REPORTS

Malawi sits on untapped gold
By Frazer Potani

Fruits and vegetables contain magic and power of transforming women relying on their husbands on everything including bringing food on the table into breadwinners. To prove it, one just has to visit Magomero in Chiradzuru about 40 Km from Malawi's commercial city, Blantyre in the south.

NEWS FEATURE

How fraudsters target married women in Lagos

By Ifeanyi Okolie 

Cynthia Osokogu

THE gruesome killing of Cynthia Osokogu, the only daughter of Maj.-Gen. Frank Osokogu, (rtd) by two undergraduates on July 22, 2012, in Festac Town, Lagos State, has highlighted the frightening danger behind befriending strangers on the social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, e.t.c. 

COMMENTARY

 My questions about Christianity 

By Stella Damascus

I have often wondered about Christianity and what a lot of people have said about it. Growing up, I saw Christianity in a different light, as an adult it meant something else to me but now I am very grateful to God that I have started finding out exactly what it is to be called a Christian.

NEWS UPDATE

 Ukraine seizes the assets of an African pastor

Adelaja

Ukrainian police buckled yesterday morning refraining from arresting the prominent Nigerian pastor who had been summoned to report at its offices in Kiev, as international pressure mounted on the controversial case which has been on for several years now, Empowered Newswire reports.

GENERAL

Uduaghan tasked on Okpe kingdom's development

 By Hector Spiff

The people of Okpe have been urged to wake up from their apparent slumber to develop their ancient kingdom. The charge was contained in a statement issued in Lagos by the Secretary General of Okpe Union Worldwide, Mr. Henry Ebireri.

PRESS RELEASE

  Ambassador meets with the Nigerian community leaders in Hungary

Amb Onuoha

The Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to Hungary, H.E. Chief Eddy Onuoha held his median meeting with leaders of the Nigerian Community in Budapest on 18^th August, 2012. 

NEWS FEATURE

Ukraine intensifies probe of Nigerian pastor as fear of discrimination rises

UKRAINIAN police has summoned a famous Nigerian Pastor, Mr. Sunday Adelaja, who pastors the country's biggest church based in Kiev, the capital city, to report for what is feared may be an arrest and detention in a controversial case bordering on racial discrimination and religious victimization, which has been going on for the last three years, Empowered Newswire reports.