Category: FEATURES

South Africa is a bustling and culturally rich country on the southernmost tip of the African continent. It boasts of diverse cultures and customs, some of which are indeed interesting to know, especially for those considering a visit to the beautiful country. Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares 5 interesting South African customs to know. Touching and Personal Space There is usually a decent amount of touching when dealing with South Africans, which features the touching of arms, shoulders and hands in interactions with one another. People will…

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I knew I was studying the right course in the university when our lecturer at the time, Dr. Ekeanyanwu Nnamdi(probably the best teacher I’ll ever have) mentioned that a journalist had to have a “nose for news” and “an eye for detail”. I certainly have all of that, including an ear for the most silent whispers. I notice and hear EVERYTHING. Matter of fact, I once narrated an event to my mother – an event that happened when I was just about a year old- with so much detail that she…

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One thing seems rare in our society today, a society that is rapidly growing wide apart from real time human relation and increasingly porous in the sphere of classless co-existence…. that is the rich living for the poor. Here is a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria  epitomizing the true essence and respect for humanity. Senator Andy Uba has today proven once again to be a man of the people who is ready to accommodate  the constituent social strata of our society as he mingles with the commons,…

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Culture they say is the people’s way of life but a culture that is championed by  aimless and jobless youth under the fragile custody of fickle  and demoralised elders in a hopeless society, is bound to shrink, waver and shrivel. It is in the recognition of the dire need for productive engagement of the youth  especially, that the Anambra South Senator, Dr. Andy Uba has ceased an ample opportunity to empower the youth  through capacity building. The All Progressives Congress (APC) Anambra State frontline guber contestant  provided a good number…

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I am initially reticent to say this, but the big and unfair condemnations and insults showered on the couples, @junaidu2011 and @fareeluv makes it paramount for someone to come out and tell the world the truth about what actually happened, and nothing but the truth. Even as a professional journalist, I am naturally a person who minds his business. That is why it was a little bit difficult for me to come out and tell the world what should be told about this interesting love triangle. People believe what they…

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The question was always the same, she says. So, too, was the answer. “They came to us to pick us,” Fati recalls. “They would ask, ‘Who wants to be a suicide bomber?’ The girls would shout, ‘me, me, me.’ They were fighting to do the suicide bombings.” Boko Haram: Why terror group kidnaps schoolgirls, and what happens next Young girls fighting to strap on a bomb, not because they were brainwashed by their captors’ violent indoctrination methods but because the relentless hunger and sexual abuse — coupled with the constant…

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