Gender issues took the centre stage because it has become a core value to achieving balanced reportage of gender sensitive issues and gender mainstreaming in the Nigerian media. It also served as an advocacy step to changing the perceived perspective of the private and public sectors in gender activities. |
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Reuters. Reverend Al Sharpton speaks about the death of Akai Gurley at the National Action Network in the Harlem borough of New York November 22, 2014. A New York City officer shot and killed Gurley in a dimly lit stairwell of the housing project, in what may have been an accidental discharge of his weapon, the police commissioner said on Friday. |
I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He is late, that Nobel laureate from Columbia who passed on this year, just a day before our National Day. I have drawn from his writings, a point my loyal readers would vouch for. He believed in words, and used them to batter the world he did not like, buttress and bolster the value he cherished. |
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The sight of a battered pump organ left damaged and abandoned on Fallowfield Road broke Sandy Sharkey’s heart. “It’s just so beautiful,” said Sharkey, an Ottawa radio personality and photographer who saw the organ on Tuesday and has gone back four more times to take pictures. |
Our regular column covering the deaths of significant - but lesser reported - people of the past month. The Duchess of Alba was probably the most eccentric figure in modern European aristocracy. She held more than 50 titles, including being a duchess seven times over, and it was claimed she could.... |
The gentle temperament and soft spoken nature of Reverend Henry Ogbonnaya belies the authority and the followership he wields. Inside this calm personality is a dogged leader of the Badagry District of the Presbyterian Church of God, Nigeria. The 64-year old church leader in this interview with.... |
Akai Gurley's daughter Akaila sits on her mother Kimberly Ballinger's lap as reverend Al Sharpton speaks at the National Action Network in the Harlem borough of New York November 22, 2014. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
The district attorney in Brooklyn will convene a grand jury to consider possible charges.... |
"American Kids," Rodney Clawson, Luke Laird and Shane McAnally (performed by Kenny Chesney) "Automatic," Nicolle Galyon, Natalie Hemby and Miranda Lambert (Miranda Lambert) "Give Me Back My Hometown," Eric Church and Luke Laird (Eric Church) "I'm Not Gonna Miss You," Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond.... |
Last month, my children cheered when they saw a Christmas tree in Costco, and I ignored it, stony faced. "Is Christmas soon?" they asked, eagerly. "No, first comes Thanksgiving. And then Channukah. And there are other holidays before Christmas, too," I said. "So why are there Christmas trees?" It was a simple question, and I answered it simply. |
I wasn't shocked to see a video that went viral in recent days in which Steven L. Anderson, an Arizona pastor, had given a sermon on November 30, quoting Leviticus and calling for executing gays as a solution to the AIDS epidemic. That's because a few years back he called me a child molester when I.... |
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