Fragments
Friday Column by Safiya I. Dantiye
Not too old to have a baby?
It is given that women of a certain age should not give birth or cannot give birth as programmed by...
How could a man starve his wife to death?
The ideal marriage is where love and harmony reign, but the reality is far from that where acrimony, wickedness and...
Lack of playground for children
Places are so choked up or so confined that children don’t have a place to play and run around to...
People are afraid of our institutions
People are afraid of going directly to an agency to ask for services they are entitled to simply because they...
Father’s crime against a baby
When you think that you have seen or heard everything in the form of an atrocity to question our humanity,...
Repatriation and Nigerians’ attitude abroad
With the repatriation of 542 stranded Nigerians by the Federal Government from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last Sunday because...
Skills acquisition as necessity
The complaints from parents and everywhere is that ‘there is no job’ for the teeming young people who are expected...
International Day of the Girl: ‘A princess?’
It is yet another year for the commemoration of the girl-child to draw attention to the challenges she faces in...
NDLEA: Unmasking drug barons
From time immemorial, we have never known or seen a drug baron arrested; only the couriers, the traffickers but the...
Challenges of raising children in the West
A video that went viral showed a teenage boy destroying his parents’ house. He had smashed everything because his mother...