Saturday Magazine

    For about 20 years, Mr. Ladipo Laniyan has been with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). As the new director of the NYSC in Lagos State, he has developed friendship with the youths and devised ways of improving their lot so as to ensure that the goals of the scheme are achieved.

TESSY and joy and had so much fun. It did not matter that there were no men in their lives. They even sneered at the thought that men would have to be with them before they can enjoy themselves.

Anambra State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Maja Umeh, is optimistic that his boss, Governor Peter Obi, will be returned for a second term in next year's election.   Governor Peter Obi has just flagged off his re-election campaigns. How would you assess the performance of the government so far?

SELF esteem is perhaps the most important element that makes up that critical attitude for success that gives an individual the Winner's Edge in life. It is that inside the skin feeling of your own worth. "You see, I like myself, I really like myself. I am gland I'm me. It had rather been me than anyone else living at this true in history." This is the self-talk of a winner, and positive self-talk is the key to developing self-esteem.

  DR. Alaba Faramade Towoju could be mistaken for a combatant soldier. Wide chest, strong arms and eyes that seemed to have seen many horrors of war. His visage indeed bears testimony to many days of hard going. A few inches below receding hairline above his head, his glistening brows are furrowed.

  The prevailing hard times seemed to have plunged Nigerians into the new culture of buying second hand goods - second hand cars, second hand refrigerators, second hand generators, second hand radios and ,even second, hand clothes. Life must go on. Nigerians indeed have become "managers" wily-nilly, making the best of the dire circumstances they found themselves. What else could one do?

  TT is impossible to forget that Christmas is just around the corner. During this festive season, people exchanges gifts, drink and eat different delicacies with their loved ones. School children, youths and others also celebrate this season by organising parties where different foods, drinks and snacks are served. Lemon cream dessert is one of the ideal desserts for celebrating Christmas.

SCIENTISTS have proved for the first time that a cheap form of sugar used in thousands of food products and soft drinks damage human metabolism and is fuelling the obesity crisis.   Fructose, a sweetner derived from corn, can cause dangerous growths of fat cells around vital organs and is able to trigger the early stages of diabetes and heart disease.

  New York, December 17, 2009-2009 has been the bloodiest year for media professionals killed in the line of duty worldwide since 1992, and has seen the highest death toll for journalists in Sub-Saharan Africa in this decade, according to an annual analysis of media fatalities worldwide released today by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). In a week marking the anniversaries of the unsolved murders of journalists Norbert Zongo of Burkina Faso and Gambian Deyda Hydara, the report denotes that none of the perpetrators of the 2009 journalist murder cases have been brought to justice.

Beauty means different things to different people just as style confers different pictures to different people. Curiously, oftentimes, many people tend to mix up beauty with style and vice versa. For Mimi Whyte-Femi, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Skin Therapy Beauty and Spa, a leading brand in the beauty business, beauty and style…