Saturday Magazine
13 Feb 2015
IN fulfillment of its promise to household consumers of Golden Penny semovita, Flour Mills of Nigeria (FMN), makers of the Semolina brand, has presented two cars and a power generating set to star winners in the Golden Penny Semovita Open and Win Promo. While 27-year old Miss Ozioma Eronini, an accountant, walked away with…
13 Feb 2015
THE famous American president and civil war hero, Abraham Lincoln asserts that success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm until you win. That means enthusiasm is a key ingredient of success in life. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by persistence. Every…
13 Feb 2015
This year’s World Cancer Day themed: “Not Beyond Us” was celebrated by Breast Without Spot (BWS) a non-governmental organisation (NGO) at University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka on February 4 with youths from all walks of life. The President and founder of BWS, Professor Ifeoma Okoye spoke to DEBO OLADIMEJI on the World Cancer Day and…
13 Feb 2015
TO act as a link between campuses of the nation’s tertiary institutions and the corporate and business communities, Campus Alive Initiative, a campus-based marketing communications and consultancy company, has re-modeled its services for optimum results to clients. In a statement by the Managing Director of the firm, Oyinwola Don Babatope, he said that over…
13 Feb 2015
IN a bid to maintain his feat as one of the fast rising R&B youngsters in the country’s music industry, singer KolaSoul has dropped a new love single Marry You, featuring female hip-hop sensation Seyi Shay and Mavin’s talent Korede Bello. The track, which comes with his usual spectacular vocal prowess, is a…
13 Feb 2015
IT is my dream that every girl values herself and appreciates who she is, so that she will never be jealous of anyone. It is natural to feel a little envious every now and then but when it turns into jealously it can actually be quite ugly. I always tell girls that they are valuable…
13 Feb 2015
THE National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) has reduced its earlier charged online registration fees from N4,000 to N3,000 per prospective corps member. The NYSC boss, Brigadier-General Johnson Bamidele Olawumi recently made this know to corps members. Commending the leadership of NYSC for his action, a Coalition of Civil Society Groups under the aegis…
13 Feb 2015
THE hall of Golden Tulip Hotel looked beautiful in a golden way. Chairs and tables well decorated were neatly arrayed in circles. The party was not to begin until 6pm, but the hall was almost full ahead of time. The guests looked striking in their colorful dresses. Only the Chinese friends of the celebrant looked…
13 Feb 2015
THE bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds because they mature slowly; marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it. According to Pa Philip Kolawole Osineye and his wife, Mama Eunice Atinuke Osineye, 90 and 82 respectively, love seems the swiftest,…
13 Feb 2015
TODAY, the world celebrates lovers day (Saint Valentine’s Day) and we, Alhaji AbdulAzeez Arisekola Alao’s people (family, staff, business partners, friends, admirers, beneficiaries) all over the world also celebrate his posthumous 70th birthday, having been born at Adigun village of Ibadanland, Ona Ara Local Council Area of Oyo State on February 14, 1945. Little wonder…
13 Feb 2015
EVERY flower is unique to its beauty. All flowers have something to say about themselves. The individual types of flowers and flower colors express specific ‘flower sentiments’ and ‘flower meanings’. The evolution of a subtle language of flowers developed in many cultures, in Victorian times it became known as floriography, in Chinese feng – chui,…
13 Feb 2015
POPULAR actress Rita Dominic caused a statement to be issued on her behalf last week where she shared her thoughts on the 2015 general elections. The multiple-award winning actress and producer opened with a passionate appeal to her fans and Nigerians to shun electoral violence. She said: “We should not murder relationships and in some…
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