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Nigerian politician, Amina Jane Mohammed She is not only known in Nigeria but worldwide. After a stint in the Nigerian private sector, Amina

Mental illnesses are not uncommon in Nigeria; the cases of suicides reported over time shows the degree of occurrence in our society. Nigeria, a society with many cultural beliefs have misconception and misbeliefs about mental illness

Disappointments upon disappointments, you start to feel depressed for being so unlucky with everyone and everything. But then again, you just suddenly feel yourself being seized by this “energy” calling you to gather yourself again. But this time around, instead of thinking to go somewhere to seek “help” you begin to think on how you could be like those people who rejected you, and disappointed you — there you decide on where to go and how to take lead of your life.

But there is huge difference between national debt and family debt. What most people don’t know is that national debt is not like family finances. The difference is that countries have the central bank to manipulate their economy. They have more financial and monetary flexibility to get out of financial troubles.

About three weeks ago, I saw a really good-looking young man. From where I sat in the moving bus, he looked well and happy. He was walking down the road like someone who needed to be somewhere and the briefcase he was carrying looked cool. With just one look at him, you may not tell that there was something off about him. But my curiosity, or is it lust, did not allow me to take off my eyes.

Intersex is a term that is used for a variety of conditions where a human or animal is born with either external or internal sexual anatomy which are quite different from that of a typical male or female.

If you want to break from cycle of poverty and migrate into the rich middle class without stealing, you must break from salary earnings group and seek a money making idea you can work on. Earning salaries can make you comfortable today, but your focus should be on future sustainability.

The person has the chromosomes of a man, but the external genitals are incompletely formed, ambiguous, or clearly female. Internally, testes may be normal, malformed, or absent. This condition is also called 46, XY with undervirilization. It used to be called male pseudohermaphroditism.

Unstable parents create insecure children. Stable parents raise stable children. Children need affection (hugs,), attention (listening) and affirmation (positive words), every day. If your child has a poor self esteem, it could be you give advice more than you encourage him or her.

From 11pm to 3am, most of your blood circulation concentrates in your liver. Your liver gets larger when filled with more blood. This is an important time when your body undergoes detoxification process. Your liver neutralizes and breaks down body toxins accumulated throughout the day.

He was right. Inside my room I heard a loud sound from the transformer near my window. I took to my heels thinking it was Boko Haram, leaving my 3 years chief who in his own way, froze like a turtle, out of fear.

But I came to realize — and even believe — that to be successful amidst the life’s challenges or even be happy in a world full of unhappy experiences could be a fool’s wish. But, again, I believe it’s very possible. And it’s just a matter of change of mindset and one’s attitude to life.

Intersex is a group of conditions where there is a discrepancy between the external genitals and the internal genitals (the testes and ovaries). The older term for this condition is hermaphroditism.

You might have heard the statement “if you are born of a woman, then…” or “if na woman born you,…

Before the arrival of posh cars such as Range Rover, Hummer jeep and the rest, there have been cars that Nigerians used their hard-earned money to buy. These cars were seen frequently on the roads back in the days. Even though there are new models of these automobiles, when you look back, it’s as if they will stay on the roads forever but that’s not the case.

So, for those trying to find reasons to blame parents for the intersex situation of their children, be it known that it had nothing to do with the producing couple.

Olumide is a young, handsome, caring, and soft spoken man that every lady wants to meet. He pays more attention to his looks more than any other thing and there is nothing wrong with that. Olumide had posters of handsome men all pasted in his room as one of the corps member in our hostel during the mandatory youth service.

Intersex individuals are not homosexuals; transgender maybe, but not homosexual. Wearing feminine clothing does not make one a homosexual. The homosexual orientation is one that has very little to do with physical appearance. It has more to do with emotionally connecting or sexually/romantically connecting with people of the same sex, a psychologist pointed out.

14- 2012 to 2014 measles killed 122,000, typhoid killed 216,000, tuberculosis 1.3million, Ebola 4000 worldwide.

A conservative society like Nigeria has a lot to do in dealing with stigmatization and discrimination of different kinds of…

Now that we know one grave dangers of inbreeding outlives the act, why don’t we consider not marrying our cousins and save ourselves and our future offsprings the necessary stress?