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By Yetunde Arebi Hi, Why do women worry so much about everything and nothing? This was the question I asked myself after listening to the story you are about to read. In a mother’s bid to ensure the best for her young daughter, she ended up leading her into the lion’s den. And though Sekinah said she has moved on with her life, she cannot forget what happened between her and the man she called Alfa. Her story is one of the most intriguing I’ve heard in recent times. Happy reading! “Not many people know that I was once married and I have a son. I met my husband when I went for consultation at an Alfa’s place. My mother took me and my siblings there. He used to do some potions for us on our mother’s request. You see, my father is a polygamist and has several children from these women. “My mother was initially the second wife before the death of the first wife. The unhealthy competition attached to the polygamous life style forced my mother t...

Aba (Abia) – A truck driver whose identity has yet to be determined was crushed to death in Aba by a cargo train late on Thursday. light rail The accident occurred at about 10 p.m. at the railway crossing behind Eziukwu Market off Cemetery Road by Ogbonna Road in the commercial city. A source, who pleaded anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the issue, told NAN that the truck got stuck on the rail track and that the train coming from Port Harcourt rammed into the truck. The source said that the driver was outside the truck trying to remove his vehicle but jumped into the truck in a bid to remove it from the track. He said, however, that the driver was unable to remove the vehicle before the train rammed on his truck, killing him instantly. The source said that the driver made effort to escape the coming train but was not fast enough with the train hitting his vehicle and cutting off his legs. An eye-witness, Kingsley Okoro, said that the truck driver came to...

Abuja – A former Minister of Information, Prince Tony Momoh, has expressed fears that the new N30, 000 minimum wage, signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on April 18 would lead to chaos. Minimum Wage: NLC, TUC laud Buhari over assent Momoh, who is also a chieftain of the APC party made the statement this while addressing newsmen on Friday in Abuja as part of activities to mark his 80th birthday. Acccording to him, while he is happy over the new wage, he holds the view that it will lead to a situation where many states will not be able to pay and this will lead to industrial unrest and strikes. “Minimum wage is not a living wage. My prediction is that the N30, 000 minimum wage will cause chaos because many state governments that were paying N7, 500 before N18, 000 was introduced could not pay then. “A lot of them are currently finding it difficult to pay N18, 000 now. They are already saying they can’t pay and this will lead to strikes. When that ha...

By Sola Ogundipe Whoever finds a cure for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) deserves the Nobel Prize in Medicine & Physiology. The reason is clear. HIV is one of the most intelligent viruses known. It has evaded cure for more than three decades simply because it is incredibly smart, so it’s going to take someone that is very clever indeed, to outsmart it. •A researcher at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, where edited DNA was used to fix genetic illness into patients using modified HIV Although genetically simple, HIV demonstrates remarkably complex behaviour. It is a master of invasion and evasion. Despite its comparatively small “genetic brain,” the virus is able to evade sophisticated detection mechanisms of the immune system. It also counters attacks of the vastly more complex human cells, reach into the cell’s nucleus and replace the human genome with its own viral DNA. By attacking the immune system direct...