A visually-impaired widow in Anambra State has fallen victim t a yet-to-be-identified woman who allegedly stole her Automated Teller Machine card and emptied her account of over N2 million within minutes. The incident reportedly took place over the weekend at…
#JusticeForFidelis: Nigerians demand justice over alleged murder of 33-year-old man in Edo
The report of the mysterious death of a 33-year-old manager at Angle 90 branch of Valchi Fast Food and Bar, Auchi, Edo State, Fidelis Osaghae, has sparked some reactions among Nigerians on social media with hashtag #JusticeForFidelis trending on X…
Widow says her son-in-law is a kidnapper
A 70-year-old widow, Mrs Regina Amayo, has narrated how her son-in-law, Ekpo Kingsley, allegedly abducted her from her house in Ekuma-Abavo, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State, after he had a disagreement with his wife. It was learnt…
Still a long way from Breaking the Bias -Tara Aisida
It’s International Women’s Day on the 8th of March and this year’s theme is “Breaking the Bias”. The aim of the theme is to bring to focus and create an awareness of the bias women of all colours, ages, social…
FirstBank employees make a difference in their immediate environments through the SPARK initiative
Every other day, social media brings us a picture or video of a dilapidated school somewhere in Nigeria or shares images of a distraught widow, a struggling roadside trader or street hawker, or some other hapless victims of the extremely…
The way this Covid-19 is going, I may sleep with my landlord to pay my rent o!
I have lived in this house for about six years now, not too long. Before I rented the flat; I had gone almost round Lagos and none of what my agent showed me was suitable; I wanted a place with…
Yes, God is the husband of the widow but will He sleep with her? -Tara Martins Aisida
A older friend of mine approached me about a month after Mr Aisi’s death and said “Tara when you start having boyfriends don’t have them close to home ooo.” I laughed and told her “ah Aunty my grief is still…
Abeg don’t call me widow, call me my name – Tara Martins Aisida
I remember being prayed for the same day Mr Aisi passed on or maybe, it was the very next day and someone (I can’t remember who now) uttered the word the “widow and the fatherless” in prayers and I thought…
Meet the woman who poisoned makeup to help women murder their husbands (Genevieve Carlton-Medium)
She’s the most successful serial killer whose name you’ve never heard. Giulia Tofana killed hundreds of men in 17th-century Italy when she turned her makeup business into a poison factory, selling a deadly concoction called Aqua Tofana, thought to have…