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Religion & Culture10 posts

Strength Beyond All Odds: Living With Albinism In Nigeria

Individuals with albinism are similar to any other person, with similar life expectancy and capacity to arrive at their objectives. Watching Onome Okagbare-Majoro and Ameen Olatunji Yusuf otherwise called Teejay Ameen, two people living with albinism as they get ready for their shoot with The Guardian Life, it is not difficult to tell that they are not the same as every other person as society ...Read more
2021-06-14
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Cultural Symbols Of The Rain And Its Companions

Can you recollect the smell of rain that saturates the air not long before spinning and moving under the downpour? Appreciating the demonstration and under a similar breath reciting persistently "downpour disappear… " But later being reprimanded by your folks because of a paranoid fear of becoming ill?  Indeed, even now as a grown-up while thinking back, you take a gand ...Read more
2021-06-14
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Food: An Important Feature Of Our Cultural Identity

From our straightforward method of dressing to our language and our otherworldly conviction, food is one disregarded yummy part of life that structures some portion of one's social character precluding the most obvious of all; garments and language as the lone social personality. In the same way as other different parts of life, food is a profoundly established articulation of character, ...Read more
2021-05-12
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Good Friday Challenge in Nigeria

Christians everywhere on the world imprint today as "Great Friday." It is the summit of the 40-day time of loaned and the peak of Jesus Christ's energy. Great Friday commends the focal secret of the Christian confidence, which is noticeably featured in the Gospel of Saint John Chapter 1, refrain 16, to be specific, that "God so adored the world that he gave his lone Son, so w ...Read more
2021-04-03
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Do you know about the woman on the 20 naira note?

Do you know about the woman on the 20 naira note? Ladi Kwali gave up a tradition of imagination and craftsmanships that mixed conventional African and Western stoneware. Dr. Hadiza Ladi Kwali was brought into the world in 1925 in the town of Kwali in the Gwari district of Northern Nigeria. There, stoneware was a typical occupation among ladies, so she took in her aunt's craftsmanship ...Read more
2021-03-12
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Muharram 2020: Islamic New Year

Muharram is the first month of Islamic calendar which is ten or twelve days shorter than the Gregorian calendar followed by the West. Also known as Al Hijri or Arabic New Year, the Islamic New Year is celebrated on the first day of Muharram. In India, if the crescent moon is sighted on Thursday evening, Al Hijri 1442 or Islamic New Year will be celebrated on August 21. Muharram is considered ...Read more
2020-08-20
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Kaduna State Government: 35,000 Almajiri Children Evacuated

35,000 Almajiri children have been evacuated by the Kaduna State Government. They were relocated to  h17 states and neighbouring countries. Hajiya Hafsat Baba, Commissioner for Human Services and Social Development in Kaduna State stated: "This is crucial because apart from COVID-19, some of the Almajiri had skin diseases and other ailments that need to be treated before reuniti ...Read more
2020-06-22
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Eid al-Fitr Celebrations Cancelled this Year?

Muslims world wide have been cautioned to pray home instead of visiting mosques this year in celebration of Eid al-Fitr. Celebrants are also advised to only share gifts and food with members of their households. Virtual gathertings on platforms such as Skype and Zoom are recommended for streaming religious sermons and connecting with loved ones to mark the celebration.  Though these ...Read more
2020-05-22
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  • Religion

Eid al-Fitr Celebrations Cancelled this Year?

Muslims world wide have been cautioned to pray home instead of visiting mosques this year in celebration of Eid al-Fitr. Celebrants are also advised to only share gifts and food with members of their households. Virtual gathertings on platforms such as Skype and Zoom are recommended for streaming relgious sermons and connecting with loved ones to mark the celebration.  Though these a ...Read more
2020-05-22
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Alhaji Attahiru Ahmed, Emir of Anka in Zamfara, has cautioned low income earners against marrying more than one wife

Alhaji Attahiru Ahmed, Emir of Anka in Zamfara, has cautioned low income earners against marrying more than one wife. Ahmed, who gave the warning on Sunday in Anka, said that multiple marriages was worsening the economic situation of the poor and making them even poorer. He spoke during the distribution of some women empowerment items donated by Hajia Aisha Bello-Matawalle, wife of the st ...Read more
2019-09-22
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