Luxury Flying: First Class Choices You Should Try
Flying first class in 2025 is no longer just about reclining seats and better food, it has become an entirely different world. Airlines are competing to outdo one another, transforming the cabin into something closer to a private mansion in the sky than…
Immortality by Organ Transplants? Xi and Putin’s Banter Opens a Bigger Debate
At first glance or perception, it sounded like lighthearted banter. At a military parade in Beijing this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin found themselves musing about immortality. Through a translator, Putin joked…
Why Nigerian Gen Z Must Move Beyond Saving to Secure Their Financial Future
Generation Z in Nigeria is rewriting financial habits, but not always in ways that secure long-term prosperity. Unlike their older counterparts, this cohort shows a strong preference for saving over investing, a choice that reflects not just caution, but…
Can a Warm Embrace Restore Health and Hope?
Sometimes, a warm embrace or hug is all you need to cope with your life pressures. It’s little but can go a long way. With stress, anxiety and depression coming up vivid in the lives of most people, an author Nancy Bankole is championing an age-old…
George Clooney’s Jay Kelly: A Midlife Crisis Drama That Hits Close to Home
It is self-indulgent, this movie. At the Venice Film Festival this week, George Clooney unveiled Jay Kelly, a film that strikes a nerve with actors and audiences alike by confronting the messy, unglamorous terrain of midlife crisis. On the surface, the…
Cloves Deserve a Place in Your Daily Meals
Cloves often play a subtle role in the culinary activities of humans; tucked into curries, steeped in teas, or hidden in spice blends. Yet this tiny bud holds centuries of wisdom in both traditional medicine and modern nutrition. Revered and widely used…
Nigeria’s Booming “Manpower” Market Raises Alarm Over Health Risks, Marital Strain
Why is there a mad rush for sexual enhancing pills or herbal concoction? To what end? Across Nigeria, brightly packaged bottles of bitters, pills with names like Wild Tiger, Black Stallion, Hyergra, and Rhino Max, alongside herbal concoctions are either…
Japanese City Proposes Two-Hour Smartphone Limit Amid Health Concerns
A city in central Japan has taken a bold step in addressing growing concerns about digital dependence, proposing regulations that would urge residents to limit smartphone use to just two hours a day outside of work and school. The draft ordinance,…
Why People in Singapore Live Longer Than Almost Anywhere Else
When it comes to longevity, Singapore is rewriting the playbook. In just six decades, the island city-state has gone from modest life expectancy rates to one of the highest in the world. A child born in Singapore in 1960 could only expect to live to…
Omodo: Domestic Servitude or Slavery?
Omodo, thats what its called in the popular parlance. For context “househelp“, an anglicized way to morph the hideous trend behind this domestic misnormer. A few years ago when Nigerian author Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani published her personal…