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  • C/River First Lady hosts Southern Governors’ Wives in Calabar

    By Frank Ulom

    The First Lady of Cross River State, Dr. Linda Ayade on Thursday hosted all the First Ladies from the southern part of Nigeria at her maiden Southern Governors Wives’ Forum in Calabar, the state capital.

    The Southern Governors Wives’ Forum comprises of States in the South-South, South-East and South-West geopolitical zones.

    The wives of the Governors who could not take their eyes off the aesthetic nature of the state, right from the Margaret Ekpo International Airport through the beautiful city of Calabar to the Presidential Lodge, testified to the hospitality the state is known for.

    Mrs. Ayade who has been able to attract the meeting to the state amidst her predecessors through her pet projects, Mediatrix Development Foundation (MDF) and Cross River Women Empowerment Initiative (CROWEI) was filled with joy while meeting with her colleagues and their entourages.

    The meeting will be a 3-day event, with Thursday 26th 2017 (i.e. today) being the arrival of the Southern Governors Wives to Calabar.

    Friday, 27th October 2017 will feature a courtesy call on the Governor of Cross River State, interactive sessions with women, and an empowerment ceremony for women at Adiabo Town Hall, Tinapa. The meeting is expected to be rounded off with a Dinner/Gala Night at the Dome, Calabar Municipal Council.

    Meanwhile, Saturday will feature a get-together and departure of the guests.

    Elsewhere, the state Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade who is a gender-friendly Governor is pleased to welcome the Wives of his colleagues from the southern states of Nigeria.

    Ayade who felt many women would be touched and their lives lifted, commended his amiable wife for her empowerment initiative for women, which has been scheduled as a major feature of the Governors’ Wives meeting.

    The Forum is headed by Dr. Eneoma Nkechi Rochas Okorocha as Chairman.

  • I married my wife a virgin – Ayade (Video)

    I married my wife a virgin – Ayade (Video)

    By Frank Ulom

    The Executive Governor of Cross River State, Prof. Sen. Ben Ayade says he married his wife as a virgin which is the pride of Africans who value the virtues of virginity and chastity.

    Ayade who publicly made the statement in Calabar on Thursday while delivering a lecture on the HIV/AIDS scourge to mark the 2016 World AIDS Day, stated that the greatest gift any woman can possibly hand to her husband is to present her body as a virgin to him.

    “I should say to the teenagers here today that when somebody leads you to the altar, at the end of that day he should be glad to say, I married my wife a virgin,” Ayade said.

    The governor stated that young people easily give in to sex for financial inducement, peer pressure and the influence of international movies and believe that with the use of a condom, they are secure from getting infected with HIV which in most cases is not full-proof protection against the pandemic disease.

    “When people use condom, they think they are safe which is the major cause of infection because evidence abounds that the use of a condom does not provide total protection against HIV/AIDS since the condom itself has small holes that are 0.05 wider than microbes which makes HIV virus to pass successfully,” he added.

    He said the best protection against infection is total abstinence and testing before marriage by couple and staying faithful to each other because the virus has the capacity to live in the body of an infected person for 25 years in some cases before the viral load overwhelms the body.

    “During such a time, a person with the virus he becomes an effective carrier of the disease which gives him/her the chance to infect others during unprotected sex,” he said.

    Dr Rose Nyambi, the Director General of the State Action Committee Against AIDS, SACA, also gave her remark saying, that the state has 164,267 persons, 108,000 females and 61,827 males living positively with the virus.

    “It may interest you to know that SACA has been housing the Network of People Living with HIV. We have a directory of 80 support groups of people Living with the virus with a total of 164,267 comprising of 103,000 females and 61,827 males and out of this number, 25,907 are on ART,” she said.

    She called for the scaling up of more HIV counseling and testing services by getting everyone in the state to know their HIV status if the state must achieve the global vision of ensuring that 90% of people know their status so that those who test positive are placed on treatment.

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  • 5 Must have shoes for men that will add to your ego and style (Photo Guide)

    1. Joseph Cheaney & Sons Shoes. Classic with a twist.
    2. Barker Jackson in Tweed and Cedar
    3.  Edwards of Manchester
    4. Oxford Brogue Shoe – Guri by Ted Baker
    5. Brown Wingtip Brogues