Author: Peace Sunday

No fewer than five persons died in a ghastly accident that occurred in the wee hours of Thursday along the Kara axis of Lagos-Ibadan expressway. Eye witness account said the incident, which involved a truck and some vehicles occurred when a truck in attempt to avoid another ran into a vehicle parked on the road since last month along Berger/Kara axis of the expressway. The accident, which happened at 3 a.m. after heavy downpours, led to a gridlock on the highway as motorists on both sides of the roads were stuck for hours while others took alternative routes to their…

The Nigerian airwaves and social media space were recently greeted with the news stories on the outbreak of the monkeypox virus. According to recent reports from the Nigeria Centre for Disease for Disease Control (NCDC), the virus which started few weeks back with an index case in Bayelsa State – the Niger Delta region was ferried to Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Delta, Ekiti, Enugu, Imo, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Rivers and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), with more than 31 cases. It is worthwhile to note that if conscious and assiduous measures were not taken throughout the 36 states of the…

OPINION – Peace Sunday Sex education is regarded as a deliberate knowledge given to a teenager to enlighten him or her on issues relating to human sexuality. It is most necessary and in fact a fundamental information every teenager should first be armed with, at the home front before he or she gets it elsewhere.  According to Science Daily, sex education is “a broad term used to describe education about human sexual anatomy, sexual reproduction, sexual intercourse, and other aspects of human sex behavior”. As many parents are saddled with numerous such responsibilities as provision of basic necessities, schooling, bills…