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Designing a Home for You and Your Child

By Miracle Nwankwo

Let me take you down memory lane, back to your days as a spinster when you dreamt of an adorable home furnished and designed with the best interiors that would make anyone dream of coming back home, but here you are today and it seems as if you have been struck with reality. As an interior decoration enthusiast, having kids and staying true to your design aesthetic can be challenging, but friend, you don’t have to give up on your fantasies like some, who believe that having kids means kissing goodbye to the freedom and fun of decorating your home, but I beg to differ!

Nigeria: Lagos State First Lady, Others Seek Work-Friendly Environment for Women

Wife of the Lagos State Governor, Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, and other stakeholders have implored managers of organisations, to create work-friendly places for lactating mothers to take care of their babies.

They urged stakeholders, especially the private sector in other states to support family-friendly policies like six months maternity leaves, and workplace crèche to enable working mothers to breastfeed their babies exclusively as well as see it as an investment in human capital development.

Women the Most Undertapped Resource for Development – Audrey Joy Grant

An old and reverberated cliché – ‘’Women represent the least valued and the most under-tapped resource,’’ remains true today as it was in time past. The US executive and author Sheryl Sandberg could not have put it better when she said “We must raise both the ceiling and the floor’’ in our struggle to get more women to the top. ‘’When women access their rightful opportunities when their talents are made to shine without hesitation when they have access to education, training and finance when their standing is determined by results and not gender, the effect will be spectacularly transformative, and will represent a return on investment beyond what is imagined by the most progressive amongst us.’’