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ADA AGADA... TO BE UNDER-RATED WHEN IT IS OBVIOUS YOU ARE TOP CLASS IS A VERY UNENVIABLE PREDICAMENT. Femi Ojo

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Ada Agada with his groundbreaking internationally acclaimed book Ada Agada is a Benue-born Nigerian young philosopher, novelist, poet and political commentator. He was born in the Idoma-speaking area of Central Nigeria and was educated at Benue State University, Markurdi, and presently a doctoral student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The young scholar in his 30’s is the author of the groundbreaking award-winning work in African philosophy/thought, “EXISTENCE AND CONSOLATION: REINVENTING ONTOLOGY, GNOSIS AND VALUES IN AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY . As a novelist, Ada Agada has written about ten great novels and has over one thousand poems to his credit. He’s often under-rated by his teachers and many others but with his recent international groundbreaking work in faraway America has made those who under-rated him know he is a scholar too difficult to be ignored. I interviewed him recently on his new international award winning book, politics and many more, please enjoy the in...

OMOTAYO ATINUKE JUNAID...MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN MENSTRUAL HYGIENE AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OF RURAL WOMEN AND ADOLESCENT GIRLS IN NIGERIA . Femi Ojo

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Omotayo Atinuke Junaid It was sometime in the last quarter of year 2015 that my wife called my attention to an amazing project being championed by Omotayo Atinuke Junaid, a young Nigerian lady in her early twenties. “ Safe and Smart Period” is the name of the project and Atinuke is the initiator. ‘Femi, if your blog is about writing on exceptional people doing amazing stuffs in our country, this young lady, Omotayo is doing great stuffs for underprivileged rural girls and even older women by providing them sanitary pads free of charge and educating them on proper menstrual hygiene practice, please hubby, I think you should interview her and give her a voice on your blog” my wife pleaded. This is how to do it...Smart and Safe Period for our Underprivileged Girls I took my time, did a little research and indeed I found out that Omotayo Atinuke Junaid is truly making a difference in the area of menstrual hygiene and reproductive health of women and adolescent ...