Tag: Blind
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What Man Utd can expect from Onana – Daley Blind
Manchester United goalkeeper Andre Onana has received significant praise this week. The Cameroonian, who has experienced a tough start to life at the club,
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Lady married to visually impaired man shares her love story
A Nigerian lady, Maimunatu Sa’idu, has said that she decided to get married to a blind teacher, Dahuru Abdulhamid Idris, because she loves him the most among her other suitors. Saidu and Idris got married in Zakirai town of Gezawa Local Government Area, in Kano state on Friday, May 12
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Man laments how an attack by a power drunk Airforce officer on his left eye made him blind+Photos
A Nigerian citizen, Atanda Muheeb narrates a bitter life experience he encountered with an unidentified Airforce officer that made his left eye suffered a permanent rupture. An ordinary day that started just like any other one
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NOVA Merchant Bank supports blind, partially sighted kids from Pacelli School
As part of its efforts towards commemorating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, NOVA Merchant Bank visited the Pacelli School for the Blind and Partially Sighted, Surulere, Lagos, last Thursday, donating valuable goods and materials worth millions of naira. The International Day of Persons Living with Disabilities is a day set-aside by the…
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From faith to faith – By Femi Aribisala
All men are born blind. Even those of us who can see are also blind. We think we can see because we see natural things. But, in reality, we are blind because we cannot see spiritual things.
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Is Vision 2050 a case of the blind leading the rest of us?, By Dele Sobowale
IS VISION 2050 A CASE OF THE BLIND LEADING THE REST OF US? “Such men fight the campaigns of the future, while all the world around them sleep. But, when the time comes, though themselves be gone, the roads they planned are and straight for the march of others….the spirit they call up still lives…
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Budget 2019 and the Blind Leading the Blind, By Henry Boyo
By Henry Boyo President Muhammed Buhari, finally laid the 2019 budget before the National Assembly, on Wednesday 19th December 2018; that is, barely 2 days before Parliament vacated for the Year End holidays. Incidentally, there was no apparent regret, nor indeed explanation why this mandatory process took so long; arguably, however, tardy implementation and…
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Fixing artificial eyelashes can make you go blind, physician warns
A medical practitioner, Dr Ayopo Adeyemi, on Sunday warned women against the use of artificial eyelashes, commonly used to enhance beauty, in view of its grievous consequences. Adeyemi told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the health implications of fixing false eyelashes included corneal abrasions or ulcers, damage of the natural eyelashes,…
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MPC and the blind leading the blind, By Henry Boyo
By Henry Boyo The Central Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee, on Wednesday 4th April, 2018, decided to retain its Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) at 14 percent, while mandatory Cash Reserve Ratio for Banks, would remain at 22.5 percent. Disturbingly, however, there is no real hope that, such rates which have subsisted for almost three years and…