The Senate in Abuja on Thursday passed a bill that will legally protect persons with disability from discrimination. Sponsored by Sen. Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman (PDP-Kogi), the bill seeks to integrate such persons into the society and establish a commission for persons with disability. The bill, titled ‘Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Bill, 2014′, prescribes a fine of N1m for corporate bodies and N100,000 or six months imprisonment or both for an individual who contravenes the law. Sen. Adamu Gumba (PDP-Bauchi) presented the report of the Senate Joint Committee on Sports, Social Development and Women Affairs on the bill. Gumba, who is the Chairman of the joint committee, said that over 10 per cent of Nigerians had disabilities. “Over 10 per cent of Nigeria’s population is said to be disabled by sheer providence or accident and these people are daily confronted with several challenges. “One of the most prominent among these challenges is gr...
Jose Mourinho has hit back at Yaya Toure’s accusation that the Chelsea boss showed a lack of respect to other English teams by talking openly about their chances in the Champions League in the last week. Toure, who was part of the Manchester City side that lost in Barcelona the day after Arsenal’s Champions League exit to Bayern Munich, was unhappy with Mourinho’s comments, but speaking ahead of Chelsea’s trip to Aston Villa, he insisted his words were only made out of support Hello José “If to say before the Munich and Camp Nou matches that these matches are not over, that Arsenal and City have enough quality to go there and turn things around, if to support the teams from the country where I work, if this is a lack of respect, okay that’s a lack of respect,” said Mourinho. “But I think that Arsenal and Manchester City showed that I was right, that they had enough quality to do it. They played very good matches, so I don’t think this is a lack of respect, this is support. ...
Menstruation is a part of most women’s lives for years (and years): Menopause typically begins around age 50, and girls in the U.S. tend to get their periods somewhere between 12 and 13 — although puberty is beginning at younger and younger ages. Which means, women generally deal with their periods for roughly four decades (and use around 11,800 tampons, according to some estimates floating around on the Internet). But how much do we really know about menstruation? Between botched s*x-ed classes; rushed doctor’s visits; pop culture portrayals that make our periods seem epically icky; and Dr. Google being a notoriously unreliable source, many of us have significant gaps in our menstruation know-how. And it matters. “I think it’s good for women to know about how their bodies function,” explained Lois McGuire, a women’s health nurse practitioner and instructor in obstetrics and gynecology with the Mayo Clinic, It helps us know what’s typical, personally, and what’s not, so we can f...
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