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The Mary Jane Mindset: Teenagers and Marijuana - Thu, 09 May 2013
As 17-year-old Radio Rookie Temitayo Fagbenle puts it, "Once you reach high school, weed is a part of your life." Even if you don't smoke, marijuana is at parties, the corners and parks near schools, and sometimes in school stairwells. In recent years, research shows fewer and fewer teenagers see using pot as risky. And opponents of the drug blame the changing attitudes at least partly on the ...
"That Could Be Your Sister"�: An Answer to Sexual Cyberbullying - Tue, 14 May 2013
A 16-year-old fights back against sexual photos of other teens posted online. Last year, when she was just 16, New York City high school student Temitayo Fagbenle created a scorching radio piece on sexual cyberbullying that aired nationally and internationally via the WNYC program "Radio Rookies." In it, she interviews and confronts one of her friends, who was arrested in the 8th grade for ...
Boko Haram: Policemen return to checkpoints - Mon, 22 Apr 2013
The fear of Boko Haram forces the police back to checkpoints in the nation's most commercial city, writes TEMITAYO FAMUTIMI Against the backdrop of the arrest of five suspected members of the fundamentalist Islamist sect, Boko Haram, in Lagos on March 21, men and officers of the Nigeria Police have begun to mount road blocks...  [Read More...]
Commercial sureties hold Lagos courts to ransom - Mon, 13 May 2013
Touts who operate in court premises in Lagos now make brisk business standing as sureties for desperate defendants, reports Temitayo Famutimi In the past, activities of touts on the premises of Lagos magistrates' and high courts were limited to issuance of documents "“ often fake "“ such as affidavits of age declaration, marriage certificates, divorce...  [Read More...]
Don't hand over our school to private operators, pupils beg Fashola - Thu, 25 Apr 2013
A plan by Lagos State Government to hand over Aunty Ayo Girls' Comprehensive Secondary School, Ikoyi, Lagos, unsettles the minds of stakeholders, TEMITAYO FAMUTIMI reports Pupils of Aunty Ayo Girls' Comprehensive Secondary School, Ikoyi, Lagos and their parents have kicked against plans by the state government to hand over the school to private operators. They...  [Read More...]