Four stu­dents of North­east­ern Col­lege have pub­licly apol­o­gised for fight­ing on the very first day of the new aca­d­e­m­ic year last week.

Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein said yes­ter­day there is a void in the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty fol­low­ing the death of Sheik Lisha Ltd man­ag­ing di­rec­tor Churchill Azad Akaloo.

Oc­tavia E. But­ler once not­ed: “All strug­gles are es­sen­tial­ly pow­er strug­gles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will de­fine, re­fine, con­fine, de­sign? Who will dom­i­nate? All strug­gles are es­sen­tial­ly pow­er strug­gles, and most are no more in­tel­lec­tu­al than two rams knock­ing their heads to­geth­er.”

Last De­cem­ber, African singer/record­ing artist Tan­do N’Ko­su re­leased the spo­ken-word/at­mos­pher­ic track and al­bum project, I Am Africa (stylised I Am Afri­ka), which per­son­i­fies the African con­ti­nent as an eter­nal, di­vine moth­er. It speaks about the land, its peo­ple, and its heart­beat – cel­e­brat­ing African her­itage, na­ture, and iden­ti­ty.

Sep­tem­ber is Gy­nae­co­log­ic Can­cer Aware­ness Month, and this year it feels par­tic­u­lar­ly sig­nif­i­cant to me. My ca­reer in gy­nae­co­log­i­cal on­col­o­gy now spans two decades, and when I look back, I re­alise that can­cer has not on­ly shaped my pro­fes­sion­al life but has changed the way I see women’s health­care al­to­geth­er.