All posts tagged "Profiles"
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630ProfilesThese Four Nigerian Beauty Influencers Have Millions Of Subscribers On YouTube!
Top four Nigerians beauty vloggers killing it on Youtube!
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463ProfilesChinonye Chukwu Becomes First Black Woman To Win Sundance Biggest Prize
Chinonye Chukwu, has become the first Black woman to win the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize for her U.S. Dramatic entry,...
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632ProfilesRuth Oshikanlu Has Been Appointed As A Member Of The Order Of The British Empire (MBE) For Her Services To Community Nursing
Ruth also works very closely with the Nigerian Nurses Charitable Association in the UK, and mentors several Nigerian nurses via a virtual...
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6441ProfilesAdenike Oyetunde Launches Her Autobiography To Inspire Love, Hope and Faith Against All Odds
Diagnosed with the cancer of the bone at 20 and having one of the limbs cut off, Adenike has since moved on...
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7561NewsChimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Books Are Increasingly Being Read In China
With more than 100,000 copies of her previous works sold, between 8,000 and 10,000 copies of Dear Ijeawele will be published for...
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562ProfilesFunmilola Fagbamila’s ‘Black Girls Fly’ Is A Must Read For Every Black Girl!
Society says, "don't do this because you are a girl and you're black", but Funmilola says, "challenge stereotypes and you will go...
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7754ProfilesElizabeth Kperrun Is The First Nigerian Woman To Be Shortlisted For Africa Engineering Prize
Shortlisted for developing Zenafri, an app that teaches toddlers basic language and numeracy skills in their native tongue, Elizabeth will be the...
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430ProfilesThis Is How Adesuwa Aighewi Wants To Change The Way The World Sees Africa
“I want to show what Africa is from an African’s point of view, and the quickest way to educate people is through...
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430ProfilesTemilayo Abodunrin Started Playing The Saxophone At 6, Now She Is Working To Release An Album This Year
Temilayo Abodunrin is a nine year old saxophonist, who started playing at the age of six.
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600ProfilesSekinat Quadri Started Boxing When She Was 5. Now She’s 7 and Her Aspirations Are Growing Bigger
When I first told my mum that I wanted to be a boxer, my mum said, no, that I am a girl...
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750ProfilesNoo Saro-Wiwa Makes The Conde Nast Traveller ‘30 Most Influential Female Travellers’ In 2018 List
Born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and raised in England, Noo is the daughter of the iconic activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa. She attended King’s...
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532Personal StoriesHow Gloria Atanmo Defied Her Parents To Turn Her Passions Into Paycheck
So, for three years, she decided to do what her parents wanted but she wasn’t happy doing it. After failing the first...
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8921ProfilesRoheemah Arogundade and Kehinde Lawal Broke A 21-Year Old Record At Obafemi Awolowo University
However, at their school’s 43rd convocation ceremony, the women were announced as the first class graduates of the department. Interestingly, this comes...
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830ProfilesThree Nigerian women made the 2018 Forbes list of Top 50 Women In Technology
The list is said to identify generations of forward-thinking technologists leading more than a dozen tech sectors across the globe.
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7651ProfilesWe Have Never Seen Anything Like What Barbara Kemigisa Is Doing To Create Awareness About HIV/AIDS
Barbara Kemigisa was four years old when her parents separated, she had to live with her grandmother. Unfortunately, her uncles started sexually...
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594ProfilesMo Fayose Offers Christmas Dinner To Lonely People In Nottingham
In an interview with BBC she said she had "been through it all" in life, including the breakdown of her marriage and...
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1.1KProfilesYagazie Emezi Is Using Her Story And Her Art To Address Violence Against Women And The Vulnerable Young In Nigeria
The day that his father came for me, I prayed & prayed & with all my heart, wished him dead. I was...
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5641ProfilesHow Sandra Igwe Is Providing Support Black Mothers Through Her Motherhood Group
After Sandra Igwe had her baby girl, she started to get anxious about if she was raising her right. She soon met...
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553Profiles11-Year-Old Misimi Isimi Is On The Mission To Save Lagos From Environmental Waste
Misimi Isimi is an 11-year old advocate for the environment. Coming from a family that is Eco-friendly inspired, her interest in the...
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485ProfilesNadine Ijewere Becomes The First Black Woman To Shoot A Vogue Cover
“….. Nadine Ijewere – who, with her portrait of global superstar Dua Lipa (herself a remarkable game changer) has become the first...
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589Cover GirlSomeone Once Offered To Buy Her Business And Give Her Two Cars, A House And Other Riches Of The World, But Eno Essien Said NO
Hearing from two mothers, I turned the offer down. Some weeks ago, he called to ask how my business was faring as...
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474ProfilesThey Are Black, They Are Women, They Are Disabled – They Are Here And Are Not Going To Be Ignored Any Longer
Olajumoke, who is a Nigerian has polio, while Kym, a Ghanaian, has multiple sclerosis.
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467ProfilesThis Is Why Farida Bedwei Created A Comic Book Hero With Cerebral Palsy
Growing up, Farida loved reading about superheros but she never found a superhero with her condition, so, she decided to create one...
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545ProfilesEzinne Kwubiri is the First Head of Inclusion and Diversity for H&M North America
As the new Head of Inclusion and Diversity, Ezinne will report directly to the president of H&M North America — as well...
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607Profiles4 Nigerian Women Make The 2018 BBC 100 Women List
Well done!
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742Profiles19-Year Old Mirabelle Morah Is Building A Strong Community Of Young African Writers
“There was always this fear, ‘if I try this, it might fail. What if I’m not good enough? But then, the whole...
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826ProfilesTito Ovia Makes The 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 List
Tito is a public health enthusiast passionate about improving the quality of healthcare in Nigeria. Her passion led her to co-founding Helium...
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801Profiles7-Year Old Moyinoluwa Oluwaseun Is One Good Photographer!
Growing up, Moyinoluwa had a toy camera she was so attached to. So, when she clocked 3, her grandmother, who is also...
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1.0KProfilesDoyinsola Ogunye Deserves All The Accolades For Making Lagos Beaches Clean And Saving The Turtles!
Growing up, Doyinsola played on the shorelines of Lagos State with sand and sand castle toys. While at the university, she always...
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1.0KProfilesAdejoke Lasisi Is Recycling Old and Abandoned Aso Oke Into Other Beautiful Things
Many couples after the wedding, abandons their aso-oke. Just like people who use it keep it away until they need it again....