Oby Ezekwesili has accepted to head the transition team of the Governor-elect of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo. Ezekwesili is part of an 80-man committee saddled with the responsibility of ensuring a smooth transition of power from the administration of Governor Willie Obiano to Soludo on March 17. The ex-Minister of Education confirmed her acceptance via her official Twitter page...
Nimi Akinkugbe is celebrating her first six months in office as Nigeria’s Ambassador to Greece. The personal finance expert who is also the CEO of Bestman Games was appointed in June 2021 making her the country’s first female ambassador to Greece. 14 Things To Know About Nigeria’s First Female Ambassador To Greece, Nimi Akinkugbe In a video she shared via...
British Vogue has revealed its February 2022 cover featuring nine black women who are ‘redefining what it means to be a model’. It is the first time Vogue has featured a group of black women this size on the cover as the issue celebrates the rise of the African model and talks to some of those ‘redrawing the map’ and...
Nicole Chikwe, wife of Nigerian singer Naeto C has opened up on how she was body-shamed by Nigerians online. In a series of posts, she revealed that people took to Twitter at different times between 2010 to 2012 just to criticize her looks. She admitted that it affected her especially because she was young but she soon developed thick skin....
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Foundation, an independent entity complementing WHO has appointed Mrs. Toyin Saraki as the inaugural WHO Foundation Ambassador for Global Health. This is contained in a statement jointly issued by the WHO Foundation and Wellbeing Foundation on Wednesday in Lagos. The Chief Executive Officer, WHO Foundation, Mr. Anil Soni, described Saraki as a highly esteemed global advocate, with decades...
Reality TV star and entrepreneur, Kylie Jenner has made history after becoming the first woman to cross 300 million followers on Instagram. This also makes her the third most-followed account on the photo-sharing platform. The first is Instagram’s official account (460 million) and in second place is footballer Cristiano Ronaldo (who has 388 million). Singers Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Deputy Governor, Mrs. Aisha Ahmad, has been appointed the chairman of the re-constituted board of the Nigeria Commodity Exchange (NCX) Plc. In addition, three new directors were appointed for the exchange, out of which Ahmad was one of them. Others included CBN Director, Development Finance Department, Mr. Yusuf Yila and Dr. Angela Sere-Ejembi. A...
Oby Ezekwesili, a former Minister of Education has warned that Money will fail Nigerian political leaders declaring to run for presidency in 2023. This comes hours after the National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu informed the President of his ambition to contest in the 2023 presidential election. Ezekwesili on her Twitter page, while kicking against...
Nigeria’s Amina Mohammed has been reappointed as the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. Ms. Mohammed, who is also the Chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group, will now serve a second term in this capacity. Accepting her reappointment, Ms. Mohammed wrote on Twitter, “I am deeply humbled to serve a second term as UN Deputy Secretary-General alongside @antonioguterres.” “I...
Poet and activist Maya Angelou has become the first Black woman to appear on the US Quarter, in a new version of the coin unveiled by the US Mint on Monday. Angelou, author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” will also be the first figure commemorated through the American Women Quarters Program, which was signed into law in...