Japan’s Princess Mako has married her non-royal college sweetheart Kei Komuro formally giving up her royal status. The couple submitted their registration at the local ward office around 10 a.m. local time Tuesday, according to the Imperial Household Agency, forgoing the usual pomp and circumstance of most royal weddings. Mako, who turned 30 over the weekend, announced her engagement with Komuro four years ago but their...
A Nigerian lady named Kinfe has emerged top of her class despite suffering a double tragedy. She lost her father in 100 level shortly after losing her mother. Kinfe graduated as Best Graduating Student with a 4.92 CGPA from the Department of Civil Engineering. She was part of the recent graduands of Covenant University. Sharing her story on Instagram, she...
Actress, Mercy Johnson has gone on a rant on Instagram over claims that her daughter, Purity is being bullied by a teacher. The actress revealed how the said teacher has been bullying 8-year-old Purity for the last two weeks just because she doesn’t like her (Mercy Johnson). She captioned it: What do you do when the teacher is actually the...
Ajibola Abitoye has been re-elected as a councilor in the city of Fort Saskatchewan, Province of Alberta, in Canada. Abitoye, popularly called Jibs, first won the election in 2017, five years after she immigrated from Nigeria. She won her constituency seat at the October 18 election, where she slugged it out with 12 other white candidates. Taking to her Facebook...
Joy Adesina has made headlines after she emerged as the overall best graduating student from the College of Medicine, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Joy, who is a niece of the president of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, broke the university’s record in medicine with an exceptional feat, claiming nine top awards and ten distinctions. Dr. Victor Oladokun, a...
Jackie B is celebrating her son, Nathan on his 10th birthday today, October 17. The BBNaija star took to Instagram to pen an emotional message as she shared cute photos of him. My entire world in one not so little human. I named you Nathan because you’re truly God’s gift to me. I don’t know what I did to deserve...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, on Wednesday, October 15 recognised Henrietta Lacks, a Black American woman, for her world-changing legacy with a special award. In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a Black mother of five who was dying of cervical cancer, went to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for treatment. Researchers took a sample of cells from Lacks’s body without her...
A Turkish woman, Rumelysa Gelgi who stands at 7 feet, 0.7 inches has been declared the world’s tallest woman by Guinness World Records. The 24-year-old’s height is due to a rare condition called Weaver syndrome that causes accelerated growth among other symptoms including skeletal maturation, GWR said in a statement. As a result, she uses a wheelchair to get around...
Fred Amata’s sister, Erumena Amata, has gone viral after he shared her emotional story on social media on how she got married for the first time at age 64. He revealed that her story was a testimony of faith. Amata wrote, “Sister Mena grew up in a strict environment of high morality. She would develop to become an example of...
British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, used a walking stick as she arrived for a service of thanksgiving to mark the centenary of the Royal British Legion at Westminster Abbey on Tuesday. The 95-year-old was accompanied by her daughter, Princess Anne, as she stepped out of a car in London this morning. She was handed the stick after stepping from her...