A lady has shown her creative side after she made a beautiful dress out of coins. Better known as Crescent Shay on Instagram with a following of over one million, this talent is known for her mind-blowing imaginative fashion projects. Describing the process of making the dress in parts, She embarked on a project to create a dress out of...
A Nigerian lady, Oluwaseyi Adewumi has broken a 59-year record at the University of Lagos after she emerged as the First Female to graduate as both the Best Graduating student in Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Best Female in the Faculty of Engineering at the University’s 2020 convocation. Adewumi who is a recipient of 11 scholarships and awards has...
Mo Abudu has been named the 98th most powerful woman in the world. The Ebonylife CEO was named on Forbes’ annual 100 Most Powerful Women In The World list which was released on Wednesday, December 8. The list features names of powerful women drawn from diverse backgrounds including musicians, politicians, athletes, etc. MacKenzie Scott is listed at No.1 for her...
Morayo Afolabi-Brown is a degree hotter. The ‘Your View’ host has bagged a Master’s degree in Media and Marketing Communications from Pan Atlantic University. She took to Instagram to share the news disclosing how her dreams of having a degree in media has finally come through. In 2005, I entered the media industry at CMC connect, a foremost PR company....
Movie producer and director, Bolanle Austen-Peters has secured the rights to produce a biopic on the legendary Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. The film, titled “Funmilayo: The Lioness of Lisabi,” is scheduled to be released in 2022/23. It will chronicle the life of the political activist and will include appearances from her grandchildren Femi Kuti, Yeni Kuti, and great-grandson Made Kuti. Expressing her excitement at producing...
A Nigerian lady, Zaynab Agboola, has emerged as the only female first-class student in a class comprising 92 students. In a post via Linked-In, Agboola, who graduated from the University of Ilorin shared her story and how she rose against all odds to achieve the huge feat. It’s been 6 years since I left the comfort of Lagos for Ilorin, Kwara...
A Nigerian woman, Ifeoma Bibiana Okoli, has bagged a Ph.D from the University of Ibadan (UI) despite being visually impaired. Okoli was among hundreds of graduands who were formally conferred with a doctorate degree at the university’s 73rd convocation ceremony on November 17, 2021. According to her sister who shared the news on Facebook, Ifeoma is the first visually-impaired person...
Media entrepreneur, Mo Abudu has achieved yet another record-breaking feat. Sharing the news on Instagram, The EbonyLife CEO revealed a major milestone partnership with Harvard Business School where her company will become a case study for MBA students. She wrote: For the first time in history, a case study about a media company led by a female, African entrepreneur will...
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, a professor of Law at Babcock University, Ogun State has won the coveted Nigeria Prize for Literature for her work ‘Son of the House’. The Nigeria Prize for Literature, worth $100,000 (N41million) is Africa’s most prestigious literary award. It rotates yearly amongst four literary categories: prose fiction, poetry, drama, and children’s literature. The 2021 winning entry ‘The Son of...
Dame Sandra Mason has been elected as Barbados’ first-ever president after she secured two-thirds of the vote in the country’s two houses of Parliament. The House voted 27-0 while the Senate voted 18-0. Mason was elected as the first-ever president of Barbados after the island announced in September 2020 that it would become a republic and Queen Elizabeth II would...