Media personality and Your View Host, Morayo Afolabi-Brown has lost her mother at age 75. Coincidentally, she also shares the same birthday with her, (July 6). Announcing the sad news via her Instagram page on Wednesday evening, she wrote: My dearest mother. You came, you saw, you conquered and triumphed. May your soul Rest In Peace. Amen. 75years of God’s...
Fatima Waziri-Azi has resumed office officially as the director-general of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). Recall that Buhari had approved the appointment of Fatima Waziri-Azi as the new DG of NAPTIP on September 8, 2021. Waziri-Azi takes over from Basheer Mohammed, who barely spent six months. Sharing a photo of her first day at...
YouTube today announced the appointment of Addy Awofisayo as Head of Music, Sub-saharan Africa for YouTube and YouTube Music. Addy will be in charge of YouTube Music’s business and partnership teams in Sub-Saharan Africa, and she will report to the Head of Music, YouTube EMEA. Addy Awofisayo, incoming Head of Music, Sub-Saharan Africa said: “Music is a powerful medium...
Risikat Ajoke Adegeye, wife of Juju maestro, King Sunny Ade, is dead. She died after a brief illness in the early hours of Tuesday, a day to the singer’s 75th birthday. In a statement, Folarin, son of the former Member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, said her remains have been deposited at the TOS funeral homes in Lagos. “We...
Two Japanese sisters have been certified by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest living identical twins ever at over 107 years and 300 days. Umeno Sumiyama and Koume Kodama were born the third and fourth of 11 siblings on Shodoshima Island in western Japan on Nov. 5, 1913. They were separated after elementary school, when Kodama was sent to...
Dr. Sian Proctor has made history as the first black woman to pilot a spacecraft. Known as the Inspiration4, the crew consisting of three other people blasted off into space in a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Daily Mail reported. 51-year-old Proctor was announced as an Inspiration4 crew member back in March after she was selected as the top entrant of an independently judged online...
Union Bank of Nigeria Plc (‘’Union Bank’’) has announced the appointment of Ms Aisha Abubakar into its Board, as an Independent Non-Executive Director, effective from 9th of September 2021. The Bank, in a statement filed with the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) today, revealed that the appointment has been approved by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). It would be recalled...
Miss Abuja, Oluchi Madubuike has emerged winner of the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 2021. The event was held on Saturday, September 19, 2021 at the Eko Hotel And Suites. Oluchi beat 36 other contestants to the crown. Miss Anambra, Maristella Okpala emerged first runner-up and will represent Nigeria at the Miss Universe pageant. Here are 9 things to know...
Brussels, a city in Belgium, has said it will name a new street after a murdered Nigerian sex worker, Eunice Osayande, as part of a wider campaign to recognize women. Osayande, who came to the Belgian capital in 2016 in a quest for a brighter future, was stabbed to death by one of her customers in June 2018. She believed...
Google has dedicated a special doodle to mark the 133rd birth anniversary of Japanese biochemist Michiyo Tsujimura today, September 2021. Tsujimura is a popular name in the world of science due to her ground-breaking research on the nutritional benefits of green tea. The doodle features a graphical representation of Tsujimura working in her laboratory with a cup of green tea,...