Miss Nicaragua wins Miss Universe 2023 with an answer about feminism Sheynnis Palacios, Miss Nicaragua, was crowned Miss Universe 2023 at the annual beauty pageant on Saturday night in El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador. With Palacios’ victory, the 23-year-old communicologist became the first woman from Nicaragua to win Miss Universe. She previously competed for Nicaragua in the 2017 Teen Miss...
1,145 fatal gender-based violent cases were recorded, and 393 perpetrators were convicted within the period under review. Nigeria recorded 27,698 acts of sexual and gender-based violence between 2020 and 2023. Sunday Agbakaba, the Data Manager, Federal Ministry Women of Affairs, stated this during the train-the-trainers workshop on the use of the GBV dashboard and reportage on Tuesday in Umuahia. He...
Leo Da Silva’s wife is none other than Maryam Laushi, an activist and advocate for women’s empowerment. Ex-BBNaija star Leo Da Silva got tongues wagging over the weekend when the news of his traditional wedding to Maryam Laushi emerged. In a tweet on Saturday, November 11, he revealed that he was in Kaduna for a wedding, but Airpeace Airlines had...
Helen Williams receives her GWR for the world’s longest handmade wig. A Nigerian wig maker, Helen Williams, has written her name in the history books of the Guinness World Records (GWR) for making the longest handmade wig ever. What is more remarkable is that she is the first person in the world to set this record. According to the GWR...
Diary of a Kitchen Lover is now a mother!!! Congratulations are in order for popular chef, Chef T of Diary of a Kitchen Lover as she welcomes her first child, a baby girl. Making the announcement on Friday via her Instagram page, she shared a behind-the-scenes video that has gone viral. She wrote: Chef T is a mum 🥺🥺 Little...
Nigeria’s first female major general, Aderonke Kale, has died at the age of 84 in London. E. O. Okafor, the president of the Alumni Association of the National Institute (AANI), confirmed Kale’s death in a statement released on Thursday. While mourning her departure, Okafor described her demise as an “irreparable loss,” adding that burial arrangements would be announced by her...
Nollywood actress Regina Daniels has emphatically stated that she would rather donate her kidney to her husband and father of her children, Ned Nwoko, than to her own biological father. This revelation came to light during a discussion on organ donation while on the set of her new movie, Switching Places. The mother of two explained that if her biological father...
The actress who was named 2023 Global Artist in Residence at the University of Michigan resumes duty. Actress Omowumi Dada has resumed duties as a lecturer at the University of Michigan. The award-winning actress was selected as the University of Michigan’s 2023 Global Artist in Residence. Recall that Dada made the announcement via her Instagram page in a post on...
Records are made to be broken, they say! An Irish chef, Alan Fisher, has done the unimaginable after breaking not only Hilda Baci’s record but another record for baking making it two Guinness World Records. Fisher who is based in Japan, cooked continuously for 119 hours and 57 minutes, surpassing the previous record of 93 hours and 11 minutes set...
The Real Housewives of Lagos Season 2 is currently on, and there is one name making headlines regularly: Faith Morey. Faith Morey, one of the two new members of the cast alongside Tania Omotayo, has warmed her way into the hearts of lovers and followers of the show, which premiered on September 29, with her poise, class, style, charisma, and...