Olamide Olowe has made history by becoming the youngest black woman to raise over $10 million in funding. Olowe started Topicals in 2020 with the goal of creating safe, effective products for all skin tones after spending much of her childhood coping with chronic skin conditions like hyperpigmentation. In August 2020, she became the youngest Black woman entrepreneur to raise...
Tayo Ayinde, the Chief of Staff (CoS) to Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has lost his wife, Adedoyin Ojora Ayinde (nee Ojora). The deceased was also the niece of business tycoon and former AGIP Board Chairman, Adekunle Ojora. A statement signed by Olalekan Obasanya, on behalf of the family, announced that Doyin died on Sunday. It noted that she lived a...
A Nigerian woman, Patience Adesuwa Ajao is over the moon after her new role as the Branch Manager of a leading bank in Canada. Mrs Ajao recalled how people said she would never be promoted when she was employed as a Customer Service Representative with the bank eight years ago in a Facebook post on Saturday, November 12. She wrote: “Upon relocating to Canada...
Tonto Dikeh has revealed she doesn’t regret her past relationships because she put herself there. The actress said this in a recent interview with Chude Jideonwo. Recall that she dated Prince KpoKpogri years after her breakup with Churchill but it barely lasted two months. She said while her first relationship gave her a beautiful boy, the second relationship taught her...
A lady who jumped into the Lagos Lagoon on Third Mainland bridge on Thursday has been identified as Adetutu Adedokun. It was gathered that Adetutu, an operative of the Department of State Services (DSS) had disembarked from a cab, headed towards the railing of the bridge, and plunged into the water. The Permanent Secretary, of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Dr....
Nigerians continue to raise the bar the world over. Eight Nigerian-American politicians recently emerged winners in their respective elective posts in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and the District of Columbia (DC) in the ongoing US midterm elections. Out of these 8 politicians, 3 of them are women namely Tish Naghise, Carol Kazeem, and Esther Agbaje. Read their profiles below. 1. Esther...
It was a night of black heritage and afro culture as the much-awaited African premiere of Black Panther: Wakanda forever held in Lagos. The Black Panther stars Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, and director Ryan Coogler, had earlier on Sunday stormed Nigeria’s entertainment capital Lagos for the premiere. As usual, celebrities showed up and out in...
A woman of Nigerian descent, Amanda Azubuike has been promoted to brigadier general of the United States Army at a military base in Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA. Azubuike was born in London, United Kingdom, to Nigerian parents, and joined the US Army in 1994 where she rose to the position of an aviator after passing the Army Aviation Officer Basic...
A 23-year-old woman, Jessikah Inaba, has set a new record by becoming the UK’s first Black and blind barrister. Inaba qualified last week after studying for five years at the University of Law in London. She managed to complete her entire course using Braille and credits her friends and tutors for helping to fill in the gaps. Jess, from Camden,...
Former CNN Correspondent Isha Sesay is pregnant with her first child. The 46-year-old journalist shared her journey to having a child exclusively with news website, TODAY. She said: If you’d told the 16-year-old me that at 46, I’d be divorced, single and having a baby on my own — by choice! — I’d have shuddered and firmly said “no!”...