Amasa Firdaus, the Nigerian Law School graduate who was refused her call to the bar for failing to remove her hijab, has said that her defiance was to challenge the status quo, and her demand remains the need to approve the use of hijabs among Muslim law graduates. In an interview with Premium Times, Firdaus, a UNILORIN law graduate, maintained...
A law school graduate identified as Amasa Firdaus wasn’t called to the Nigerian bar on the 12th of December 2017 because she was wearing Muslim apparel for women known as a hijab. Firdaus, a 2.1 graduate from the University of Ilorin, refused to remove her hijab as she insisted on wearing her wig on it. With the failure of Amasa...
Twitter user, Miss Teriba has every reason to be grateful to God as she reminisces over the events of the year. In a post which she shared on Twitter, the young lady thanked God for making her witness another year, at the same time remembering her parents who had died early that year. Nigerian Lady Emerges Overall Outstanding Student From...
Viola-Nuela Echebima, a 2016 first-class law graduate from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, who also finished with a first class at the Nigerian Law School, emerged as the best graduating student. The pretty lawyer was among the 4,294 candidates called to the Nigerian Bar on Tuesday, December 12th, 2017. She is one of the 28 candidates who bagged a First...
Media Mogul and talk show host, Oprha Winfrey has just added another colourful feather to her cap as she is pronounced the winner of the Cecil B. de Mille Golden Globe Award. This is the very first time a black woman will be winning the award The Cecil B. de Mille Award is given annually to a talented individual who...
Nigerian-American Omarosa Manigault-Newman has resigned from her role as Director of Communication for the Office of Public Liaison under the President Donald Trump administration. Many of us might remember her as the smart-mouthed participant in the 2004 ‘The Apprentice,’ starring business mogul and current American president, Donald Trump. After coming in second place on the show, she became the only Apprentice to...
Nigerian-American actress Yvonne Orji is popular for her role in the hit TV series ‘Insecure,’ where she played a hotshot lawyer with a messy love life. What many don’t know about the talented actress who hails from Port-Harcourt in Rivers State is the struggles she had to overcome before hitting it big in Hollywood. Recounting a period when she didn’t...
Popular media personality and author, Toke Makinwa recently shared a piece of advice with a fan who made a comment on one of her posts on Instagram. Toke had made a post about being honest with who we are and how having a standard will help us get rid of people who are not meant to be a part of...
Nollywood actress, Moji Olaiya has been rated by Google as the most searched person of the year 2017. Nigerian Woman Who Got Married For The First Time At 53 Welcomes Her First Child At 56 The actress died in Canada on May 17, two months after delivering her second daughter and the world received the news with great grief. Perhaps...
A Nigerian woman simply identified as Mrs Leticia who got married for the first time in her life in 2014 at the age of 53 and safely put to bed this year at age 56, is inspiring many with her amazing story. Her make-up artist, Kemi King shared the awe-inspiring story on her Instagram page and it has left many...