A Nigerian woman, Victoria Obaze, was on May 15, 2019, sworn in as the first Black female Civic Mayor of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom. Obaze, an indigene of Imo State who contested three previous councillorship elections in 2010, 2014, and 2016 and failed, eventually succeeded in an election conducted on May 5, 2018, in Whitechapel...