Category: Spotlight
Tope Olagbegi – The Lover, The Strategist, The Teacher
I first met and interviewed Tope Olagbegi about seven years ago. She was my second cover interview for ‘Glitz,’ a style pull out of the now defunct ne [...]
Chess champion, eight-year-old Tanitoluwa gets new apartment
Nigerian born chess champion, eight-year-old Tanitoluwa Adewumi and his family have moved into a new apartment, courtesy of goodwill donations after h [...]
Opinion piece: Portrait of the tiger Ambode rode (4) by Yinka Odumakin
This a strongly worded piece by Yinka Odumakin, the spokesperson for Afenifere, in response to a piece (Odumakin’s anxiety over vanishing feeding-bott [...]
Nigerian chess child-whiz, Tani raises $100,000 in 48 hours
Tani Adewumi, the eight-year-old Nigerian chess whizz who is now an internet sensation for winning his category at the New York State chess championsh [...]
IWD2019: Former BBNaija housemate, Antolecky, pays tribute to outstanding Nigerian women
In celebration of the International Women’s Day with the theme, Balance for Better, a former housemate of the Big Brother Naija reality show, Munirat [...]
Meet Nigeria’s first female pilot to fly with Qatar airways, Adeola Ogunmola Sowemimo
Nigerians, especially the women folks have shown and proven that they are capable of remarkable feats in different spheres of life and constantly brea [...]
Aliko Dangote is now 64th on list of world’s richest men
Aliko Dangote, president of Dangote Group, has emerged the 64th richest person in the world with an estimated $16.6 billion, as against his previous r [...]
Chinonye Chukwu becomes first black woman to win at Sundance film festival
Chinonye Chukwu, a Nigerian-American filmmaker, clinched the Grand Jury Prize at the 2019 Sundance film festival and by so doing, became the first bla [...]
Aisha Waziri Umar: The Social Reformer
Hardly does one come across someone who is so passionate about Nigeria so much so as to take up the role of a reformer, in a bid to bring about the ne [...]
Surgeons perform first brain surgery in Kano State
Kano State witnessed an epoch-making history and a medical breakthrough, when five neurosurgeons within 48 hours performed the first brain surgery in [...]