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Patience Ozokwor Says No One Can Replace Olu Jacob

12Jul

By Osaretin BalogbanNo Comments

Celebration, Inspirational, Life, Movies and Films, Nigeria

Patience Ozokwor Says No One Can Replace Olu Jacob

Renowned actress Patience Ozokwor shower praises on Nollywood legend Olu Jacob deeming the popular actor irreplaceable. She praised him at his 80th birthday celebration where other popular Nollywood movie stars also gathered to celebrate their icon. See Also: Nollywood Actress Laments Nigeria’s Insecurity After Attack By Bandits On Lagos-Ibadan Expressway Actress Patience Ozokwor praised her colleague for his proficient acting and how versatile he is on set, saying he can play any role given to him. “I’m missing him on set, he can play an Igbo king, he can play a Yoruba king, in fact, I don’t think anybody can replace him,” she said. Jacob’s wife, Joke Silva revealed back in November 2021 that her husband was battling Lewy body dementia and he had been living with the a...

Gahaya Links and Mastercard Foundation Partner to Protect and Empower Women-Led Artisan Communities in Rwanda

28Jul

By adminNo Comments

Covid-19, Economy, Fashion, Inspirational, News, Press Statement, Rwanda, Women Empowerment

Gahaya Links and Mastercard Foundation Partner to Protect and Empower Women-Led Artisan Communities in Rwanda

Kigali, Rwanda, July 27, 2020 – Gahaya Links, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation’s COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Program, has provided 40,000 vulnerable families in their artisan network with face masks, which will help them prevent the spread of COVID-19 while enabling them to safely engage in income generating activity. The face masks were produced by 1,406 tailors, mostly women, providing economic opportunity to the artisan community which has been severely affected by the lockdown measures initiated mid-March in Rwanda countrywide. Through this partnership, Gahaya Links has worked with its vast network of women cooperatives to protect its members against the health risks of the pandemic. These women, who come from homes with an average of six family members, ...

African American Icon, John Lewis Dies at 80

18Jul

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Africa, Inspirational, United States of America

African American Icon, John Lewis Dies at 80

John Lewis, African American icon and civil rights activist in the United States (US) have passed on at the age of 80, Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker announced on Friday. Lewis, an Atlanta Congressman, had disclosed in December 2019 that he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Pelosi while announcing the death of Lewis, described him as, “a titan of the civil rights movement whose goodness, faith and bravery transformed our nation.” “Today, America mourns the loss of one of the greatest heroes of American history,” Pelosi said of Lewis, whom she once labelled “the conscience of the Congress.” Lewis was one of the leaders of the March on Washington in 1963 in which Martin Luther King Jr delivered his famous “I have a dream” speech. He was a pioneer member of one of America’s mo...

Funke Akindele Rescues Pa James by Gifting Him a House after Flood Wrecked His Home

9Jul

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Environment, Inspirational, Lifestyle, News, Nigeria

Funke Akindele Rescues Pa James by Gifting Him a House after Flood Wrecked His Home

Nigerian actress Funke Akindele has rescued iconic actor Kayode Olasehinde Ajirebi, alias Pa james, whose home in Oke Isagun community of Oke Odo, Lagos was recently flooded by gifting him a house. Pa James had sought for help on social media after his home was flooded on July 7, 2020, destroying his properties. His son Samuel Ajirebi last year shared pictures and videos on Instagram of their home overtaken by flood. Jennifer Diary actress Funke magnanimously gifted the family an apartment to alleviate them of their suffering. It was disclosed on Instagram by actress, Oluwakemi Adetoro Ojo. She wrote, “On behalf of PA JAMES, I Want to say Big thank you to @funkejenifaakindele for the the new apartment given to him by you. God bless you so much for your good heart Anikeademi your t...

Nigerian Youth Need An Alternative Culture

18May

By Ndidi Uwechue1 Comment

Africa, Inspirational, Lifestyle, Youths

Nigerian Youth Need An Alternative Culture

18th May 2020 Starting by stating the obvious: that a good culture creates a good country; and a bad culture creates a bad country. So, by the culture lived out, citizens establish the kind of country they prefer, not only for themselves but also for their children. Before going any further, culture here is the social behaviour and ideas of society, while tradition would be the ancient way of doing things say, dancing, dressing, cooking, music making etc. Thus, “Nigerian Culture” has created the Nigeria we see. Structurally, it is a culture of INDIVIDUAL-MINDEDNESS which is basically self-preservation and self-profit, plus added to that is a SADISTIC tendency. The cultural focus on self and selfishness hardly any Nigerian or observer of Nigerians would disagree wi...

14Jan

By Ndidi UwechueNo Comments

Inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, Nigeria

You – A Platform For Social Change

14th January 2020 Most people want to be commended, or valued, or “blessed” after they have done a good deed. Most of us want to be recognised after we have done something helpful. This is perfectly normal, and it is us being human. Other people though, live at a higher level. One of them was Kaspar Nützel. Very few have heard of him, but millions know about his champion the monk Professor Martin Luther who officially started off the Protestant Reformation in Europe when in 1517 he reportedly nailed his Ninety-five Theses, a theological argument to the door of Wittenburg Church. Kaspar Nützel was a nobleman from Nuremberg in Germany. Luther's Ninety-five Theses had been written in Latin, a language that only scholars and not the ordinary citizen could understand. Without be...

Ghana: Autistic Models Turn Heads and Win Awards

5Feb

By adminNo Comments

Africa, Ghana, Inspirational

Ghana: Autistic Models Turn Heads and Win Awards

These autistic teenage girls have become successful models in Ghana, where they have won awards and been made brand ambassadors for a water company in Ghana. The BBC went to see Yacoba Tete-Marmon, Nana Ohenewaa Kuffour and Maame Bema Baffour Awuah strut their stuff. As published by As published by BBC NEWS

Health: Breast cancer survivors bare it all

17Oct

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Inspirational, Uncategorized

Health: Breast cancer survivors bare it all

For women facing breast cancer, there is nothing like talking with those who have walked the path before them. On Wednesday, that sharing will be taken to a new level. After medical experts speak at a Toronto symposium marking Breast Reconstruction Awareness (BRA) Day, in a room off to the side, Willow’s Show and Tell Lounge will offer something unique. Under soft lighting and clustered around coffee tables, about 20 women will unzip their tops and bare the results of mastectomies and breast-reconstruction surgery to those considering the procedure. They will show their incisions, talk about how their new breasts feel, and share their emotional journeys through the surgical ward. Informal show and tells frequently happen in bathrooms at breast cancer events, says Natalie Witki...