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Forks, spoons, knives: Do you copy?
Anyone can get away with holding and using cutlery any way while at home, alone eating in bed; but when out at a nice restaurant, as a guest at a fancy dinner, on a date in a classy restaurant or just anywhere public, you need to know how…
There’s nothing much a Nigerian passport can offer in terms of basic amenities —Temitope Owolabi,…
Temitope Owolabi is a writer, editor and 2015 Farafina Trust writing workshop alumni. Her essay ‘The Smell of Oxford’ was shortlisted for the 2019 Brittle Paper Award and her fiction manuscript ‘Alien, Go Home’ won second place in the…
‘Why we are raising teenage fashion enterprenuers’
Bisola Owokoniran is the creative director at Mastic Beads and Aso Oke. She speaks with ROTIMI IGE, in this interview, about their upcoming teens’ fashion training summit in the United Kingdom, among other topics. Excerpts
We aim to train 100 fashionistas for free by 2020 —Omojola,CEO KAF
Doyin Omojola, in this interview speaks about her new foundation and why she is passionate about the uplift of the less previledged, especially the girl-child.
Alaafin is more than husband to me —Badirat, youngest wife
The youngest wife of the Alaafin of Oyo, Ayaba Badirat Adeyemi, just clocked 30 and recently bagged a Bachelor of Education degree at the University of Ibadan. In this interview by TUNDE BUSARI, the delectable mother of twins goes down…
My father had 28 children; I was born in Lagos but grew up at Beere —Toun Soetan
Evangelist Toun Soetan is a legendary gospel singer. In this interview by OYEYEMI OKUNLADE, she shares what it takes to be a gospel singer, the correlation of music ministry and being an educationist and what has sustained her marriage.…
Every space in Nigeria is patriarchal, including legal profession —Wuraoluwa Ayodele
Wuraoluwa Ayodele is a lawyer, a social entrepreneur and a Mandela Washington Fellow. She is a women’s advocate and founder of Women Safe House. In this interview by Kingsley Alumona, she spoke about why she decided to be a lawyer, gender…
‘Couples must work hard for homes to stand’
Mrs Opeyemi Olawore is the Public Relations Officer, Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Igboora as well as head, Public Alumni Relations of the institution. She is a woman of many parts- an entrepreneur, children Evangelist,…
With mobile technology, it is no longer defensible for people to continue to die from preventable…
Funmi Adewara is a medical doctor, a digital health enthusiast and the founder of Mobihealth International. With over a decade of clinical medicine expertise and bioscience enterprise, she also provides strategic leadership to global…
People need more enlightenment on adoption —Omobola Thompson
Mrs Omobola Thompson is a Public Health practitioner, a preacher and a gender advocate with over 27 years of working in the social sector. The founder of Tabitha-Care Mission also currently works with APIN Public Health Initiative as…