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Category: Celebrating Women

  • International Day of the Girl Child

    This day aims to highlight and address the needs and challenges girls face, while promoting girls’ empowerment and the fulfilment of their human rights. “On this International Day of the Girl, let us recommit to supporting every girl to develop her skills, enter the workforce on equal terms and reach her full potential.” UN Secretary…

  • Nike Davis Okundaye

    I’m celebrating Chief Nike Davis Okundaye today. I’m just so excited celebrating this great woman not because she is also my namesake 😁 but because she is an outstanding woman who is such a huge inspiration to me. Nike Davis Okundaye is a batik & textile designer and also a philanthropist. Nike Davis Okundaye was…

  • Funke Akindele Bello

    So I’m celebrating Funke Akindele Bello today. An extraordinary woman who is such a huge inspiration to me. An actress, producer and philanthropist. Funke Akindele was born on August 24, 1977 in Lagos State, Nigeria. She obtained an Ordinary National Diploma in Mass Communication from the former Ogun State Polytechnic and got a Law degree…

  • Olajumoke Adenowo

    So I’m celebrating Olajumoke Adenowo today. An outstanding woman who is a huge inspiration to me. An award-winning Nigerian architect, entrepreneur, a speaker, author and philanthropist. Olajumoke was born on the 16th of October 1968 in Ibadan, Nigeria. Olajumoke studied Architecture from the age of 14 at the Obafemi Awolowo University, graduating with a Bsc…

  • Omotola Jalade Ekeinde

    So I’m celebrating Omotola Jalade Ekeinde today. An amazing woman who is such a huge inspiration to me. An actress, singer and philanthropist. Omotola Jolade Ekehinde was born on the 7th of February 1978 in Lagos, Nigeria. Omotola got her first big role in the critically acclaimed film Mortal Inheritance (1995). After a career defining…