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Veteran Singer Dolly Parton Made CoronaVirus Vaccine Possible.

Dolly Parton, the American singer, has notably contributed to the research efforts of scientists working to create the Moderna vaccine. At the onset of the pandemic in early 2020, Parton collaborated with the Vanderbilt University Medical Centre to create awareness about the search for a vaccine, safety measures and the importance of wearing facemasks. The…

ByAngel Nduka-NwosuJanuary 9, 20220Comments

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The Brunel Poetry Prize Renamed After Bernadine Evaristo

The Brunel International Poetry Prize will now be known as The Evaristo African Poetry Prize, in honour of poet, writer and literary critic Bernadine Evaristo. Founded by Bernadine Evaristo in 2013, the formerly called Brunel Poetry Prize had as a primary aim the discovery of new and emerging voices on the continent with the general…

ByAngel Nduka-NwosuJanuary 5, 20220Comments

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Ivory Coast’s Véronique Tadjo Receives one of France’s Highest Honours

Veronique Tadjo is a writer, poet, artist and academic from Côte d’Ivoire whose impactful work earned her the Medal of Commander of Arts and Letters from the government of France, one of the country’s most prestigious national honours conferred on those who had “significantly contributed to the enrichment of the French cultural inheritance.” The medal…

ByDocument WomenDecember 22, 20210Comments

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Equinix’s expansion into Africa and its acquisition of Nigeria’s MainOne

On December 7, Equinix Inc. announced expansion into Africa through its intended acquisition of MainOne, the leading West African broadband infrastructure company, with occupancy in Nigeria, Ghana, and Cote d’Ivoire, at an enterprise value of $320 million. This acquisition by Equinix Inc. acknowledged as the first step towards a long-term strategy to becoming an African…

ByDocument WomenDecember 11, 20210Comments

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Doja Cat announces first codable video in collaboration with GirlsWhoCode

Doja Cat has created the first-ever codable music video for her song, Woman, a hit single off her second and most recent album Planet her. The music star invited users and fans to unlock the content of the video using code. In a tweet posted on Saturday, the singer announced that she had teamed up…

ByDocument WomenDecember 7, 20210Comments

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Feminist Coalition Reveals Girls Education Scholarship Program

On Tuesday, November 23rd 2021, the Feminist Coalition announced the commencement of the Girls Education Scholarship Program. This program offers full annual scholarships and mentorship for brilliant young girls from low-income backgrounds in Nigeria whose largest barrier to quality education is financial. The first recipients of this scholarship are 12 girls from Ogun state,…

ByDocument WomenNovember 29, 20210Comments

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Justice for Keren Akpagher

This is a story of 14-year-old Keren-Happuch Aondodoo Akpagher a Boarding student of Premiere Academy Lugbe, Abuja who died on the 22nd of June, 2021. Timeline: According to accounts from friends, on 16th June 2021, she couldn't walk from the hostel to class and had to be helped by her friends to write her test…

ByDocument WomenJuly 1, 20212Comments

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On Nollywood and its culture of silence.

We often joke that if you’ve seen one Nollywood movie, you’ve seen them all. One plotline that is prevalent in Nollywood movies, specifically the Yoruba ones, is one where a woman is raped, often by a (more) powerful man, is traumatised, but is eventually called into a family meeting where she is asked to ‘forgive’…

ByOluwatobi AfolabiJune 28, 20211Comment

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Ini Umoren Laid To Rest

In case you missed it, a 20-year-old man, Uduak Akpan lures University of Uyo graduate Ini Umoren with a job offer, rapes and kills her before burying her remains in a shallow grave. Uduak later turned himself in to the police and confessed to the rape and murder of Ini Umoren. Following her death, protests…

ByAngel Nduka-NwosuMay 14, 20211Comment

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Why hasn’t the State Of Emergency on GBV in Nigeria been Enforced One Year After?

In June 2020, there were series of women-led protests across Nigeria following the rape and murder of a 22-year-old student of the University of Benin, Uwavera Omozuwa, who went to read in a church during the lockdown. The protests were majorly organized by Women Against Rape Nigeria(WARN). Their protest was also inspired by a week-long…

ByAngel Nduka-NwosuMay 12, 20212Comments

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