Winning awards has not always been the sole purpose for many international acclaimed chefs if you ask, but the excellence in culinary skills as well as being chef to winning the highly coveted Michelin Star award in 2024, Nigeria’s Adejoke Bakare is putting the national colours on world map of cooking pedigree. Moving to the United Kingdom [UK] after […]
Rivers State born Stanley Bobo Nwabali wanted to play football like many children of his age grade, one who makes penetrating runs, dribbles and makes intelligent passes at the most difficult moments while also scoring world-class goals many years back but posterity would rather have him stopping and catching goals from entering his own net as he has become […]
Cancer is one of the world’s leading mortality phenomenon since the 1950s as the world experts and researchers have continued to develop innovative measures to stem down the rise alongside constant info-educative efforts all around the globe, and here in comes Nigeria’s cancer-control advocate, Runcie Chikeruba Wilson Chidebe. Born 26, December 1985 in Talata Mafara , Zamfara, the Oba-Idemili-Anambra […]
On July 10, 1943 Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. was born to parents Arthur Sr. and Mattie C. Ashe in Richmond, Virginia. His interest in and learning of tennis from an early age happened partly because his father got a job at Brook Field in 1947. They lived in a house located on blacks-only 18-acre park with multiple lawn tennis […]
Foremost film actor, dramatist, folk singer, poet and playwright, Pa. Jimi Solanke passes on at the age of 81 in Ogun State. The late entertainment guru was said to be on his way to the Babcock Hospital, Ilishan-Remo, for medical treatment when he give up the ghost. The late songwriter, popularly known as ‘Uncle Jimi’ has graced the entertainment […]
In the early 2000s, a geeky Harvard student named Mark Zuckerberg changed the world as we know it from the comfort of his dorm room. Armed with his brilliant mind and a knack for coding, Zuckerberg created a social networking platform that would soon become a global sensation. The Birth of “The Facebook” Originally named “The Facebook,” Zuckerberg’s creation […]
Nigeria’s Chief Taiwo Ajayi-Lycett is a happy 83 year old actor as the world celebrates her with glowing accolades. The Nollywood veteran enjoys her octogenarian years and has advised for conscious intention to make the world a better place. The thespian and former television presenter-journalist-cum-comestologist shared her desire to see the younger generation have more respect for the older […]
ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO (Benin/France)Best Contemporary World Music Album – 2008Originally from Benin and now living in France, Angélique Kidjo holds the title has Africa’s most decorated GRAMMY winner in history. 2008 saw the first of her five trophies with a Best Contemporary World Music Album for Djin Djin and increased to three more Best World Music Album wins, adding the […]
MARIAN MAKEBA (South Africa)Best Folk Record (Collaboration with Harry Belafonte) – 1966The first Grammy Awards ceremony took place on May 4, 1959 simultaneously at two venues, the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, and the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City, New York. It took seven years after the inaugural edition for Africa to record her first […]
Oprah Winfrey is an american media mogul born January 29 1954, with giant strides in the media world celebrates her 70 years in a unique style filled with deep resonation and empowering intonations on the global stage. She has many feathers on her cap which includes talkshow host, movie actor, producer and director. Starting her career as a host […]
