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Pastor Ituah and Ibidun Ighodalo, Keke, turned a year older yesterday, July 19th and Ibidun took to her Instagram page to celebrate their daughter and praise her husband.

See post and photos below:

”#July19 – the best day God created ….#myown #oniseiyanu????
Where do I start from ?

Happy birthday to my senior husband with a heart of gold…. touching everyone you come across positively…. it is truly a privilege to share the same birthday with you hubstar, my twin, my rock, my support system, my everything????????????❤❤❤ I pray that my Good God will show up for you when you need him now and ever more .love you my twin, my protector, my own ???????????? best dad to @omoehii and awesome husband to @ifeyinwaighodalo 
Happy birthday to my own, my baby, my princess, the one who lights up my world, the one whose smiles and makes me know everything is just alright, the one who God has blessed me with, my star, my everything….. where do I start thanking God from??? My miracle worker , my promise keeper …From before time began He destined you and I to be born on the same day , name sake and He did it in such a breathtaking way.

My God is THE master planner….. You came and silenced all the naysayers #MySilencer … #OurBlood the one God miraculously brought forth for us….keke you have brought nothing but joy to my life and I couldn’t have asked God for a better daughter! You energy so out of this world. No one can keep up with you ????????????Brilliant, beautiful, witty, charming, delightful, you are everything and more that I could ever wish for my darling and I pray that God Himself will raise you to be a woman of excellence and virtue. You are my sign and my wonder and I bless God for you every waking moment. Have a day as fabulous as you my darling. Mummy loves you fiercely. ❤️???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? #Triplets#BirthdayMates #Hubby #Daughter#MyPrideAndJoy #BirthdayBehaviour#TheIghodalos
@tybello you are simply the best ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? thank you for these lovely pictures ????????????

Beauty queen and successful event entrepreneur Elizabeth R/The Dorchester/Avant Garde Ibidunni Ighodalo and her beautiful daughter Keke are celebrating their birthday today.

Renowned photographer Ty Bello in her usual style took to her Instagram page to share photos from their shoot accompanied with a beautiful message.

‘..A good woman is hard to find, and worth far more than diamonds. She’s like a trading ship that sails to faraway places and brings back EXOTIC SURPRISES …. (from proverbs 31 . The message translation)

I was thinking about @ibidunni_ighodalo today and my heart went to proverbs 31. .. I read through.. and I was like yeah I know her .. the babe’s name is Elizabeth R.
Ibidun is really a proverb .. a beautiful mystery .. the baby-faced – delicate- always blushing flower .. but stronger than most people I know. Soft spoken and introverted yet open and spontaneous in her kindness. I’ve been through many season with’ Dun-dun ‘ .. I’ve never seen any one dare to dream so openly …and spread hope like she has even when going a tough season …But look at you ..Ibidunni…it’s clear .. God knows how to take care of his flowers .. I’ve seen him carry you wind-blown by faith to this most beautiful place .. making all things new .

Ibidun like in proverbs 31 .. God really is always using you to bring exotic surprises .Your life is such a testimony and I’m so proud of you . Happy birthday to you and your beautiful bundle of endless energy Keke. For every time your heart whispered the word ‘twins’ .. now you know what He meant.. ????????????????????????same birthday .. same smile .. same everything !!!this God amazes me..You’re both so beautiful.. so so so beautiful!! Thank God for the 19th of July !!#tybellophotography #mother-daughter #birthdaysession

Ailing actress, Halima Abubakar, has come out to defend Tonto Dikeh after fans came for her for posting a photo of sick Halima. In an Instagram post, Halima narrated how Tonto came to pick her from the hospital and took care of her.

See her IG post below;

“I want to use this Lil strength in me now to thank my wonderful friend @tontolet who came into town to shoot a movie, but left her work to come pick me up when I told her I was in the hospital. she said don’t move an inch give me the address (bless her) out of love she made sure I was safe and I already shared my journey with you all.

“How many friends will make sure you take your medication, force you to eat and monitor your temperature? All she did was out of love and so you all can pray for me         you all have seen me at my best and you should see me at my lowest (no shame)I basically showed you all my womb,a picture is nothing to me(I rocked the baldness) help me thank her for dropping all she had to do for me..Notting but pure love.

“Only good friends will do that.Money was never involved in her gestures.She is naturally a kind soul and I will forever be grateful @tontolet for that single post, you all have been praying for me❤️❤️❤️ that’s noble act. I love you for ever. you are a great friend #but those drugs bitter sha thank you mama king. pls thank her for doing that for me.

“I have nothing but respect for you. #womensupportingwomen#friendshipforever”

Former Arsenal Ladies’ striker Asisat Oshoala, who currently plays for Dalian Quanjian F.C., has donated a new branded 18 seater bus to her women’s youth club in Nigeria FC Robo. She donated the bus as a birthday gift to the club’s chairman, Emmanuel Osahon.

Osahon took delivery of the cars on Sunday, July 16, 2017 much to the delight of the club’s female players and technical crew.

 

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Emma Nyra, American-born Nigerian singer, formerly signed to MMMG label, has released stunning photos from her birthday photoshoot session as she celebrates her birthday today 18th july.

Here’s what she wrote;

“Happy Birthday to me!!! I want to say thank you to baba God for every single experience and exposure that He has allowed me to grow from. Thank you to every single person I have ever met along this journey that has supported me and shown me love!!! I will forever be grateful to my family for loving me and accepting me as I am! @nyranation we rise!!!! *NEW MUSIC IN MY BIO* #JAMINA #emmanyra#nyranation”

Omolabake Adenle is a 35-year-old Nigerian who founded Aja.la Studios, a company that builds natural language & speech processing applications for African languages.

She holds a PhD in Bayesian Signal Processing from Cambridge University where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and Tau Beta Pi Honors Fellow.

She had been shortlisted for the Innovation Prize for Africa for her voice recognition and speech synthesis software for African languages, a software that can understand and digitize spoken African languages.

Her software will not only help newer generations learn languages that are slowly dying, but will also afford those who speak only their local languages enjoy the benefits of the digital revolution – just imagine a voice assistant (Siri, Google Now) that can take instructions in and speak Yoruba.

Omolabake Adenle’s Aja.la Studios has already built SpeakYoruba, a Yoruba Language learning app (think Duolingo), and is looking to build more learning apps for African Languages under its SpeakAfricaApps project

 Digitizing African languages like this will allow Africans to interact with a wide range of devices and third-party software applications in their local languages.

While voice recognition and speech synthesis software have been developed for various Western and Asian languages, there has been very limited commercial application or academic research for African languages.

This innovation will open up opportunities for Africans with low literacy levels – or those that simply don’t speak English – to also enjoy the benefits of the digital revolution.

CAROLYN SEAMAN

A female techy who is using technology to empower girls through her Girls VoicesInitiative. The organization empowers girls to use digital literacy skills, journalistic and advocacy skills to make positive impacts in their communities in Nigeria.

 

DAMILOLA ANWO-ADE

Founded CodeIT, a platform that mentors the next generation of coders, including young women.

 

OLAMIDE AYENI-BABJIDE

A computer engineer who founded Pearl recycling – an initiative that aims to redefine local production from upcycled waste and increase internally generated income through waste upcycling.”

IJEOMA VINCENT-AKPU

 

PETRA NNAMANI

A lecturer in the Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

 

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Hello WORrior! Today is #WomanCrushWednesday and our Woman Crush is Arese Ugwu, the Smart Money Woman!

Arese Ugwu is the author of the bestselling and ground-breaking The Smart Money Woman, the financial-chick-lit novel that has taken Africa by storm. She is helping young Africans discover their power to build their future and make smarter money decisions through Smart Money Africa, a personal finance platform for the African millennial, engaging young Africans on the importance of financial literacy and the impact it has on helping them get money, keep money, and grow money.

Using the best of traditional and new media, Arese’s work appears in newspapers, on television, websites, social media, online videos, and through her book—all to reach her audience with accessible content that explains and navigates Africa’s unique financial landscape, delivering practical knowledge.

Her work in ensuring financial literacy for Africa’s youth has not gone unnoticed. In 2015 she was a finalist for Access Bank’s W Awards for Young Professional of the Year; in 2016, she won Rémy Martin’s Pacesetter award and was nominated for The Future Awards Africa Prize for Education.

She serves on several boards including House of Tara, and the Nigeria Higher Education Foundation as a non-executive director, and is also an associate member of WIMBIZ, serving on its planning committee since 2015.Arese also holds an MSc in Economic Development from University College London (UCL) and a BSc in Business and Management from Aston Business School, Birmingham. She is also an alumna of the of the Lagos Business School, INSEAD Abu Dhabi, and The London School of Business executive education programs.

Her other interests include, world travel, reading, playing tennis and squash.

Here are other interesting facts you might like about (In her words);

”I’m awesome!

Lol! just kidding

……….but I really am

I am passionate about my amazing daughter Zikora! Anyone who knows me (or follows me on instagram lol!) knows that my beautiful daughter is the centre of my universe.. My fear of being broke and hungry in adulthood multiplied after I had Her.She became my no 1 motivation to work harder and BE better because it is extremely important to me to provide a better life for her than my parents did for me. (and they provided a pretty great one)”

”I’m a bit obsessed with series! I will admit to pretending I’m Olivia pope from ‘Scandal‘  or  Jessica Pierson from ‘Suits’ when I know I have a tough day ahead to help me get through it! Don’t judge me! You probably channel them too on occasion ????”

”I’m a foodie! My love for food and my constant struggle to lose weight in the torture that is Jide’s ICU class is ermmm complex!”

”I LOVE my job!  Needless to say … I am a glorified slave to rich folk ( with a fancy title) lol! But I’m not complaining the experience I have gained in the course of serving my clients and their businesses is invaluable. I love working with an amazing team of analysts and stockbrokers to come up with financial solutions that meet their needs.”

Women Of Rubies celebrates you, smart Arese Ugwu!