Asisat Oshoala has helped her club FC Barcelona Women, beat Bayern Munich 1-0 in yesterday’s UEFA Women’s Champions League semi-final game and, in the process, became the first Nigerian to qualify for the competition’s final.
According to Goal, the match led to a lot of firsts for FC Barcelona Women. Not only did the club witness a record number of spectators for a women’s home game, but they also became the first Spanish club to reach the final in the history of the tournament.
For the past three months now, Oshoala has helped the club dominate. The 24-year-old has played six league goals so far this season, and she has sealed them all with seven goals. Oshoala’s magic will certainly come in handy on May 18, when the club faces Lyon in the final.
Sara Hinesley, a 10-year-old girl who was born without hands has just won the 2019 Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest.
She said she found writing in cursive to be easy and practiced it a lot. “She can do just about anything often times better than me or my husband,” said her mom, Cathryn Hinesley.
Besides writing, Sara likes to create art, ride her bike, read and swim.
As public schools prepare to resume for a new term, Edo state government has warned parents that they would be dealt with if their children are found loitering around during school hours.
The state government gave the warning on Saturday, April 27, 2019, while announcing that public and private schools in the state would resume on Monday, April 29, 2019, for the third term of the 2018/2019 academic session.
A statement signed by Dr. Ruth Obahiagbon, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education states that Public and Private schools in Edo State will resume for the third term on April 29.
She added due to the ongoing Edo Basic Education Sector Transformation (Edo-BEST) training for teachers in public primary schools. that public primary schools , public primary schools will resume on May 6.
However, Obahiagbon advised parents and guardians in the state to send their wards to school saying failure to do so would amount to a breach of Child Right Law.
Nigerian model, Daberechi has recently featured in the latest Versace Spring Edit.
Daberechi is an incredibly stunning model, with an amazing ability to fit into several moods, according to the style of the shoot. In the past two years, she has worked with renowned Nigerian labels, Maki Oh, Deola Sagoe and more.
Now, she has taken her skill across the globe, landing a feature in a campaign for one of the most prestigious fashion brands in the world. Donning a red and blue patterned power suit, with her hair in cornrows, Daberechi looks right at home in the Versace shoot.
Daberechi is signed to IMG — one of the most respected modelling agencies around.
International beauty retailer Sephora have been on the hunt for talented influencers to join their exclusive squad. Through this Squad partnership, the ambassadors will receive peer and professional coaching, content and networking opportunities, product collaborations and early access to products at Sephora in exchange for content support on their platforms.
The full #SephoraSquad tasked with creating content for the international beauty retailer [Credit: FastCompany]
Over 15,000 beauty influencers applied to be part of the #SephoraSquad earlier this year with only a special being selected to join the team. From more than 240,000 testimonials the brand chose a diverse group of 24 bad-ass beauty influencers.
The selected beauty influencers will create content on behalf of the international beauty store for the powerhouse beauty retailer using products that they stock and their exclusive in-store lines which includes, Fenty Beauty.
Whitney was selected from a pool of talent thanks to her amazing engagement and coining the term #TheWhitneySmile which is in reference to her megawatt smile which is what has gotten her noticed online.
Speaking about the amazing opportunity. Whitney said:
Truly grateful & blessed to have this journey with you guys! Thank you for years of support and love! Shoutout to God & @Sephora for this moment!
Whitney was in attendance at the #SephoraSquad launch event which held in LA over Easter weekend and got the chance to meet her ‘new family’.
In an interview with Glossy, Sephora’s Chief Marketing Officer Deborah Yeh said:
We see social behaviors constantly evolving and, in order to stay relevant, we felt it was time to take influencer relationships to the next level. We wanted to amplify the beauty community in a larger way and expand the number of voices and perspectives we were using in our work.
Beauty entrepreneur Dabota Lawson is the cover girl for Exquisite Magazine‘s April 2019 issue!
The ex-Beauty Queen looks beautiful in the photos following the cover feature. She rocks different bold lipsticks with smokey eyes and flowers adorning her hair
Here’s what the magazine had to say about the cover:
Our cover diva is a beauty with a purpose. She is on a mission to take on the beauty world, one product at a time and in the process empowering other people. Meet Dabota Lawson, the founder of Dabota cosmetics.
EM is for the unlimited woman, YOU. You are a powerful, unique, special and exquisite woman. We aim to help you restyle your mind to live the life you desire intentionally. Therefore, in this issue, we have included tips on how to work at a job you don’t love and more.
In an interview with CNN‘s Van Jones, Kim Kardashian opened up about why she decided to become a lawyer.
Kim was instrumental in the release of Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old woman who’d been in an Alabama prison on a nonviolent drug charge since 1996. After her meeting with Donald Trump at the Oval Office to discuss prison reform, Alice was granted clemency.
Kim told Jones that she decided to become a lawyer because she discovered, during the process of getting Alice out of prison, that the “system is broken” and she didn’t know much about it. She said she took the step to know more about the system so as to contribute her quota to fixing it.
“I don’t want to be put in a box,” she said.
“I saw a comment where someone said, ‘You need to stay in your lane. You can have ambitions but don’t be too ambitious.’ And to me, that was that kind of like ‘shut up and dribble’ comment to where … I read it to my husband in bed, and I was just like, ‘This will even push me harder’,” she added.
Today, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Ms Omolola Edewor as Executive Director, Corporate Services, Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation(NDIC).
This followed the presentation of a report by senator Rafiu Adebayo, Chairman, Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions at plenary. In his presentation, Adebayo said the nominee, who is currently occupying the same position, was screened and found worthy of confirmation for a second and final term of five years.
He said the Senate at its sitting on April 9, referred the request for her nomination to the committee for screening. The lawmaker noted that “the committee held the screening and we went through her curriculum vitae, security clearance form and code of conduct bureau details.
He said, “She hails from Ogun State and she will be in charge of the administration of the organisation. The committee also found out that the nominee has no petition against her and she is qualified to hold the position for another term. So, we recommend that she be confirmed”.
Seconding the committee’s recommendation, Senator Barau Jibrin(APC-Kano), said, “the nominee has shown to be eminently qualified and by her pedigree, she is qualified to be confirmed”.
In his remarks, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki put the confirmation to a voice vote and it was adopted by the lawmakers. It would be recalled that the committee had on April 18, screened the nominee and promised to refer the report to the Senate in plenary. Meanwhile, President Buhari had written the Senate, seeking Edewor’s confirmation in accordance with provisions of 5(4) of the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation Act.
Ms Abiola Edewor is the first daughter of the acclaimed winner of the June 1993 presidential election, Moshood Abiola. She is also a former member of the House of Representatives. With the confirmation, Edewor will be serving her second term and final term of five years as the executive director.
“On April 21st I smiled in the face of bigotry and walked away feeling the greatest form of accomplishment,” Shaymaa Ismaa’eel wrote in a tweetposted Tuesday, April 23. That tweet included photos of Shaymaa, a 24-year-old who works with children on the autism spectrum in schools, posing and smiling in front of a group of protestors with signs attacking Islam and the prophet Muhammad. For an African-American Muslim woman in a hijab, it was a flex of epic proportions.
The tweet blew up; it now has over 230,000 likes, and 65,000 retweets, and people have said it belongs in a museum or could really sauce up a history textbook. On Instagram, one of the photos Shaymaa posted got over 200,000 likes.
Shaymaa told Teen Vogue the photo is from her trip to Washington, D.C., for a convention run by the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to building Muslim communities. Protesters were there with Islamophobic signs targeting the gathering and the viral photo op that Shaymaa seized came as she was participating in the conference.
“They have a bunch of speakers, workshops, lessons, lectures, spoken words. They have really cool competitions, like a cooking competition. They actually didn’t have it this year, which we were really looking forward to,” Shaymaa said. “When you’re in a space with people of our faith, you kind of just get an uplifting positivity.”
Teen Vogue spoke with Shaymaa about her viral moment, how it’s not the first time she’s done something like this, and what that power of positivity and being unapologetic means to her.
Teen Vogue: What was your initial reaction to the protesters?
Shaymaa Ismaa’eel: I didn’t expect that they would be there. My initial reaction was to videotape them and get some footage, just because.
Then it reminded me of two years ago when I took a picture in front of similar people with similar messages on their posters. This is just my personality. I like to make light of a situation that could be heavy. That was my initial thought: I want to take a picture, but we have a lot to do. Toward the end of the day, when the convention died down, I wanted to go back out there. They weren’t there.
I was thinking about them throughout the convention because all the stuff we’re learning inside the convention was 100% positive — positivity, love, reminding ourselves it might be tough here, but we believe in the hereafter. The second day of the convention, they weren’t there in the morning. I don’t know why I was thinking hopefully I’d get to see them again.
Talking to someone like that is talking to a brick wall. You kind of can’t really do anything to combat it.
TV: You might not be able to talk to a brick wall, but you can use it for a photo backdrop?
S.I.: They were nice props.
We were wrapping up the second day of the convention and the first thing I saw was there they are. I showed my friend and she was like, ‘It’s Sunday. It’s Easter. Don’t they have something better to do?’ I was like, ‘Clearly, they need something from us.’
I took my picture while the security guard was blowing his whistle at me.
TV: Did you get in any trouble?
S.I.: I just walked off as they were making fun of what I was doing. They were like, ‘Oh, yeah, you need to cover your face, too.’ And then someone was like, ‘You know it’s a cult when everyone’s walking around in pajamas.’ I was like, ‘Hmm, is he saying that because I’m wearing loose pants?’ I love sarcasm, so I was like, ‘Thank you for that.’
Notable in the guidelines, is the amount of screen time toddlers should get, which the UN agency said should not be more than one hour for those under 5 and none at all for those under 1.
The guidelines are to address the increasing amount of sedentary behaviour in the general population, WHO said, adding that physical inactivity can cause death, and is a contributor to the rise of obesity.
The primary audiences for these guidelines are policy makers in ministries of health, education and /or social welfare, NGOs, community or family nurses or doctors, paediatricians or occupational therapists, WHO said.
WHO’s guidelines also add that infants less than one year should spend at least half an hour every day on their stomachs and toddlers should get at least three hours of physical activity every day.
Some experts however, have some criticism of the guidelines, according to TIME.
Director of Research at Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, Andrew Przybylski, said the guidelines “overly focuses on quantity of screen time and fails to consider the content and context of use. Not all screen time is created equal.”
Dr. Max Davie, the Officer for Health Improvement at Britain’s Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health said: “Our research has shown that currently there is not strong enough evidence to support the setting of screen time limits. The restricted screen time limits suggested by WHO do not seem proportionate to the potential harm.”
