Dove has been under fire for a while now because of its latest ad campaign which is tagged as ‘racist’ by people. The ad campaign is believed to be a harsh, rude, downgrading of the black race and people have refused to keep quiet this time around as this is not the first time Dove misrepresented the black race.

However, Lola Ogunyemi, the black model at the centre of the campaign who also happens to be a Nigerian, has come out to address the issue.

While speaking with The Guardian, she said:

“There is definitely something to be said here about how advertisers need to look beyond the surface and consider the impact their images may have, specifically when it comes to marginalised groups of women.

It is important to examine whether your content shows that your consumer’s voice is not only heard, but also valued.”

“While I agree with Dove’s response to unequivocally apologise for any offense caused, they could have also defended their creative vision, and their choice to include me, an unequivocally dark-skinned black woman, as a face of their campaign.

I am not just some silent victim of a mistaken beauty campaign. I am strong, I am beautiful, and I will not be erased.”

The original ad campaign has since been deleted off the internet.

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When Matse Uwatse-Nnoli was sick and pregnant, she was fired from her job as a radio presenter. After battling depression, she decided to pick herself up and turn her passion for cooking into a legitimate career path.

Her first step was to launch a food blog, Matse Cooks, which she defines as “a Nigerian and African food blog with some western fusions”.

She created Matse Cooks to educate and start conversations around food and drinks from all around the continent. The positive reception her food blog received led her to launch her own spice range, Matse Cooks Spices.

Speaking with Woman.ng about why she created this spice range, Matse said:

 “I wanted to help families enjoy mealtime by cooking with my passionately made [spices] that can take their cooking to the next level. 

I have gotten great feedback and this gives me happiness and fulfillment that I am making families out there happy in my own little way.”

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Youngest Nobel Prize Laureate and Pakistani activist for female education, Malala Yousafzai, was born in Mingora, Pakistan, to proud parents Ziauddin and Toor Pekai Yousafzai, Malala using the pen name “Gul Makai” to protect her identity, began blogging for the BBC about life under the Taliban rule.

Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize at 17 was accepted at Oxford University in August to study Politics, Philosophy and Economics, attended her first lecture today. Now 22, she has resumed lectures at Oxford university.

Malala was later flown to the United States for treatment and that was where she completed her secondary education after recovering.

Sharing a photo of some of her textbooks, a laptop and a pencil, Malala wrote on Twitter:

“5 years ago, I was shot in an attempt to stop me from speaking out for girls’ education. Today, I attend my first lectures at Oxford.”

Malala’s post now has 213,000 retweets and 687,000 likes, and 5,891 comment 14 hours after posting (as at the time of this report).

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On Thursday 5th of October 2017, an Igbosere High Court in Lagos on Thursday dissolved the marriage of OAP and author, Toke Makinwa and her husband Maje Ayida, citing husband’s adulterous lifestyle, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

She had on March 9, 2016, asked the court to dissolve the marriage on the grounds that the husband committed adultery.

Justice Morenike Obadina, while delivering judgment held that Ayida filed an answer to the petition but did not give oral evidence in support of it.

She said the position of the law was settled as pleadings did not amount to evidence.

“Pleadings on which no evidence was led are deemed abandoned. Therefore, Ayida’s evidence is deemed abandoned.

“The effect being that the petitioner’s evidence is unchallenged and uncontroverted,’’ she ruled.

The judge said the issue of cruelty which the petitioner (Makinwa) relied on, was established because of the “mental and emotional stress” she was subjected to by her husband.

She said Makinwa had sufficiently proven that the husband committed adultery and continued to flaunt his adulterous relationships even to her face.

“I hold that the marriage has broken down on grounds of intolerable behaviour.

“I hereby pronounce a `Decree Nisi’ dissolving the marriage between Makinwa and Ayida which was administered at the Federal Marriage Registry, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Jan. 15, 2014.

“The order Nisi shall become absolute three months from today unless within that period sufficient cause is shown why it should not be made absolute,” Obadina said.

Makinwa had told the court that her husband committed adultery with his mistress, Anita Solomon, adding that the relationship produced a child.

She said since their marriage was contracted, the husband had “behaved in a way she could not reasonably be expected to continue to bear”.

She also said the husband was cruel towards her, adding that their differences became irreconcilable.

NAN also reports that during the trial, the petitioner (Makinwa) testified in court and tendered some documents including their marriage certificate which were admitted in evidence.

In her testimony, she said that after their marriage was contracted in 2014, cohabitation with her husband ceased on Nov. 8, 2015, without any child from the marriage.

She also told the court of an instance where her husband threatened separation and even drafted a separation agreement because she discovered that he bought a ticket for his mistress to travel to London.

The first respondent (Ayida) who replied to the petition when served, however, instructed his counsel, Mr T. O. Lawal, not to continue with the defence.

Ayida through his counsel, therefore, foreclosed all evidence.

The mistress (Solomon), who is the second respondent, refused to join issues with the petitioner.

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IG user Seun Obajolu is celebrating her 16th wedding anniversary with her husband, Tunde, today October 4th and she has taken to her IG page to share their love story. The couple met in 2001 and Tunde proposed to Seun three days after meeting her.

She wrote;

“We are not the typical love story ! You proposed 3 days after we met, convinced I was the one for you while I’m thinking, “who is this crazy guy”? Yet, still going with the flow but with peace within that I was NOT making a mistake . We were married in 10 months and 16 years on, we are still here! You, sure that I’m still the one for you and I, super convinced that you were meant for me. Our marriage has not been perfect but all of the imperfections has taught us to love each other even better and brought us even closer. Here’s toasting to 16 more years and lots more with you my “crazy lover”, my husband, baby daddy, father and friend Tunde Obajolu Thank you for being my back bone, working with my imperfections and supporting my dreams! Happy 16th year Wedding Anniversary to us!!!!!”. ”