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NABFEME AFRICA LAUNCHES NETWORKING EMPOWERMENT NON-PROFIT FOR FEMALE EXECUTIVES IN MEDIA

One organization taking female empowerment beyond the usual “talk and no work” fluff is the National Association of Black Female Executives in Music & Entertainment, Inc. (NABFEME).

On the 8th of March, 2017, marking the International Women’s Day 2017, the NABFEME Africa team launched the first chapter of the organization right on the rooftop of Maison Fahrenheit in Victoria Island, Lagos.

The event which had in attendance some of the biggest names in the media, fashion and entertainment industry provided a platform for female executives and other stakeholders in these industries to network and have progressive conversations around the interests of African women.

The opening address was given by the founder of NABFEME Johnnie Walker, former Vice President of Def Jam Records and Head of Black Music at Dreamworks. who recounted how the NABFEME dream was birthed also talked about how NABFEME AFRICA will address the peculiar issues of the Nigerian media and entertainment sector.

Next was Chichi Nwoko, General Manager of Kwese Free Sports TV and Executive Producer at Hey, Whats on. Ms. Nwoko serves as the Network Leader for NABFEME AFRICA and she spoke on the importance of NABFEME to women in the media and entertainment industry in Africa and how the organization will help raise the profile of female executives in the industry.

She also informed the gathering about the different training, networking and career advancement opportunities NABFEME AFRICA has in place for female professionals in the entertainment, media, fashion, health and finance industries including the annual NABFEME International Women Leadership Summit which holds later this year.

NABFEME AFRICA will also launch new chapters in Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa later in 2017.

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PREGNANT WOMAN WHO WROTE JAMB NINE TIMES BECOME BEST GRADUATING STUDENT AT LASU

A 29-year-old woman, Remilekun Orefunwa has shown what it is to be resilient as she was declared the best-graduating student of the 2015/2016 academic session of the Lagos State University.

Remilekun, who is pregnant with her first child graduated with a Cumulative Grade Point Average of 4.74.

Remilekun had sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination seven times before gaining admission to study at LASU.

She wrote UTME seven times and applied to OAU three times without success. She was finally able to gain admission to LASU to study Accounting Education in 2012.

While waiting to get admission to a University, she started ICAN and qualified as an Associate Chartered Accountant in 2010.

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LET BAILEYS SHOW YOU THE SPECIAL WAY TO CELEBRATE MUM THIS MOTHER’S DAY

As part of the efforts to mark this year’s Mothers’ day celebration, Baileys Nigeria has launched an extension of her “Love is”… campaign tagged “Why tell others when you can tell mum?”

The campaign, set to ignite the child-to-mother love and also encourage people to celebrate and express their love to their mothers more often, was carried out via a social experiment carried out in Lagos Nigeria as Baileys invited a cross section of Nigerians to express how they feel about their mothers.

According to the psychotherapist who carried out the survey, people’s inability to tell their loved ones that they love them is one of the common social issues being faced on a regular basis. Against this backdrop, the experiment was carried out with a view to help people connect more with their mothers and mother-figures by showing appreciation and love for them.

This was carried out by having mothers and children in two separate rooms where the children talk about how they feel about their mothers as well as their various unspoken confessions of love for them. This is driven at letting the mothers know that they are seen, loved and appreciated. All through the conversation, the children were ignorant of the fact that they are being transmitted live and their mothers are watching and hearing all that they are saying from another room.

Some of the emotional comments as made by the invited people include: ‘She is a very strong woman’, ‘She is hard working and loving’, ‘She is a sweet mother’, ‘She is the best mom anyone could have’ among many other loving comments being made. This undoubtedly stirred an emotional outburst as mothers shed tears of love while the children also couldn’t hold back their tears during the process of the social experiment.

Baileys is calling out to people to indulge their mothers and celebrate them using the hashtag: #PledgeToIndulgeHer.

Please find below the video link to the social experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6CQ1zRHVdY

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CECE YARA FOUNDATION LAUNCHES ITS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE IN LAGOS

On the March 19, 2017, the Cece Yara Foundation officially opened its new, ultramodern state of the art Child Advocacy Centre at No 2A Akin Ogunmade Street Gbagada phase 2.

The event opened with a short press conference, where its Founder/Director Bola Tinubu, Assistant Director Grace Keteve, and Lola Vivour Adeniyi, Coordinator of the Domestic & Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT) spoke about the foundation and its achievements thus far.

The press conference and brief address to various dignitaries and guests was followed by a ribbon cutting ceremony headed by the Director of Education Lagos State, Kehinde Azume, representing the Deputy Governor of Lagos State, the wife of the Minister of Works and Power Abimbola Fashola, Senator Oluremi Tinubu ably represented by the Commissioner of Police Fatai Owoseni, Acting head of service, Adesoye Folasade, and the Director Office of the Public defence Olubukola Rotimi.

The dignitaries, guests, and media personnel were given a tour of the state of art facility, and introduced to the in house team that handles the incoming cases to the centre. Facilities within the centre include:

  • A private calming room furnished with toys, games, and other age appropriate furniture where the children can play.
  • A forensic interview room is available where the child can make disclosures without the fear of being heard by their parents.
  • An observation room where the children in the forensic interview room can be closely monitored and observed by the parents, trained counsellors, police,  psychologist and medical experts behind the one way mirrors.
  • A medical examination room where preliminary tests can be carried out to verify the claim of abuse.

Built to effectively accommodate children and adolescents, the centre will cater to the physical, mental and psychological, needs of sexually abused children and also helping them and their families through the process of healing and rehabilitation.

The Cece Yara advocacy centre also offers legal advice and support to survivors and their families. Being a first of its kind in Nigeria, the centre provides a warm and child friendly environment where children can speak and express themselves freely in order for them to give as best a description of what transpired to their parents, counsellors and investigators.

The Cece Yara foundation and advocacy centre are a well thought out cause, aimed at especially catering to those in the grass root regions who do not have the ability to seek or get the help they need. The centre caters for the needs of children regardless of the age at which the abuse occurred, and also those who are adults now and were abused as children and are seeking counselling.

“The growing number of child sexual abuse in Nigeria is alarming and that is the reason why the Cece Yara Foundation was established. We assist in the investigative process of cases brought to us and promise complete confidentiality,” Bola Tinubu said.

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Bola Tinubu

Bola Tinubu (M), Lola Vivour Adeniyi (R), and Grace Keteve (L)

Lagos Police Commissioner Fatai Owoseni and Bola Tinubu

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ERELU BISI FAYEMI, TOUN OKEWALE & MORE ATTEND THE UNVIELING OF ADESUWA ONYENOKWE’S DEBUT FILM “CHATROOM”

Wife of the former Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, Associate producer; Adesuwa Onyenokwe, Actress; Damilola Adegbite-Attoh and Producer, Peju Fadirepo

A new film to be produced by Maysquare studios and Adesuwa Onyenokwe – publisher of the popular Today’s Woman magazine and the producer of the show Seriously Speaking is set to cause a bubble in the film industry.

Themed around abuse against women, the producers held a significant unveiling event to kick start the process at the Silverbird Galleria in the presence of partners, film enthusiasts and the media.

The film, inspired by true life events, will have prominent actors such as Damilola Adegbite Attoh, Kanayo O. Kanayo and comedian Akpororo.  Also starring in the movie for the first time after a very long time will be international on-air personality and television host, IK Osakioduwa and popular radio show host, Yolanda George Adams fondly called Aunt Landa amongst others. The film will be shot in May in Lagos, Abuja and the United Kingdom.

Speaking at the launch, the wife of the former governor of Ekiti State, founder of the African Women’s Development Fund and women’s rights activist, Erelu Bisi Fayemi stressed that the message was timely and that there was no better time for the production of the movie giving her commitment to supporting the project.

Also speaking at the event, the founder of WFM, Toun Okewale shared a real life experience and passionately expressed her support for the project while calling on attendees to also support the film and what it stands for.

The producers of the movie, Peju Fadirepo and Adesuwa Onyenokwe noted that the project was not just a movie but a movement adding that the film will be extremely entertaining and hilarious without losing its salient and timely message.

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Group Head, Creative Industry, BoI, Uche Nwuka, Wife of former Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi; Associate producer, CHATROOM, Adesuwa Onyenokwe; ‎Actress, Damilola Adegbite-Attoh; Director, CHATROOM, Chike Ibekwe; Producer, CHATROOM, Peju Fadirepo; ‎ and Chief Executive Officer, WFM 91.7, Toun Okewale Sonaiya,


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STAR ACTRESS & TV PERSONALITY DAMILOLA LAUNCHES “PROJECT ALPHA WOMAN”

Superstar actress and TV personality Damilola Adegbite is reintroducing herself as an “Exercise to Music” instructor as she announces a fitness and wellness initiative for women.

The new initiative is called “Project Alpha Woman” and we love it.

To launch her new project, Damilola has shared some HOT new photos exclusively with BellaNaija showing off her banging body.

Watch Below:

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5 YEARS AFTER ! CYNTHIA OSOKOGU’S KILLERS BAG DEATH SENTENCE

A Lagos State High Court in Igbosere has sentenced to death Okwumo Nwabufo and Olisaeloka Ezike who were charged with the murder of a postgraduate student of Nasarawa State University, Cynthia Osokogu.

The deceased was murdered by the convicts on July 22, 2012 at Cosmilla Hotel, Lake View Estate, Festac Town, Lagos.

In a judgment on Thursday, Justice Olabisi Akinlade found Nwabufo and Ezike guilty as charged by the state.

The judge held that the circumstantial evidence brought by the state in proof of the six counts of conspiracy, murder and stealing against the accused persons were cogent, complete, unequivocal and compelling.

 

A Lagos State High Court in Igbosere has sentenced to death Okwumo Nwabufo and Olisaeloka Ezike who were charged with the murder of a postgraduate student of Nasarawa State University, Cynthia Osokogu.

The deceased was murdered by the convicts on July 22, 2012 at Cosmilla Hotel, Lake View Estate, Festac Town, Lagos.

In a judgment on Thursday, Justice Olabisi Akinlade found Nwabufo and Ezike guilty as charged by the state.

The judge held that the circumstantial evidence brought by the state in proof of the six counts of conspiracy, murder and stealing against the accused persons were cogent, complete, unequivocal and compelling.

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“SHOULD I BE ASHAMED THAT I HAVE TWO CHILDREN FROM DIFFERENT DADS?” – TOYIN LAWANI CALL OUT HER CRITICS

A few days ago Bellanaija of entrepreneur Toyin Lawani’s new reality TV show “Tiannah’s Empire” and in the comment section, a reader made a comment implying she (Toyin) chose to become a baby mama instead of being a wife.

The proud mother of two didn’t find this comment amusing as she took to her Instagram to publicly address it saying:

?? People will never stop to amuse me! So I should be ashamed that I have two children from different dads????? Do you think any woman is happy having kids with different men??? So if one fails, you won’t try again???? Too many hypocrites in this gidi, losers needs to stop, hating me only makes me get better at my game, this shit don’t get to me, my PR will send them I will read and laugh my ass off, y’all should quit this fucking hate,I don’t care,i love my kids to the moon,Don’t expect me to come online & be telling you what went on in my relationships, it’s between two people & that’s where it should stay, not online for all you blood suckers, if you need to find out about my relationships or learn how to run various businesses, catch up on @tiannahsempirerealitytvshow✌ if you want your relationship to last in Nigeria, please don’t show any sign of it online,they will keep looking for a fault, ur matter won’t rest.

They don’t feed u & your kids, they just sit and judge your life allday, overlooking the impact you are making on various lives, and society. No one is perfect & you have flaws too.Do u think it’s easy for a single mom to raise two kids with International standards alone?? Can you feed 60mouths in a day??

You should throw the 1st stone if you don’t sin. Some people just know how to hide theirs better, i’m me, I don’t hide shit, love me or hate me, i’m still gonna wake up and hustle for my kids & if God wants me to have another baby again before my final surgery, I will do so again with no regrets and you lots can help me count the 3rd baby again, wahala igo lonpa ala’icewater,Go and focus on your own life and problems and leave me and my kids alone, this is why loads of stars don’t put their kids out there, but I’m not going to cover up my kids’ various talents, just because society got something to say, love me or hate me, I’m Still here & will keep working hard to reach my goals, it’s all a dream until you make it happen, joblessness makes people hate, if you are looking for a job, i’m hiring, atleast i give employments and better this country, but you sit behind a toy & waste your data on writing shit about people you can’t level with ?s

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STEPHANIE LINUS’ FOUNDATION CARRIES OUT 35 REPAIRS OF VVF PATIENTS IN KEBBI STATE

The Extended Hands Foundation, a non-governmental organization with sponsorship from NNPC/SNEPCo has completed the successful repair of 35 Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF) patients in Kebbi State. The pool effort took place at the Ministry of Women Affairs & Social Development VVF Center in Gesse, Birin-Kebbi and received the co-operation of the Kebbi State Government.

Led by the founder Stephanie Linus, the Extended Hands Foundation team was received by the Governor of the state Dr Abubakar Bagudu and the First Lady Dr Zainab Bagudu. They both paid visits to the women at the VVF Center, showing their support for the cause.

All the repairs have been completed successfully and the women are recovering well.

Stephanie Linus, who spent some time with the women at the VVF Center during the course of the exercise, expressed her appreciation to the sponsors of the pool effort – NNPC/SNEPCo for investing in this cause. She also added that this was the second time the foundation was carrying out such an exercise in Kebbi state.

The team of medical staff was led by Dr Sa’ad Idris, a seasoned VVF Surgeon and former Commissioner for Health in Zamfara State with over 20 years experience in the field. He was assisted by Dr Abubakar Bawa, and other doctors and nurses at the VVF Center.

Against the backdrop of her Child Bride and Fistula advocacy movie, DRY, Stephanie Linus has been taking the message of restoration and hope to real women suffering from VVF. This pool effort goes a long way to show that DRY is more than just a movie, but a tool for touching the lives of women actually living with this condition.

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FIRST CHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE IN NIGERIA LAUNCHED.

The Cece Yara foundation, Nigeria’s flagship advocacy organization in line with its aim and vision to effectively tackle the menace of child sexual abuse is set to open the doors of its ultra-modern relief and support centre in Lagos.

In recent times research has shown that the incidence of child sexual abuse in Nigeria is growing exponentially, statistics precisely state that one in four girls and one in ten boys experienced sexual violence before 18. As a response to these alarming figures, the establishment of the Cece Yara foundation has been a major breakthrough in the fight against child exploitation and sexual abuse. The Cece Yara foundation believes that childhood should be a phase of purity and complete innocence, a period when the character of an individual is formed. The phrase ‘Cece Yara’ means ‘Save the child’ in Hausa language.

The founder, Mrs. Bola Tinubu a lawyer and a staunch advocate for children believes that the future of every child, regardless of gender, race or social background, should be preserved. She is undauntedly ready to take on the fight against sexual abuse amongst children thus her drive and motivation for establishing and running the NGO.

The Cece Yara Child Advocacy Centre provides a warm, safe and friendly shelter where survivors will be comfortable enough to rise above whatever experience they have been through. Having taken into cognizance the major problems which could arise from child sexual abuse, the centre is equipped with state of the art facilities tailored to assist the psychological and physical healing process of the survivor with a fully operational 24 hour hotline ready to cater to those in distress.

The foundation strives to put in place programs and campaigns aimed at preventing child sexual abuse, raising awareness on the issue and also giving the children a voice and a support system. The activities and successes of this organization are laudable and truly encouraging. One of the foundation’s recent accomplishments was getting justice for a 6 year old girl who was sexually violated by an adult male. The accused was detained and charged to court in October 2016. On the 16th of February 2017, the Cece Yara foundation claimed justice for the victim and the accused was sentenced to seven years imprisonment without the option of fine.

The Cece Yara foundation played a pivotal role in bringing the sex offender to book while providing legal support and psychological healing to the ‘survivor’ and her parents, through its Victim Advocacy Program. The victory serves as a deterrent to perpetuators of child sexual abuse in the country and a source of succour to survivors and their families

The centre will be opened officially to the public on the 19th of March 2017.

 

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