The first season of The Voice Nigeria is over and while we mourn our Sunday nights, all of us at Zikoko decided to pick our favorite live performances. If you don’t agree, no need to vex, just drop a comment on which performance you think we missed.
12. Joe Blue’s energetic performance of Amy WInehouse’s ‘Rehab’:
11. A’rese’s winning performance of Jeff Buckley’s ‘Hallelujah’:
10. Dewe’s impressive version of Bez’s ‘There’s A Fire’:
9. Cornel’s powerful performance of Bryan Adams’ ‘Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman’:
8. Vicky’s soothing rendition of Adele’s ‘To Make You Feel My Love’:
7. David Operah’s beautiful performance of R. Kelly’s ‘I Believe I Can Fly’:
6. Michael’s incredibly smooth performance of Luther Vandross’ ‘Never Too Much’:
5. Vicky’s surprising performance of Sia’s ‘Elastic Heart’:
4. Chike’s wonderful spin on The Proclaimer’s ‘500 MIles’:
3. Nonso Bassey’s incredible version of Shontelle’s ‘Impossible’:
2. Brenda’s showstopping version of Meghan Trainor’s ‘All About The Bass’:
1. Promise’s perfect rendition of Flavour’s ‘Golibe’:
Amina, who was the former SUG VP only assumed office after the former president, Faruk Sai’d, was impeached for taking money from the union’s account without approval.
Speaking to the BBC network, she explained how other women refuse to support her despite her achievement.
Meanwhile on Twitter, some haters couldn’t hide their disappointment.
Eh ya! Unfortunately for him, there will be many more female presidents in his lifetime.
All the haters and misogynist can like to take several seats because this woman is here to rule the SUG! Well, done, ‘Slaymina’!
This article was updated at 5pm on August 1, 2016 to include that the record Amina broke only applies to public universities in Norther Nigeria, there have been other female SUG presidents in non-public universities.
Have you ever imagined being able to tell the time in Yoruba? Well, now you can with the Yoruba Watch Faces created by tech enthusiast and Software Engineer, Moyinoluwa Adeyemi.
This Computer Science graduate who has created a sizeable number of Android Watch Faces became inspired to create a way to tell the time in Yoruba after looking at a clock on a Friday evening after work.
Soon after, she started working on this idea, and began gathering all the knowledge she gained from the Natural Language Processing classes she took while in school.
Moyinoluwa has been doing awesome work even before her Android Watch Faces became popular. In 2013, she was the event developer of TEDxIfe that held in OAU, and was also on the 14-member team that helped improve the ranking of the university from 6th to 1st in Nigeria at the Webometrics ranking of universities.
Moyinoluwa is currently the Software Engineer at Swifta System and Services International.
Two of these Watch Faces are currently available for free download on Google Play Store, with each of them depicting a man and woman in Yoruba attire.
This ban resulted in people carrying their generators to filling stations. Seriously, we’re not joking.
However, a Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo, isn’t taking this ban lightly. He has filed a lawsuit against the Nigerian government, challenging this really stressful ban.
He said the fact that Nigerians don’t even have light at home is enough reason to overturn this ban.
In his opinion, instead of arresting people with Jerrycans, the Nigerian police ought to check the activities of Black Marketers and also people who engage in jungle justice.
Basically, the Nigerian government need to face their work and simply:
We hope something positive comes out of this lawsuit. Four words: Chief Malcom for President!
1. Your mother, when it’s Saturday morning and you’re still sleeping:
See this lazy child.
2. When you hear your mother blasting gospel music and you know endless cleaning is about to go down.
Hay God!
3. When you try to eat breakfast before you’ve done any work.
Eat what?
4. When your mother sees you watching Cadbury’s breakfast television before you’ve finished your work.
Is this child mad?
5. When you are already cleaning the whole house but your mother is still like:
Hian! What is it?
6. When you think you’ve finished and your mother invents new work for you.
Chineke!
7. When you hear “today is environmental” but every Saturday is already environmental sanitation to you.
See these ones.
8. You, finally eating breakfast when it’s almost evening:
This one has passed brunch.
9. When you want to go out that Saturday so you wake up by 3am to do all your chores:
Can’t risk it oh!
10. When your mother leaves the whole kitchen for you to clean after her Saturday cooking.
Is it fair?
11. The worst Saturday morning chore:
THE ABSOLUTE WORST.
12. When NEPA waits for you to complete all your chores before they take light.
Who is doing me from my village?
13. When you are finally about to rest and you hear “let’s go to the market.”
WHAT IS IT OH?
Sometime in July 2016, this video of a young Nigeria woman, Mayowa Ahmed, a sickle cell carrier, who is currently battling stage 4 ovarian cancer went viral. She was appealing to Nigerians to help save her life by donating towards the $100,000 needed for her treatment in Emory hospital, Atlanta.
Anyone who have the capacity to help, such is your friend. Let's #SaveMayowa Access Bank – 0038091966 Ahmed Mayowa https://t.co/HwbyHlnMZt
Amazingly, less than a week after the video came up, Nigerians donated generously to the GoFundMe account opened in her name and the $100,000 goal was completed.
Mayowa’s campaign was so touching, controversial Nollywood actress, Toyin Aimakhu paid her a visit and even tried to cheer her up.
This outrageous report made several Nigerians reach out to the family for explanation. And emails the family shared with representatives of some hospitals overseas were released.
They also shared Mayowa’s current medical status with Nigerians in a bid to clear their family’s name.
Her medical story shows how she became ill in 2015 and was misdiagnosed in LASUTH for almost one year. When her condition worsened, they contacted Emory Hospital in April 2016 and were asked to deposit the sum of $100,000.
According to the medical report, “Ahmed, Mayowa Shukura has been a known healthy HBSS patient from her early years and because we detected it early…. but after graduation she seemed to have more frequent cases of hospital visits with Ulcer being the diagnosis most times, we began to manage Ulcer in LASUTH. By July 2015, the ulcer as it was diagnosed, became worse as it had progressed from pangs to vomiting and stooling blood so frequently. At this point, our confident in LASUTH was not firm anymore because it just wasnt working and we were not getting enough care so we tried another place- Isolo General Hospital as we knew a Management Doctor there. It was fine for a few days but then we went back to status quo.”
As if the rumours weren’t enough trauma, Aramide Kasumu and Toyin Aimakhu contacted the police and Mayowa’s brothers were arrested.
They both claimed Mayowa’s brothers refused to let them see Mayowa on July 27 and the family received more than the $100,000 funds they asked for. But they forgot to add how Nigerians continued to donate even after they announced they had reached their goal.
Following these claims, Mayowa’s family announced how plans to take Mayowa to the U.S changed.
Speaking via Bellanaija’s comment section, they explained how Mayowa needs to be stabilized in Dubai because of her critical health condition before further travel plans can be made.
In this video, Mayowa’s cousin, Habeeb, released this statement maintaining all their family did was just to keep Mayowa alive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYTilm_XIqg
Although the account dedicated to raising funds for Mayowa has been blocked, Habeeb called out to competent legal trustees to help them handle the funds just to convince Nigerians of the sincerity of their actions.
Mayowa’s sister also denied all the allegations and shared how Mayowa is deeply saddened by the bad news circulating all over social media.
Speaking to journalists from NTA, a doctor in LUTH denied saying Mayowa’s life was beyond saving.
But unfortunately, this drama has put Mayowa in more emotional stress in addition to her fragile health.
This story also shows how important it is to properly fact-check before spreading information.
It’s also important to remember that Mayowa’s condition is still delicate at this point. We hope she gets better soon.
Take note, Linda!
We were just minding our business on Twitter when melanin-popping Nigerian actress, Beverly Naya, came to share her experience at a restaurant in Lagos.
One day, as a pinging baby girl, she went to eat at one Lebanese-owned restaurant. Who no like better thing abeg?
To her surprise, the black waiters in the restaurant only served black customers while the Lebanese man attended to the the white woman.
Instead of shouting, she jejely asked the Lebanese man to come and serve her, as per she’s not eating their food for free.
Na wa o!
There shouldn’t be any form of segregation especially on our own soil.
But this feat didn’t come easy for Chierika Ukogu, who had to put off medical school for 2 years just to make her dream of representing Nigeria at the Olympics possible.
Despite not receiving any financial help from the Nigerian government, this Stanford University graduate funded her training and travel expenses through her full-time job and T-shirt sales.
However, with the Olympics drawing nearer, the need to train harder drove Chiereka to raise more funds via her GoFundMe page.
Although she was born and raised by Nigeria parents in the U.S, Chiereka is thrilled to be the first Nigerian athlete to row at the Olympics
What motivates her isn’t just her personal goal to be a great athlete, but also the need to promote sports in Africa and also inspire young people in Nigeria and the U.S.
We’re so proud of Chiereka! We wish her all the best and hope she brings all the gold home.
