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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.
He is the reason you have a thousand aunties and uncles (and counting), and a million cousins (and counting).
2. Your long-suffering grandmother
It’s just because of God she is just managing herself for her children and grandchildren oh! But she is always happy to see you, your siblings and cousins.
3. Your sharp-mouthed step-grandmother
She can abuseeeeeeee everybody in the compound including her husband, children and grandchildren.
4. Your over-educated uncle
His day is not complete if he does not blow unnecessary grammar.
5. Your troublesome aunty
Before anybody can talk she has already scattered the whole place. Trouble follows her wherever she goes.
6. Your rich and dodgy uncle
Nobody is sure the source of his wealth but he’s always bringing different cars to visit the family.
7. Your classy aunty
Always so crisp and clean! You’re not even sure how she is related to you people sef.
8. Your stingy uncle
So so stingy! His wife and children are always complaining sef!
9. Your emotional aunty
She can CRY for Africa! If she’s happy oh, sad oh, pregnant oh, just won the lottery oh, all join. She must sha cry.
10. Your dissatisfied uncle
Always eyeing his siblings’ (including your parents) property and belongings. The reason you parents update their wills regularly.
11. Your recently “born again” aunty
She claims to no longer be “in the world” and now is always preaching up and down. One day, one message!
12. Your “get rich quick” uncle
He is always planning one scam or the other that will make him an overnight millionaire. He is yet to succeed sha.
13. Your suave uncle
Smooth, cool and fine. Can bamboozle his way in and out of any situation with a smile and a wink.
14. Your “hustling” cousin
She claims she owns a shop and that’s why she has so many bags and shoes but nobody in the family believes her.
15. Your “abroad” cousin
Comes home once every 4 years and spends his whole trip talking about “back in the Unided States”.
16. Your hot cousin
The baddest babe in the family! Everyone’s “go-to” for fashion and style tips.
17. Your “fine boy” cousin
Always has a new girlfriend and plenty girls are always chasing him sha. Thinks being a fine boy is a full time job.
18. Your dramatic cousin
Her emotions are always raised to power 100. So so extra!
19. The cantankerous twin cousins
There has been family meeting because of them a few times. Always causing trouble from one place to another.
20. Your “exposed” cousin
Because she travelled abroad once 3 years ago, she will not allow anybody hear word. Everyday “fiun fiun fiun”
When wardrobes start overflowing with clothes that are hardly worn, it only means one thing, TIME TO DECLUTTER!
This was exactly how Ginikachi Eloka, the brain behind NFB yard sale, felt as a UNILAG undergraduate in 2014, when she stared in to her wardrobe and realised she had a lot of valuable clothes she wasn’t wearing.
Reaching out to her friend, they both organised a yard sale in December 2014 and the buyers couldn’t be more pleased at the good deals they got.
Now a graduate of Systems Engineering and a force to be reckoned with in the creative industry, Kachi believes more people should engage in letting go of things they don’t need because it helps them focus on acquiring more important things in life.
However, Kachi’s NFB Yard Sale now comes with a bigger objective of charity and providing value for the buyers and sellers.
People who want to declutter their wardrobe for a reasonable amount of money can be a part of the forth-coming yard sale.
It’s also an opportunity for fashion lovers to shop stylish pieces at affordable prices.
And because it’s important to reach out to those in need, there will an auction segment where the money generated will be donated towards empowering the less privileged women of Iroto, a rural community in Ogun state.
Although the aim is to generate over N250 million towards the Iroto project, the auction is set to begin at N3,500.
The yard sale is set to happen on July 24 at Ethnic Heritage Center, 35A Raymond Njoku street, off Awolowo road Ikoyi.
There’ll be so many awesome pieces from designers like Gucci, Lisa Folawiyo, CLAN, Hermes and Swarovski and also what we all love the most, PLENTY FOOD!
To be a part of this yard sale, check out more details via the Instagram and Facebook pages.
In Nigeria, one of the major problems we have is that people don’t like facing their work, and so to help make the country a much better place we have compiled a list of people that need to face their work and do it now!
1. The Nigerian Executive who needs to stop travelling and face their govermenting work
My friend sit down in one place!
2. Senators and House of Reps members need to stop fighting and face their legislature work
Is that what we sent you to do?
3. Telecommunications companies need to stop doing bonanza and promo and face their phone calls and data work
Must we beg you for data that we paid for?
4. Pharmacists need to stop judging people buying condoms and face their medicine dispensing work
Last last, you people will be alright.
5. Nigerian policemen need to leave their egunje paroles and face their work
Thief has not finished in Nigeria for you people to catch oh. In case you people are not aware.
6. LASTMA need to stop jumping inside people’s cars and face their traffic management work
Is this traffic safety? Ehn?
7. Nigerian civil servants need to stop striking every other month and face their work
Will you go back to the office? Unserious bunch!
8. CBN needs to stop banning items eligible for forex and face their work
Do those ones even know their work because the inflation rate begs to differ.
9. Nigerian banks need to stop painting buildings and sponsoring events and face their money management work
Every day na so so media partnership but to send alert is wahala.
10. NYSC needs to stop stressing young Nigerians and face their “increasing harmony across the nation” work
I mean just look at!
11. NEPA needs to stop cutting people’s light and face their light-giving work
Mschewwww.
12. Nigerian pastors need to stop preaching jagbajantis and face their “Jesus is coming” work
Plus the faulty economics, plus the entrepreneurship for dummies sermons, plus the yanma yanma relationship coaches. All join.
13. EFCC needs to stop making announcements and face their “nabbing financial criminals” work
Not everyday make announcement, sometimes allow criminals enter jail.
14. OAP’s need to stop chooking their mouth in every and any body’s business and face their radio work
If you don’t join your mouth will you die?
15. Nigerian extended family members need to face their own family and leave other people’s children alone
Better stop talking before we expose your own children here!
16. Nigerians on social media need to face their front and stop tweeting nonsense relationship advice
Not everyday “soul ties” and “nudes”. Sometimes keep shut!
17. Nigerian teachers and principals need to stop beating students like goats and face their education work
18. In fact, everybody
Please and thank you
This message is brought to you by Zikoko! Where we face our work.
And while many of us aren’t even over this teaching idea, a civil society organisation, Buhari Youth Organisation, believes the NYSC service year should be devoted to farming.
According to their spokesman, Abdul-Waheed Odunuga, the NYSC scheme needs to restructured so that graduates can help boost Nigeria’s agricultural sector during their service year.
He suggested the state and federal governments create farms where graduates can learn agriculture and farm while serving the country.
Instead of them to suggest realistic solutions to the unemployment problem in Nigeria, they’re talking about farming.
Anyway, the corpers can kuku use the farming as an excuse to join fitfam, muscle cannot waste.
Or they could just start one farm in their backyard, don’t say we don’t do anything for you guys.
In this age where graduates of developed countries are making ground-breaking discoveries, some people still believe Nigerian graduates would be better off learning a trade.
Nigeria will only keep up with the rest of the world if opportunities can be provided for its citizens to improve the failing sectors in the country.
Four of the most beautiful Nigerian celebrities, Beverly Naya, Mocheddah, Adesua Etomi and Sika Osei, covered the latest edition of Genevieve Magazine.
See how they’re all shining and popping.
But in spite of how empowering this cover looks with all the slayage, the quotes on this picture couldn’t be more disappointing.
And for a magazine that claims to be women-oriented, the quotes on this cover are a bit of a let-down .
It’s even more disappointing because most of us thought a cover like this would feature quotes on the things women face in the Nigerian entertainment industry.
When a magazine puts ‘Fearlessly Female’ and quotes that bring women down on the same page.
Some Nigerians aren’t pleased with this cover sha.
Not long after they were placed at the 61st position, the team dropped nine places and are now behind countries such as Uganda and Benin Republic at the 70th position.
In spite of this, African countries such as Algeria, Cote D’Ivoire and Ghana were among the top 40 teams in the world, holding the 32nd, 35th and 36th positions respectively.
Considering how great the Super Eagles were in the past, this ranking shows how poor the team’s performance has been recently.
Something should be done about this because most of these players perform brilliantly in their international teams.
We hope the sports ministry looks into this so the Super Eagles, who once achieved FIFA’s highest ranking and won several trophies, return to their past glory.
That’s what Brooklyn-based Nigerian artist, Olalekan Jeyifous, aimed to achieve with his creative photo series, Shanty Megastructures.
Using a series of 3D visuals, he created a realistic architectural view of Lagos in 2050, with massive tin towers spread across all the popular parts of the city.
According to him, the slums of Lagos are usually left out of developmental projects and are mostly targeted for demolition. By doing this, whatever development that happens in the state mostly favours the rich.
In Shanty Megastructures, he creates an idea where even the famous Makoko canal isn’t left out of the Sci-Fi age.
Although his idea isn’t perfect…
He however partnered with NLE Architects and Zoohaus/Inteligencias Colectivas to create a pollution-free and well-planned Lagos, in a previous project he called Uneven Growth.
More pictures from Olalekan’s project can be viewed here.
Finally, the Nigerian Senate gets something right and we’re so pleased with them.
On July 13, members of the Nigerian senate finally approved the ‘Discrimination Against Persons With Disabilities (Prohibition) Bill’ after its third and final reading.
This is a huge milestone considering the fact that people with disabilities have been fighting for the passing of this bill since 2007.
Announcing via his Twitter page, Senate President, Bukola Saraki, explained how the bill will finally put an end to all forms of abuse against people with disabilities.
#PromiseKept@NGRSenate's Discrimination Against Persons With Disabilities Bill will curb the abuse of Nigerians with disabilities
— Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki (@bukolasaraki) July 13, 2016
It’s good to know Nigerian Senators aren’t totally blind to the need for equal treatment of a group of people. We hope they revisit and finally pass the Gender Equality bill soon.
These are the people your Nigerian parents used to compare you to in class, the ones that had two heads:
Remember the Ades and Nkechis in your class that always came 1st while you came 21st? Here are 10 of them.
1. Samuel Achilefu
While some of you were fighting on Twitter, he invented infrared goggles which enable surgeons to see cancer cells.
2. Joan Obasi
And while Nigerian men and women were arguing over pounded yam, she became the youngest female pilot in Nigeria.
3. Laolu Senbanjo
During your amebo moment, Laolu created body paint for Beyonce and her dancers in her Lemonade album.
4. Abdul-Azeez Adeniji
While you were pressing your phone, this SS3 boy started his ICAN exams and graduated with a 1st class degree at 20.
5. Zuriel Oduwole
And while you were clapping back up and down, she was interviewing Heads of State and was the first 10-year-old to feature in Forbes Magazine.
6. Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie
While some of you were bashing feminists, she did a verse on Mummy Beyonce’s song, Flawless, and slayed the whole world when she bagged an honorary degree from John Hopkins University.
7. Mayowa Nicholas
While you were chooking your mouth in another person’s business, Mayowa Nicholas killed the runway and was the first Nigerian to ever feature in a D&G campaign.
8. Ifesinachi Nelson Ezeh
When Nigerians were fighting over who belongs in the kitchen, Kelechi worked his ass off during his M.Sc in Agronomy and became the first African to graduate with a 5.0 GPA in Russia.
9. Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna
While people were hating on private universities, Augusta came top of her class and got admitted into 8 Ivy League universities in America.
10. Ola Orekunrin
While some people were insulting people’s parents over Island VS Mainland, Ola made the Forbes List after becoming UK’s youngest doctor in 2007 and creating West Africa’s first air ambulance.
Ugandan President Museveni while returning from a World Population Day commemoration, stopped by the roadside to make a phone call that lasted 30 minutes.
But we’re wondering who brought the chair for him.
Why did he have to stop his entire convoy because of one phone call?
But who was he talking to self? Was he calling the love of his life?
What would you do if the Nigerian government blocked all social media apps for days because of some troublemakers?
Well, in Ethiopia, the most embarrassing exam leak happened when questions to an end-of-year exam which was to be taken by 254,000 university students leaked all over the internet in May.
And like typical Nigerian parents, the Ethiopian government blocked all the popular social media sites for few days, as per the students like pressing their phones too much.
Na wa o! Instead of them to tackle the exam malpractice problem directly.
Technology didn’t kuku stop people from cheating in exams before Twitter and Instagram were created.
But sha, can you imagine the Nigerian government taking this sort of ‘disciplinary action’ on its citizens? Very possible, right?
Nigerian students when they see leaked questions on the internet…
However, Ethiopians aren’t keeping quiet, the ones who currently have access to social media outside the country have condemned this action.
This is nothing but an unconstitutional State of Emergency. The Ethiopian government have no legal basis or… https://t.co/ISMZTd9v8U
Shortly after the media uproar, Ese was released to her parents but unfortunately, she was already pregnant at the time. Yinusa was however arrested and placed in police custody.
However, after spending 4 months in detention, he was released on bail and was pictured at the airport, on his way to Kano.
Being a vocal and outspoken group of people, Nigerians showed their dismay at this development.
Kidnap a 13 year old girl, rape/impregnate her, get a SAN on your defence team, get bail, go home. SHAME ON NIGERIA. https://t.co/FyIrqBfxfd
With the progress of the world into more advanced times, one would think some men would quit giving women ridiculous tips on ‘How To Keep A Man’.
Just when it looked like Nigerian Twitter was going to get through the weekend without any drama, a ‘motivational Tweeter’, Sola Adio, hit us with his nugget of the day…
He compared a woman’s vagina to a fan belt, advising women to close their legs.
Lets pretend to understand his ridiculous message for a minute and imagine he was preaching abstinence. Even at that, he forgot to mention how abstinence could be practiced by MEN and WOMEN.
The way some men keep telling women what to do with their bodies, when/who to have sex with has become boring, sincerely…
But will some Nigerian men die if they call a vagina by its biological name? All of us kuku went to school and studied biology.
Can they stop making nonsense analogies about a penis being a master key and a vagina being the padlock that mustn’t be opened by any key.
It’s about time, people stop seeing sex as some sort of gift or favour, it’s not chin chin!
And for the olodos at the back, a vagina, which is responsible for the birth of a child CANNOT be slacked by any penis.
Nigeria’s colonial years saw the building of several classical buildings that still stand till this day. A Twitter user, @Kelechinaba, over the past 2 years took pictures of some of these buildings across Nigeria.
1. He was captivated by this church in Umuahia.
2. These colourful wooden windows of a house in Lagos.
3. He captured this pink building in Ota, Ogun state.
4. The beautiful Cathedral Church of Christ which is about 70 years old.
5. This landmark in Ibadan.
6. This ancient church in Lagos.
7. The Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization, built in 1925.
8. The famous UAC building that stands tall on Tinubu street.
9. Doherty House which now houses a betting centre.
10. The over 100-year-old Nigerian Railway/Legacy mini museum which was restored in 1995.
11. This orthodox church in Ibadan.
12. The famous Cathedral of Saint Peter in Ibadan.
13. The monumental Mapo Hall of Ibadan.
If you want to see more pictures from Kelechi’s collection, go to his Twitter page here.
Featured image credit: @Kelechinaba
And it was in this moment that Nigerian musician, Brymo, chose to share another dose of ridiculousness. According to him, the black man ‘likes to suffer’.
Just a few weeks ago, he told someone who begged him to help fund his education to drop out of school.
And in this sensitive moment, he decided to blame black people for these killings.
Brymo has kuku shown his true colours.
When someone that says school is important says something shows us the importance of school…
Brymo needs to probably take history classes and learn what racism is really about.
And if he was trying to be Fela, he has obviously failed, woefully.
On July 5, Emmanuel Nnamdi and his wife Chinyere were walking through Ferno, in northern Italy, when an Italian man, Amedeo Mancini, called her an African monkey and tried to grab her.
As expected, Emmanuel came to her defence but lost his life from the resulting fight that broke out.
People who witnessed this horrific event stated how Mancini attacked first and continued to beat Emmanuel with a street sign until he lost consciousness.
Mancini, who was described as an extremist football fan with links to a far-right political party, claimed he only insulted them because he thought they were stealing a car.
What makes Emmanuel’s death more unfortunate is, he and Chinyere left Nigeria in 2015 after Boko Haram terrorists set their church on fire, killing both their parents and relatives.
After embarking on a dangerous journey to Italy through Libya, the couple were housed by a Catholic organisation that joined them in marriage in January 2016.
Italian interior minister, Angelino Alfano, condemned Emmanuel’s death with a promise to grant Chinyere refugee status .
Although Emmanuel’s wake was attended by many sympathizers, the political leader of an anti-immigrant party still blamed his death on immigration.
This goes to show how racism affects every person of colour in all parts of the world. Nigerians are entitled to live in a safe country and shouldn’t have to look for security outside the country.
We hope the Lagos state government takes into consideration the negative impact this ban will have on hawkers if another option for education or employment is not provided.
In November 2014, Irish DJ Noberto Loco made it into the Guinness Book Of Records after DJing for 200 hours even when power failure tried to stop his shine.
But at 7:30am on July 1, Nigeria’s DJ Obi snatched that title from him after DJing for over 8 days and counting.
Since he started his path into the world of music 8 years ago, DJ Obi Ajuonuma was obviously on the road to greatness when he won the Nigerian Entertainment Award for World Best DJ in 2011.
The Syndic8 Records DJ is the son of former TV host and producer, Dr Levi Ajuonuma, who died in the Dana Air plane crash in 2012.
Although he beat the world record, DJ Obi is aiming to make a 10-day set and has roughly 40 hours left.
However he won’t be receiving any cash gift but will have his name included in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Nigerians couldn’t be more proud of him.
@DjObiAjEnt should be trending. This is massive. He did it. Amazing! Give them a few more hours to chase! #DJObiWorldRecord
Kids Say The Darndest Things was one TV show many of us loved watching as children. Children came on the show to give their unrehearsed opinions on various issues.
The show which was initially created in the U.S is now being produced in Lagos for Nigerian children. Here are some of the funniest episodes:
This hilarious Father’s Day episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoAtaPNKb5o
This sassy 10-year old who loves Ariana Grande.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX6kdJ41IzA
These little girls that had so much to say about their parents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Psh3TfBf1Q
When some children had to act as customer care agents for a day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7DjWpVce9Q
Their funny reactions when they took a taste test.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I2A2czMORI
This girl’s secret confession is too funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3oH9UU29kU
To watch more episodes, check out their Youtube Channel here.
Featured image credit: Bella Naija
Elechi Amadi, one of Nigeria’s literary icons just passed on but he will be remembered for being so much more than a writer.
Nigeria is really blessed to have been the home country of Elechi Amadi, who was born in Aluu, Rivers state on May 12, 1934.
This genius writer didn’t have a degree in Literature or Arts, rather he was a trained scientist who earned a degree in Physics and Mathematics from University College, Ibadan.
However, while studying at the university, Elechi’s talent came to the surface during the times he contributed to the English department and students magazine, The Horn.
He dabbled in surveying and even taught science for a while before joining the Army and serving as captain between 1963 and 1966.
Taking his Army career further, he joined the Marine Commandos in 1968 after his first novel, The Concubine, was published in 1966.
Being a man driven to serve, he worked at different levels of government in Rivers state until 1990.
While helping in the development of his state, he still blessed Nigerians with plays and documented his experience during the war in his autobiography, Sunset in Biafra.
After his marriage to Priscilla Iyalla in 1991, he spent the rest of his days teaching and writing until his death on June 29.
He will be remembered for his revolutionary stories, his teachings and how beautifully he portrayed the richness of Nigerian culture.
According to a particular Nigerian OAP who should know better, this picture of a basketball team is racist.
This OAP claimed the team’s formation was racist because it excluded white players and was the reverse of what black people complain about.
Without wasting time, let’s take some people back to class so they can understand what racism is actually about.
Racism is when a society has a system in place that puts a certain group of people at a disadvantage based on the colour of their skin, by denying them access to equal opportunities and services.
Therefore, black people cannot be racist because we simply do not have the power to be since we are obviously oppressed by said system. And because;
So to break it down even further:
In such a society, the group of people being discriminated against, even when competent are usually not acknowledged for their contribution in mainstream industries.
For those that don’t get it, when basketball was invented in 1891, it was only accessible to white people even after the NBA was formed in 1946. As a result, most white communities had access to basketball courts and could play the game when they wanted.
However, when these white people moved to wealthier cities, people of colour occupied their communities and started putting the basketball courts to their own use.
It’s important to bear in mind that other sports remain dominated by a particular race and basketball is the only game black people have easy access to.
Before making ridiculous statements about racism, let’s not forget how basketball has become a symbol of cultural expression and social achievements in black communities even in the face of so many social barriers.
Like Jesse Williams said, “If you have no interest in equal rights for black people, then do not make suggestions to those who do”.
