Tag: Nigeria

Tanitoluwa Adewumi: The eight-year-old Nigerian who won a state chess championship in US

Tanitoluwa Adewumi, second son in the Adewumi family is a rising chess…

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The Adewumi family: The day Boko Haram militants came to our home

The Adewumi family have fled from knocking terror in their home country…

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Precious Orji on turning talent into Paralympic gold for Nigeria

It was love at first lift for Josephine Precious Orji, the Nigerian…

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Babatunde Olatunji: The Nigerian drummer who set the beat for US civil rights

Three years before Rosa Parks' bus boycott, Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji protested…

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Ernestina Okwuchukwu: ‘I hustled my way to success’

Living happy, carefree and with few of life’s luxuries available to her…

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Omoyele Sowore: Defying brutal cults in Nigeria

When he was barely a teenager, popular dissident journalist, Omoyele Sowore, knew…

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Chinenye Okafor: ‘Lack of pay saw me quit football for hairdressing’

When you've just won promotion back to the top division for your…

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Temilayo Abodunrin: The 10-year-old Nigerian saxophonist

Temilayo Abodunrin loves music. The 10-year-old Nigerian saxophonist preferred musical toys in…

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Nigeria’s viral ballet dancer wins a US scholarship

Anthony Mmesoma Madu is known as Nigeria’s viral ballet dancer. When a…

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The millennial priestess – Omitonade Ifawemimo

Very often when the name priest or a priestess is mentioned, one…

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