Archive for the ‘Inspirational’ Category

Raising Cancer Awareness… Oby Edozieh Launches Cancer Foundation

Raising Cancer Awareness… Oby Edozieh Launches Cancer Foundation

It was a night of glitz and glamour on Friday, August 27 and Sunday August 29, 2010 as Nollywood diva, Oby Edozieh premiered her high budget movie, “Save Our Souls” and also launched her cancer foundation, Oby Gold Cancer Foundation. The movie premiere and foundation launch was host to the high and mighty with eminent [...]

Chinua Achebe, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Wole Soyinka, and 25 others Nominated for Nigerian Hall of Fame

Chinua Achebe, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Wole Soyinka, and 25 others Nominated for Nigerian Hall of Fame

Twenty eight Great Nigerians will be inducted to The Nigerian Hall of Fame for Science and The Nigerian Hall of Fame for Letters on the 9th of October. It will be hosted by Nigeria LNG Limited, The Nigerian Academy of Science and The Nigerian Academy of Letters. These twenty eight individuals have broke barriers in [...]

Shuga Band Asks – Who Needs A Limb? [Reaching Out To The Disabled]

Shuga Band Asks – Who Needs A Limb? [Reaching Out To The Disabled]

Nigeria’s foremost band, Shuga Band is looking for something unusual. The band which had played for high and mighty in Nigeria and beyond is in search of people without limb or limb challenge through its foundation, Shuga Limb Foundation (SLF). Just like the saying goes that he who wears the shoe knows where it pinches, [...]

Real People, Real Issues…and A Real GOD

Real People, Real Issues…and A Real GOD

I have had the burden to write something on real life issues for a long time but have not gotten the courage to, or should I say because I still had some very real issues to deal with. I finally decided to write about it because I have come to realize that it’s not just [...]

Nneka Featured On CNN’s African Voices

Nneka Featured On CNN’s African Voices

Our very own Nigerian Soul Singer, Nneka is making bigger and bigger strides internationally. CNN’s weekly show, African Voices features her this week, and she touches on a range of subjects ranging from her music, to politics in Africa. Born to a Nigerian father and German mother, Nneka grew up in her hometown of Warri, [...]

Face In The Mirror

Face In The Mirror

We all get to look at the mirror at least three times in a day every day of our lives, even when we are ill. Each time we look in the mirror we see the same facial features differently, we have different opinions about what we see and what we want to see. I want [...]

Whitman Writes!

Whitman Writes!

Nkem Akinsoto aka Myne Whitman is a Nigerian writer/editor based in Seattle, USA, and currently writes on her website www.mynewwhitmanwrites.com. Her blog runs a web-based naija blogsville interactive story on www.mynewhitmanwrites.com. The blog started out with excerpts from a manuscript she was writing which she has now self-published via AuthorHouse. Nkem Akinsoto has released a [...]

CNN Reports on Book Author Uwem Akpan

CNN Reports on Book Author Uwem Akpan

Best selling Author of “Say You’re One of Them,” Uwem Akpan is covered by CNN. Check it out.

Vote for Betty Makoni CNN’s Top 10 2009 Hero

Please Vote for Betty Makoni CNN’s top 10 2009 Heroes. Go to http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/ and cast your vote for this wonderful lady who is a native of Zimbabwe and founded the Girl Child Network which provides haven for young victims of sexual abuse. Voting continues until Thursday, November 19, 2009 and to find out more about this year’s [...]

Chimamanda Adichie – The Danger Of A Single Story

Chimamanda Adichie – The Danger Of A Single Story

Check out Chimamanda vid on her story and life, and The Danger Of A Single Story. Very interesting and inspirational.