The Africa Fashion Week Nigeria, AFWN, was established in 2014 to showcase talented fashion designers who remain largely unknown and to further strengthen and develop the international competitiveness of Nigeria’s fashion industry.

Africa Fashion Week Nigeria is an initiative that will celebrate and promote Nigeria’s diverse fashion culture.

It acts as a tool for designers who cannot yet afford to showcase on an international platform, giving them a chance to show their collections on the runway.

Talking about how she started, Princess Ronke said, I don’t like doing things small because the same time and effort you spent doing something small is the same time you spend doing something big so we started big in 2011 and we had about 60 designers from the continent of Africa and about 4700 visitors turned up.

It has been growing since then and the success of the first Africa Fashion Week in London has inspired so many people to start up fashion week in cities around the world.

Did you ever feel obligated to make sure it had everything to do with Africa or did you try to involve other cultures as well?

It’s African fashion week, it’s promoting African fashion, it’s showcasing the best of African fashion.

However, we do have some other people who are not really Africans but there are interested in the African cultures and fashion because when the designers come they don’t just come to showcase on the runway, they come with their culture and Africa has about 300,000 different tribes and when they come on the runway, it’s always a mixture of vibrant colours, culture and heritage fabric.

You do have an adIre hub in Ilefe yea?

Yes

Tell us about it.

It is an indigenous Adire factory. We opened it in 2021 under the chairmanship of his imperial Majesty Ooni of Ife. It was opened as a Covid bounce-back facility.

His majesty and I came up with the idea of using our heritage fabric as a way of creating a tour for women in the local community and since then it’s been growing.

We now work with the Obafemi Awolowo University under the textile department. Merging the student and women together to come up with innovative and creative modern designs.

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How Woman Absconded with Three-Day-Old Baby in Ibadan [VIDEO]

The baby’s mother, Monsurat Lateef, 36, was duped by Adepoju, 23, who lives in the Badore neighborhood of Ajah, Lagos State, by professing to be in desperate need of housing.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, in a statement on Wednesday, said the suspect had a stillbirth and went to a hospital in Ibadan for treatment, where she met the 36-year-old mother of the baby, Monsurat Lateef.

The statement read, “The dragnet of the eagle-eyed crack detectives attached to the command’s Special Enquiry Bureau caught up with one Itunu Adepoju, 23, of Badore area, Ajah, Lagos State, who on July 19, 2022, surreptitiously absconded with a three-day-old female baby from her mother.

“Preliminary findings reveal that the mother, Monsurat Lateef, was delivered a female child on Saturday, July 16, 2022, to the delight of her family at the Mission House, Yahora Faith Mission, Itamerin, Ogbere.

“On Tuesday, July 19, 2022, she proceeded to Abaemu General Hospital, Ona-Ora, to initiate immunization proceedings for her daughter from where she met the suspect, who approached her as a friendly patient who also sought medical treatment.

He urged citizens of the state to continue being helpful and unwavering in their provision of timely and reliable information, capable of always preventing crime before it starts.

See the video below for more!

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The boys identified as, Bamidele Ayodele Samson, Bamidele Philip, Tunji Oladapo Sowale, Bololaji Olalekan and Abdulrauf Abiodun where arrested at the Ologuneru Area of the metropolitan city of Ibadan and at Akobo, Ibadan, Oyo State.

Others are: Olaleye Pelumi, Anuokuwapo Olanrewaju, Paul Damilola, Olateye David Tobi, Arewa Adekunle Ibrahim, Oyesanmi Ayomikun Oluwaseun, Olaleye Israel, Adediran Kemisola, Omobolade Alarape and Olowolusi Oluwatomisin.

The four other suspects arrested early hours of Friday, February 1, 2019 at their hideout at Akobo, Ibadan are, Babatunde Afeez, Akorede Ahmed Olalekan, Adeleye Damilola and Moshod Richard.

In a sting operation led by the zonal head, Friday Ebelo, Ibadan zonal head, the suspects who are between the ages of 21 and 35 years were taken by surprise when operatives swept on them at one of their notorious havens in the city.

Five of them allegedly claimed to be undergraduates while the other 10 claimed to be self-employed in varied vocations.

The EFCC was tipped off that the young men engaged in various fraudulent activities ranging from obtaining money by false pretences through sending of scam emails to unsuspecting victims mostly in the United States of America, while others were engaged in romance scam on several dating sites.

At the point of arrest, EFCC operatives recovered four different models and brands of exotic cars, five laptops, 20 telephones (10 iPhones) and one small bag containing items suspected to be fetish objects (juju) from them. Several documents, including international passports, and ATM cards were recovered from them.

In a related development, operatives also arrested four other suspects on February 1, 2019 at their hideout at Akobo, Ibadan. The suspected cyber criminals are between 21 and 30 years.

Their arrest followed series of intelligence alleging that the suspected fraudsters engaged in fraudulent activities of obtaining money by false pretenses from unsuspecting victims.

At the point of their arrest, EFCC operatives recovered SIM cards, one exotic car, laptops, telephones, female underwear’s and four bags of fetish objects (juju) from them. Several documents containing false pretences were also recovered from the suspects.

They will all soon be charged to court.

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This, as the trial Judge, Justice Munta Abimbola also has lambasted the defence counsel, Leye Adepoju for applying for the case to be transferred to another judge and court.

Yewande’s defence counsel are accusing Justice Abimbola, who is the chief judge of the state,of bias in the handling of the case.

Justice Abimbola was furious in his response,promising to continue to protect the dignity and reputation of his court.

Government Workers In Taraba State have shut down the secretariat in Jalingo.

They are protesting against against the non-payment of their salaries.

The State Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), said they were protesting against other irregularities in the payment of salaries of workers and pensions of retirees in the state.

The chairman listed other irregularities as illegal deductions from salaries and subjection of workers to meaningless screenings and futile verifications by the government.

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Although a funny story, the comedian said that while it was going on, there was nothing funny about it.

“I stayed in Benin with my elder sister for a while and I was so much in love with the girl back then. It was during the time when you would be talking to a girl that you like her but she would not give you any response. Then I would go back home and begin to play Westlife songs and when I was done, I would move to Plantainshun Boys. I just finished secondary school during that period.

“Eventually, I had to come back to Lagos but that did not stop me from seeing her. I would wake up around 4am, leave Lagos for Benin and return that same day. The road was very bad and sometimes, I would spend about ten hours on the road. I would only get to see the girl for about two or three hours, then I would rush back to Lagos. That was how much I was in love but she never appreciated it. I did not have money then. There was a time we tried to re-connect on Facebook but I had got married then and I am very happy with my wife,” he said.

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Briefing newsmen shortly after the closed session, Oyo State Governor Senator Abiola Ajimobi emphasised the need for regular interface amongst leaders in the region.

Correspondent Olutayo Famous Cole report that it’s a convergence of Governors from the nation’s Southwest region and they are in Ibadan the administrative and Political capital of the Old western State to brainstorm, now that most states are battling with financial and sustainability challenges.

The Consensus amongst Leaders here is that political differences had overtime promted division within the region.

The Leaders say it’s time to search for ways through which collective aspiration could be met.

It was not all about the challenges, the southwest Leaders also identified education as the foundation of development, which the region was identified with in the past.

To get back on track Industrial activities are set to be revamped, to achieve this the governors seek to develop through innovative thinking and integrated regional transport and energy infrastructure which they are sure would reignite the pioneering and revolutionary spirit of the southwest region.

Determined to forge a new path for the region, the governors have agreed to meet on a more frequent basis, with their next meeting scheduled for Ekiti state.

There, strategies to empower Nigerians to be more self reliant to weather the challenges of life would be discussed.

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According to the fixtures, FC Ifeanyiuba of Nnewi will lock horns with giant killers, Crown FC of Ogbomosho, in the first semi-final billed for the Ahmadu Bello Stadium in Kaduna on September 18.

In the other semi-final, last year’s finalists Nasarawa United Football Club of Lafia will slug it out with Enyimba International FC of Aba at the Adamasingba Stadium, Ibadan.

The winners of the two semi-finals will clash for the coveted trophy in a venue yet to be announced, but Lagos that has hosted the past four finals may again host the final.

The women Federation Cup semi-finals will take place on September 21 in Owerri and Enugu respectively.

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General Officer Commanding 2 Division of the Nigerian Army who led other sister security agencies on the walk, Major General Kassimu Abdulkarim emphasized that the essence of the exercise was to improve mental balance and healthy living amongst security agents in the state.

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They were brutally killed in the first counter coup witnessed in the nation’s history.

The brutal killings occurred as Fajuyi played host to Aguiyi-Ironsi.

The consensus amongst speakers who attended the golden anniversary of the incident was that Col Fajuyi was a patriot who rarely gets attention despite laying down his life in order to avert a bloody national dislocation.

With the present always in constant dialogue with the past, speakers reechoed the urgent need  to reshape the national psyche and remold people’s attitude in the search for a national identity.

They reasoned that such goals can not be achieved when a gallant soldier like Lt Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi  who chose  to voluntarily sacrifice his life  in the counter coup of 29th January 1966  when cornered with his guest and then prime target, Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi, does not get due credit.

The speakers insist that true Nigerian heroes who made extraordinary sacrifice can be immortalised when history as a subject is included in the nation’s education curriculum, using indigenous language as the medium of communication.

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Fosla Academy Secondary School, Abuja, Government (Senior) Secondary School Darazo, Bauchi State, Excel Education Centre, Port Harcourt, Rivers State and Asegun Comprehensive High School, Ibadan, Oyo State, are now set for the semifinals of the 2016 ‘All Nigeria Secondary Schools Football Championship’, also known as NNPC/Shell Cup, which will be holding this weekend in Lagos.

Draws for the semi-finals will be taking place between 2.00pm and 4.00pm respectively this weekend says organizers of the competition.

Igo Weli, Shell’s External Relations Manager said the sponsors had enjoyed contributing to the society through the development of youths. He said plans were in place to make the final stage of the competition memorable for all, both participants and lovers of football.

Weli said “We are always proud of this competition because the results are there for us. Nigeria has benefited so much because many of our products are now super stars”.

The final is slated to hold June 16.

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