Category: Awards/Recognitions

27-Year-Old Makes History As First Hijab-Wearing Senator In Australia

ADEOLA YUSUF

A 27-year-old woman has made history in Australia by becoming the country’s first hijab-wearing senator. Fatima Payman, the daughter of refugees from Afghanistan, represents West Australia. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party. Payman has a record of working for young people from culturally diverse communities. She also speaks for the working-class community, to which she belongs. Her father worked as a tax driver and a kitchen hand to support his family. READ ALSO: Kano Girl-Hawker In Viral Maths Video Bags World Bank Scholarship 11 Yr-Old Girl Gets…

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11 Yr-Old Girl Gets Highest Mensa IQ Score, ‘Beating Einstein, Hawking’

ADEOLA YUSUF

Sharifi’s score is significantly over the “genius threshold” of 140   An 11-year-old Iranian school girl has just become the new face of braininess after receiving the highest possible score on the Mensa IQ test.Tara Sharifi, a student from Aylesbury High School in the United Kingdom, recently took the test in Oxford and received an astounding 162 points. Sharifi’s score is significantly over the “genius threshold” of 140. Albert Einstein is believed to have had the same IQ as Professor Stephen Hawking, 160 (Einstein himself never took the IQ test…

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Lawal Sets Three Weightlifting Records, Wins Nigeria’s 2nd Gold

ADEOLA YUSUF

Rafiatu Lawal on Sunday won Nigeria’s second gold medal in the weightlifting event at the ongoing 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, UK. Lawal in the process set three Commonwealth Games records in the women’s 59kg final, lifting 90kg in snatch, 116kg in clean and jerk, and 206kg in total. READ ALSO: Adijat Olarinoye Lifts Nigeria’s 1st GOLD medal In Birmingham Vehicle Crushes Five Ogun Motorcyclists, Kills Three Nigerian Doctors Threaten Strike Over Unpaid Wages Jessica Brown of England emerged second in the event with 197kg in total to win the…

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Portable Mocks Headies, Reacts To 2022 Award Ban

ADEOLA YUSUF

  “I am rich. People know me everywhere. I don’t regret my actions,” singer who calls himself “were Olorin,” says in a reaction to Headies’ disqualification + Wahala Musician: Chronicles of a Singer and His Controversies   Singer Habeeb Okikiola, aka Portable, has mocked organisers of The Headies Awards in a reaction to his disqualification for the 15th edition scheduled to hold later this year. Platforms Africa has on Tuesday reported that the Headies Awards’ organisers announced the disqualification of Portable for being the subject of an investigation relating to criminal activities.…

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JUST IN: Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan Breaks Women 100m Hurdles’ Record

ADEOLA YUSUF

World 100m hurdles record holder, Tobi Amusan, in the early hours of Monday (Sunday in Oregon), won the women’s 100m hurdles gold at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. And she did it by going faster than the 12.12s world record time she ran in the semi-finals, but her 12.06s in the final wasn’t recognised as a world record owing to the over 2m/s wind speed. Amusan had blitzed to a world record 12.12s in the semi-finals but obliterated that mark with a superb 12.06s to become the first…

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Nursing Mother Bags BSc Civil Engineering from US Varsity

ADEOLA YUSUF

How Khadijah Ceesay graduated at Howard University, Washington DC, United States despite having to combine her studies with caring for her newborn son A young and brilliant African Lady who hailed from The Gambia, Khadijah Ceesay has graduated from Howard University, Washington DC, United States despite having to combine her studies with caring for her newborn son. Khadijah who graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering celebrated her achievement on Twitter noting that she was resilient and never gave up when things got tough for her during her academic…

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Nigerian Olujimi Fafowora Bags 1st Class in Maths at Oxford Varsity

ADEOLA YUSUF

21 year-old grandson of Ambassador and Mrs Dapo Fafowora becomes second Nigeria to set the maths record at Oxford Another Nigerian, Mr. Olujimi Fafowora, has made a first-class honours degree at the University of Oxford in England. Fafowora, 21, graduated summa cum laude in mathematics at St. Peter’s College, Oxford. READ ALSO: Nigerian Who Once Hawked Wares to Feed Bags Distinction at US Varsity JUST IN: Pay CJN N10m, S’Court Justices N9m Monthly Salary, Court To Govt BREAKING: Ghana Announces 15% Pay Rise For Workers Lagos Top Educationist, Olubunmi Ibiyemi…

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13 Year-Old Girl Breaks US Varsity Admission Record

ADEOLA YUSUF

An exceptional girl named Alena Analeigh has set a new record as the youngest African-American girl to be admitted into a medical school in the United States after gaining admission into the University of Alabama Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine at the age of 13. Alena Analeigh had previously gained admission to the Arizona State University, Arizona, United States to study Engineering at the young age of 12 years old. After one year of studying Engineering, she decided to switch her career path to becoming a Medical Doctor. She took…

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Why I resigned To Start Law Firm – 25 Year-Old Black Female Attorney

ADEOLA YUSUF

Meet the 25-Year Old Black Lawyer Who Runs Her Own Law Firm At the age of 25, Sinenhlanhla Passcara Mthembu is the proud founder and director of her own law firm. Based in Durban, South Africa, her firm is called Passcara and Partners Incorporated and focuses on family law, personal injury, and more. Although she knows that she is much younger than most lawyers who have their own law firm, she did not allow her age to stop her from making history! After finishing law school, she went on to…

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How I Graduated With 23 Distinctions, Female Software Developer Shares Secret

ADEOLA YUSUF

“22 distinctions of 26 modules-15 academic awards, 4 certifications and average of 92,7% later in Software Development from Damelin College in South Africa. This is what I did” A brilliant South African Lady, Zinhle Sibanyoni has graduated as a Software Developer from Damelin College in South Africa with 23 distinctions and a grade point average of 92.7%. Zinhle Sibayomi who celebrated her achievement on Linkedin shared a video of her father and mother decorating her on her graduation day. READ ALSO: 3 Nigerian Students Beat 68,000 Applicants, Win N5m Microsoft…

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