It’s all about making big impression this season, so make sure you stock up on statement-making accessories. Bold, colorful, and unique are the key words here. Whatever strikes your mood is up for grabs.

In a bid to encourage and enhance the culinary skills of young Nigerian girls who would be future mothers, Alhaja Shakirat Bayewu, Chairperson of Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government Area, recently organized a Cooking competition for Senior Secondary Schools in the area through her pet project Women for positive change.

The award pre-show at this year’s Soundcity Music Video Awards on November 20 is reportedly planned to be a full_on fashion show production quite unlike anything domestic audiences have ever seen before.

In 2005, she was a naive, 18 year old geography undergraduate when she escorted her friend to the Silverbird office to submit her form for the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria pageant. But on getting there, some members of staff discovered Omowunmi Akinnifesi to be a beautiful girl and wondered why she was not picking the form herself. She was encouraged to do so and she heeded the advice filling and submitting the form on the very last day entry forms were to be submitted. The rest as they say, is history for she went on to win that contest, emerging as the Most beautiful Girl in Nigeria 2005.

If you as a woman were asked to count the stars on your crown that tell the story of each woman you have helped to come up the ladder, how many stars would you have on your crown?. . . This powerful question was posed to me by Ini Onuk, Executive Secretary of WIMBIZ (Women in Management and Business), during the recent interview she granted me.