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FRSC Celebrates Women-in-Uniform
As the world celebrates excelling women around the
globe, in commemoration of 2021 UN International Women’s
Day, the Federal Road Safety Corps, Lagos State Command,
in partnership with #sisterART Global Visual Arts
Community, is set to host the maiden edition of WOMEN-IN-
UNIFORM.
Billed to hold tomorrow at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium,
Alausa Secretariat, Lagos, wife of the Lagos State Governor,
Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, will speak on this year’s theme
“Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a
Covid-19 world,”
The event, according to Chairman of the Planning
Committee, Assistant Corps, Commander Emma Fekoya,
Unit Commander Ikeja Command, is put together
to acknowledge and appreciate the efforts of all the
women working with different Military and Paramilitary
organisations in Lagos.
Commending the women, she said,
“The gallant efforts of these women in keeping
their home-front together while serving in different
capacities in their various organizations especially in
this era of the pandemic cannot be overemphasized.”
Blessing Okagbare Makes
Guinness Book of Records
Nigeria’s track and field queen, Blessing
Okagbare, was recently inducted into the
Guinness Book of Records for the most
appearances in Diamond League meetings. For
the award-winning athlete who revealed this
on her Facebook page, this is a dream made a
reality through God’s grace and determination.
The certificate reads: “The most appearances
in Diamond League meetings by an athlete is
67 and was achieved by Blessing Okagbare
(Nigeria) between 3 July 2010 and 31 August
2018”. The certificate was branded ‘OFFICIALLY
AMAZING.’
Okagbare, who recently set two new personal
indoor records at the Doyle Sports Management
Meeting, won an Olympic silver medal at the
2008 Games as a 19-year-old in the Long Jump.
She has also won a World Championships
Silver, and is the current African record holder
in the 200m and in the 4x200m with the Nigerian
team.
Stories by - Yemisi Suleiman
Tara Fela-Durotoye
Tara Fela-Durotoye and
Temi Giwa-Tunbosun make
LeadHERs List
As part of its celebration of International
Women’s Month, Facebook announced the
launch of LeadHERs: Life Lessons From
African Women, a collection of beautifully
inspired stories and life advice from 19
women who are breaking boundaries
in fields such as; media, entertainment,
politics, education and business.
Temi Giwa-Tunbosun
Among the women across Africa
whose stories are being told in
the book are two Nigerian women,
Tara Fela-Durotoye, CEO, House of
Tara International, and Temi Giwa-
Tunbosun, Founder/CEO, LifeBank,
a technology and logistics company
based in Lagos, set up to tackle the
problem of blood shortage in Nigeria.
The company now also operates in
Kenya and Ethiopia, has saved over
14,000 lives till date. These women,
among others, were selected for their
ground-breaking achievements in their
choosen fields.
Available for free in digital and
physical formats, the book provides
inspirational real-life stories for future
generations and young leaders is
aimed at encouraging, inspiring and
guiding the reader, no matter the
background, age or ambition.
Okonjo-Iweala breaks
the norm with her
style
The resumption of Nigeria’s former
Minister of Finance and the Economy,
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, last Monday,
as the new Director-General of the
World Trade Organisation, WTO,
resonated across the globe.
More significantly however, was
her outfit at her first day at work; she
ditched the formal skirt suit for the
traditional Ankara skirt and blouse
and her famous head tie, breaking the
norm of the formal dress code.
The 66-year-old who is the first
woman, and the first African, to
occupy the position, is fiercely patriotic
with her dress sense and is famous
for flaunting her African identity in her
African-print tailored outfits, no matter
the occasion; a divergence which
signals her fashion autonomy, which
has been accepted as her identity
world over.