Eighty-six new cases of #COVID19 have been reported; 70 in Lagos 7 in FCT 3 in Katsina 3 in Akwa Ibom 1 in Jigawa 1 in Bauchi 1 in Borno As at 11:50 pm 19th April there are 627 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Discharged: 170 Deaths: 21
A certain family in Abia state are having their offsprings recognised by US magazine, Vogue. Sisters, Akwaeke and Yagazie Emezi are featured in February issue of US Vogue magazine, under the article: 5 Families Who are Changing The World as We Know It. Yagazie, a documentary photographer and Akwaeke, a writer were photographed by legedary American photographer, Annie Leibovitz. The sisters are of Igbo and Malaysian heritage and grew up in Aba, Abia State. See an excerpt from the article written about them: When Yagazie Emezi was about six, she was hospitalized after being run over by a truck. (Luckily, she says, her bones were still growing.) To the Nigerian-born documentary photographer, the experience was more formative than traumatic. “I’ve had the scar for most of my life,” says Yagazie. “I don’t remember myself without it.” Yagazie’s matter-of-fact attitude informs her ongoing project Re?learning Bodies , a series of photographs of people from African communiti