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FG COMMENDS OMOTOLA, MO ABUDU, AND CHIMAMANDA

FG COMMENDS OMOTOLA, MO ABUDU, AND CHIMAMANDA

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The Federal Government has applauded the powerful trio of Mo Abudu, Chimamanda Adichie, and Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, on the honour recently bestowed on them on the global stage.

In a statement issued by his special adviser Segun Adeyemi in Abuja on Sunday, Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the three honorees are iconic women in the Creative Industry, who have brought great honour, not only to themselves, their families and their industry but, also, to the country.

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Mo Abudu [Image: Ebony Life]
He described as “well deserved’’, the listing of Mo Abudu, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of EbonyLife TV, and Nollywood star Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde among the top 50 women doing extraordinary things on the worldwide stage.

Lai Mohammed said the already well-adorned cap of Chimamanda Adichie had been further festooned.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [Image: Fidelityhouse]
He stated that her novel, Americanah, was listed in the New York Times’ list of 15 remarkable books by women that are “shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century”

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The minister said the women were role models whose achievements would inspire a generation of young Nigerians to also do extraordinary things.  In the words of Nelson Mandela. ‘it always seems impossible until it’s done’. What heights are you struggling to achieve?

 

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