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The late Dr. Stella Adadevoh will be posthumously awarded the Distinguished Fellowship of the National Post-graduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN), Ijanikin, Lagos

In the past decade, Nollywood (a term used to describe Nigeria’s movie industry, coined by New York Times journalist Norimitsu Onishi in 2002) movies have generated millions of dollars in box office numbers and the popularity of Nigerian movies have reached global levels.  Unfortunately, as with many things in Nigeria, women have benefited the least from Nollywood’s success. Roles in front of, and behind the camera, are still heavily dominated by men while considerably more male-led productions are greenlit or able to secure funding relative to the female-led options.  Perhaps most egr...

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Alumni group honours Adadevoh six years after death The Punch Published 15 May 2021 Over six years after her death, the Queen’s School Ede/Ibadan Old Girls Association is set to honour the late Dr Ameyo Adadevoh with the inauguration of a multipurpose building. The event holds at the Bell Event Centre, Lagos Island, on May 22, according to a statement by the association titled, ‘Dr Ameyo Stella Adadevoh: The Ebola Heroine.’ The association said women were making an indelible mark in various fields from politics to finance to sports to healthcare, and so on, but said that...