Chinazam Ikechi-Uko

Sep 30, 2024 | service95.com | Chinazam Ikechi-Uko |Olivia McCrea-Hedley

The Burgundy by Chef Stone Food & Drink, Travel, List | By With its hills, parks, and a Central Business District designed by renowned Japanese architect Kenzō Tange, Abuja is as modern as a city gets. Yet the Nigerian capital is also home to a food scene that’s steeped in tradition.  In a nation of 36 states and one territory, the question of what to eat when you’re in each city becomes confusing. TikTok suggests fufu and jollof rice.

Sep 23, 2024 | morebranches.com | Chinazam Ikechi-Uko

The pandemic made it clear that we need to depend on our homegrown textiles so Lagos Fashion Week launched Woven Threads to platform these brands. After a four-minute fashion video using accessories and textiles to explore the politics of identity and culture, it was crystal clear to the audience that this designer was a genius, two years later, the world is saying the same. This is Tolu Coker.

Sep 15, 2024 | morebranches.com | Chinazam Ikechi-Uko

In 1837, the same wunderkind that wrote the fairy tales, The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, the Snow Queen, and Ugly Duckling, released his treasured satirical tale– The Emperor’s New Clothes. The Danish writer, Hans Christian Andersen, paints a scene of a vain emperor who believes he is wearing the world’s finest garment but in reality, “The emperor has no clothes on.”A modern spin-off of the tale has been born, however, it is less fiction than its 19th-century counterpart.

May 19, 2023 | atqnews.com | Chinazam Ikechi-Uko

From October 26th to 29th, the Federal Palace Hotel was filled with people in brightly coloured attires, faux fur, grunge aesthetics, bejewelled textiles, Y2K garments and many more. There was a 100% chance that they were there for the Lagos fashion week. The highly anticipated annual fashion week of the fashion centre in Africa, Lagos fashion was nothing less than amazing. The event was met with a lot of positive reviews and the street style was incredible.