Noni Salma formerly known as Habeeb Babatunde Lawal is a Nigerian transgender who was an entrainment journalist before he relocated to the United States.

Salma is a Nigerian transgender film-maker, actress and screen writer whose growing up experiences in Lagos, has inspired her story telling.

The Theatre Arts graduate of the University of Lagos adopted his new lifestyle after he gained admission into the New York Academy in New York.

Habeeb Lawal who is now living as a woman in the United States is causing outrage online openly rebuking Nigeria’s tough stand on homosexuality and transgenderism.

-9News Nigeria.