Category: Spotlight
Oby Ezekwesili joins Yale University as senior fellow
A former Minister of Education, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili, and five other global figures have joined the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs as senio [...]
Finnish company flies 22 year old Nigerian drone maker to Finland
22-year-old Nigerian man, Ignatius Asabor who has been making drones and post it on social media is now in Finland.
According to Hon. Obi-Wes [...]
A self deceiving country called Nigeria
Twenty-one senators currently receiving pensions from government as ex-governors and deputy governors.
The current senators who once served as gove [...]
Meet Nigerian born Yekemi Otaru, a chancellor in Scotland varsity
Yekemi Otaru, a Nigerian-born serial entrepreneur, has just been named the chancellor-elect of the University of the West of Scotland.
Otaru who [...]
Abati, Arise TV’s pr show, and Buhari’s dementia
That even the vaguest pretense to traditional watchdog journalism is in throes of death in Nigeria’s institutional news media was instantiated by [...]
Kemi Adeosun back from oblivion, launches online thrifty initiative for charity
The Dash Me Foundation founded by Kemi Adeosun, former minister of finance, has launched “Dash Me Store”, an online thrift-for-charity initiative.
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Rema, Ifan Michael among six Nigerians on Forbes Africa’s ’30 Under 30′ list
Rema, a singer, Ifan Michael, a filmmaker, and Timilehin Bello, founder of Media Panache, a PR firm, are among six Nigerians listed in the 2021 editio [...]
Covenant, UI, UNILAG rated top Nigerian Univerities
Covenant University, Ota, University of Ibadan and University of Lagos have emerged as the top varsities in Nigeria according to a rating by Times [...]
Nigerian born Amanda Amaeshi named Glasgow Times Young Scotswoman of the year
Amanda Amaeshi, a Scot of Nigerian descent, has won the Glasgow Times Young Scotswoman of the Year (Young SWOTY) 2020.
Callum Baird, the newspape [...]
Nigerian company makes Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Companies For 2021
A Nigerian digital payment platform, Flutterwave has been named a “Pioneer” on the TIME’s 2021 list of the 100 most influential companies in the world [...]