Category: Spotlight
Nigerian, Zulfat Suara becomes first Muslim to be elected to Nashville Metro Council
A Nigerian, Zulfat Suara has made history as she became the first Muslim to be elected to Nashville’s Metro Council. Suara was elected to fill one of [...]
UI College of Medicine clinches 4th position in Africa in World University ranking
Prof. Olubunmi Olapade-Olaopa, the Provost of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, has said that the 71-year-old medical college has clinche [...]
Uzoma Asagwara makes history as 1 of 3 blacks elected in Canadian parliament
No black person had ever been elected to the Manitoba Legislature Assembly in the 150-year history of the province, until Nigerian psychiatric nurse o [...]
Video: I wept when returnees sang the National Anthem – Air Peace Chairman
Allen Onyema, chairman of Air Peace, said he wept when Nigerians who were returning from South Africa mobbed him and sang the country’s anthem. Onyema [...]
A tale of Buhari, Nana Akufo-Addo and Toyota
Two West African leaders went to Japan last week. Two of them lobbied Toyota to invest in their nations. But Toyota chose to invest in Ghana and snub [...]
Nigerian, Oluyinka Olutoye appointed surgeon-in-chief in top US hospital
Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio, the United States, has appointed Oluyinka Olutoye, a Nigerian medical doctor, as its surgeon-in-chief. The hos [...]
Meet Chinedu Echeruo who made $1m from sale of app firm to Apple
Chinedu Echeruo, founder of HopStop.com is now $1 billion richer courtesy of the sale of his company to Apple. HopStop.com makes mobile applications f [...]
Igbo security guard, William Okogbue rewarded for returning $10,000
William Okogbue, a security guard with Hogan Guards Limited, formerly known as Guardsmark, has been rewarded for returning a bag containing $10,000. T [...]
Unilag postgraduate students invent flood level caution device
Three University of Lagos students have invented a vehicular road advance electronic flood level caution device for detection of water levels on major [...]
Nigerian schoolgirls create app to finance education of poor children
A group of five Nigerian schoolgirls working as team ‘Brain Squad’ have created an application that would help finance the education of poor children [...]