Craig is a Blockchain innovator and a co-founder of stablecoin, NFTs, and Tether. He is also a member of Omni Foundation, where he uses Omni Protocol to allow users to create and trade smart-contract-based properties and currencies on top of Bitcoin’s blockchain. He was an advisor to Block.one between April 2017 to 2018, before joining OmniBOLT (Basis … Read more
Vice President Kashim Shettima has been nurturing a new generation of young politicians since his tenure as the Governor of Borno State. One of them is Ishaq Ahmed Ningi, a Bauchi-born, trained architect. His inclusion in the list of new appointees by President Bola Tinubu in September 2023 as a Senior Special Assistant to the … Read more
Ayodele Olawande aka “Ayo Wisdom” was confirmed as Federal Minister of State for Youth on Wednesday, October 4, 2023. He will be working with Jamila Ibrahim to manage the Federal Ministry of Youth. He was nominated by President Bola Tinubu in September. InfomediaNG learnt that the 34-year-old Ondo indigene Ayo Wisdom is the youngest minister in … Read more
A 37-year-old Dr. Jamila Bio Ibrahim is not a new name for those who have been following the activities of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) in Nigeria since 2019. She was confirmed as a Federal Minister of Youth on Wednesday, October 4, 2023, by The Senate. This article covers everything you might not know about … Read more
After some discrepancies in his NYSC certificate, a ministerial nominee from Ondo State Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo was cleared on Monday, July 31, 2023, by Nigeria’s Senate. The former member of the House of Representatives was among the over 40 nominees for ministerial roles. And on August 16, 2023, Tunji-Ojo was assigned the portfolio of the … Read more
South African richest person Johann Rupert isn’t a strange name on Africa’s billionaire ranking, but his name reverberated on Friday, June 16, 2023, when he “overthrew” a 10-time richest African, taking the number one spot from Alhaji Aliko Dangote. But Nigeria’s wealthiest man has now regained his No. 1 spot and is still the No. … Read more
The new Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Senator George Akume was a governor of Benue State at the same time the incumbent President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was governor of Lagos between May 29, 1999-May 29, 2007. After leaving Benue Government House, he headed straight to the Senate and was there from May … Read more
When cryptocurrency was relatively new in Nigeria, a centralized trading platform NairaEX was founded on November 9, 2015 by David Ajala. At the time he founded the crypto platform for Nigerians to buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum, the closing price for BTC was $380.26, according to StatMuse while Dollar to Naira exchange rate at the time … Read more
On September 17, 2023, a few months after Ameen Amshi celebrated his 29th birthday, President Bola Tinubu appointed him as the Senior Special Assistant on Special Duties in the Office of the Vice President. He was among the youngest appointees in the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC). Who is Ameen Amshi? Born Musa Amshi Muhammad Al-Amin on March … Read more
From her party’s primaries to the day of the governorship election in Adamawa State, Senator Aishatu Dahiru Binani is the definition of an unrelenting fighter. She is on the path to becoming the first elected female governor in Nigeria, especially in a region that believes that a woman should be at home playing a womanly … Read more