On September 24,2021, eToro, a global multi-asset investment platform, announced the launching of a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) portfolio that put financial services on the blockchain. Since its founding in 2007, the innovations by the socio-crypto trading platform has been outstanding, the question we don’t always ask is: who is the brain behind the success stories of … Read more
As the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele operated 593 foreign bank accounts, consented to the withdrawal of over $6 million from the Forex vault of the CBN, and stashed over £543 million in one of his accounts domiciled in the United Kingdom among other financial malfeasance levelled against him by the special investigator of his reign … Read more
Since the Central Bank of Nigeria came into full operation on July 1, 1959, the Director of Currency has always been male until August 30, 2018, when the energetic female banker Priscilla Ekwere Eleje broke that dominance. Eleje, a graduate of Psychology, became the first Nigerian female to become the Director of Currency at Nigeria’s … Read more
One of the cabinet members of President Muhammadu Buhari with an intimidating profile is the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Alhaji Muhammed Musa Bello, a cool-header Yola-man, yet a result-driven The former banker who underwent banking training at one of the most reputable financial institutions in the world could simply be described as the … Read more
The coup de tat in Guinea isn’t the first one where an employee would kick out their appointor. We saw it happen in Egypt, Chad, DRC, and on Sunday, September 5, 2021, a French-trained soldier Col Mamady Doumbouya kicked out his boss President Alpha Conde from Presidential Palace. Disclaimer: InfomediaNG Team is still monitoring the … Read more
On Wednesday, May 10, 2023, the former minister of power Sale Mamman was arrested and detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for allegedly embezzling NGN22 billion. The ex-minister is surrounded by many controversies even when he was in office between 2019 to 2021. Intro: The privileges that come with political posts in … Read more
Dynamic, proactive, and result-oriented are some of the few adjectives to describe Mohammad Abubakar, a holder of Ph.D. in Watersheds Management at the University of Arizona, Tucson in the United States of America. No one knew what the former chairman of the Universal Basic Education Commission had in his bag in terms of innovations until … Read more
One of the most controversial cabinet members in the second term of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari was Sabo Nanono, a former banker who was the Minister of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development until his sack on September 1, 2021 Unlike his predecessor who was always in the news by ditching … Read more
The world can never forget the year 2020 which some people prefer to call the “pandemic year” because of the agony that came with it, but the COVID-19 outbreak was a success story for some businesses around the world. To the founders of such businesses, they became richer. Forrest Li, the 2021 wealthiest man in … Read more
Back in 2021 when Forbes released a list of the richest cryptocurrency founders, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao popularly called CZ was valued at $1.9 billion by Forbes in August 2021, but in less than a year, CZ’s net worth rose to $96 billion in January 2022, according to a report by Bloomberg. CZ’s fortune has … Read more