Notable People

Helen Ukpabio is the founder and executive director of the African Evangelical Franchise Liberty Foundation Gospel Ministries, headquartered in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. She is often accused of harassing, torturing, and instigating actions that led to the deaths of some children accused of witchcraft which is the major bone of contention even with his followers. … Read more

Bitcoin is one cryptocurrency with a lot of story surrounding it. One such story is deciphering the first recipient of the famous cryptocurrency and that person is Harold Thomas Finney II popularly called Hal Finney, a computer scientist, and an American developer. It remains a mirage how Finney got to be the first person to … Read more

It is impressive to see women starring the wheels of success and most importantly serving as pioneers of new ideas. Today, one of such notable women is Femi Oyedipe, an amazing young talented woman who is making a giant stride in her home country Nigeria through her unique business choice, making of world-class chocolate known … Read more

Accumulating wealth is about taking risks, and risk-taking means more wealth. This is the story of American investor Bill Miller who recently moved 50 per cent of his personal wealth into bitcoin investing. Interestingly, while most individuals, corporations and countries are still in doubt of bitcoin, the business mogul who considers himself the “Bitcoin Bull” … Read more

While the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) believes that cryptocurrency should be restricted because of the risks involved in its trading, Clem Ikanade Agba, Nigeria’s Minister of State, Budget and National Planning, says that Nigeria should look beyond the risk in crypto assets, stating that apex bank should put in place regulations to control it … Read more

With the latest Forbes magazine net worth of Alhaji Aliko Dangote valued at $10.8 billion, the 10 time Africa’s richest Nigerian has been displaced by a South African billionaire Johann Rupert to the second position in the Africa’s richest list. Before the latest update of Dangote’s net worth, he was richer than the combined Gross … Read more

Unlike today when a local government chairman can buy property in Dubai, UK, and anywhere he chooses to, it wasn’t like that in the 60s and 70s, the story was different in the 1970s And according to Ebun Oyagbola, Nigeria’s first female minister, public service was purely for service to humanity and “your community. Full … Read more

For someone like me who has been following the practical economic track records of Charles Soludo, the Governor of the industrial state of Anambra, I can’t express how happy I was when he clinched his party ticket and rode to win the Saturday, November 9, 2021 guber election. He assumed office as Anambra State governor … Read more

Until the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) released a public statement Wednesday, October 27, 2021, that it would be auctioning some properties linked to Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum Resources, most people never knew there was a lady’s bra as expensive as $12.5 million. For your information….$12.5million is NGN7,000,000,000 at the parallel market at … Read more

On October 2, 2023, Diezani Alison-Madueke, appeared before the Westminster Magistrates Court in the United Kingdom over an alleged £100,000 bribe. Her latest trial in far away UK since 2015 means that Nigeria’s anti-graft agency – EFCC – still has its eyes on her for extradition to face corruption charges back home. Takeaways: This article … Read more