Amy Khalaf asked this question in Quora: How could I make a million dollars before 30 years old? The most appropriate answer came from Tea Maksoud, a writer and a marketing graduate. I’ve studied over 40 millionaires and finally found out their secret to wealth. It took me a long time to piece together the Read More…
Year: 2021
#EndSARS panel submits report to government
The panel investigating shootings by the now disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit of the Nigeria Police in Lagos State, which sparked the worst civil unrest in the nation since the end of military rule submitted its findings to the government on Monday. However, the report was not immediately made public. Headed by Justice Dorcas Read More…
No smiles for Nigeria, developing countries, at COP26
The final agreement from the COP26 which just ended in Glasgow, Scotland, offers little promise for Nigeria and its fellow developing nations. Even then the two-week conference in Scotland delivered a major win in resolving the rules around carbon markets, just as it did little to assuage vulnerable countries’ concerns about long-promised climate financing from Read More…
[PHOTO] Akinwumi Adesina meets with Kamala Harris in Paris
They met on the sidelines of a three-day Paris Peace Forum, at a dinner at the Élysées, Paris. At the dinner hosted by French President, Emmanuel Macron on Nov. 11, the African Development Bank (AfDB) CEO, Akinwumi Adesina, had a chance tete-a-tete with US Vice President, Kamala Harris, during which they posed for a colourful Read More…
Broadcasters’ Hall of Fame inducts Dokpesi, Izamoje, Craig, others
A second set of broadcasting elite have been inducted into the Broadcasters Hall of Fame. The new batch of inductees to the Broadcasters Hall of Fame was released by the Broadcasters Guild of Nigeria, BGN. In a statement signed by the Chairman of the Guild, Ohi Ojo, the list includes two former Directors General of Read More…
Dear Carlene John
Yesterday, I cried. Today, the stream of tears continues to run down from my eyes and wet my shirt. Between the tears and cries, I cynically smiled as I gazed into this life, staring at nothing, but running through the beautiful memories we shared in my early American years. In 1989 was a six-month-old young Read More…
Maina And ‘Authority Stealing’
A thief is a thief whether he steals a golden crown or a cocoyam. The way we are now glamourising stealing and making celebrities of common felons, indicates that we are too far gone in our descent into amoralism. It wasn’t quite many decades ago when stealing was a shameful thing. There was something called Read More…
Third Mainland Bridge is safe, Federal Works Ministry insists
Ask public to discountenance circulating video as five-years old Many Lagosians have been scared lately by a circulating video of an old Channels TV news report on a faulty expansion joint at the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos. But the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing says the bridge is safe and the video is a Read More…
INEC declares Prof. Soludo winner in Anambra guber polls
Awka, Nov.10, 2021(NAN) The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Prof. Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) the winner of November 6 governorship election in Anambra. Soludo polled a total of 112,229 votes to defeat his closest rival, Mr Valentine Ozigbo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 53, 807 Read More…
[Pictures] Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai marries
LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Malala Yousafzai, the campaigner for girls’ education and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who survived being shot aged 15 by a Taliban gunman in her native Pakistan in 2012, has got married, she said on social media on Tuesday. The 24-year-old, who lives in Britain, said she and her new husband, Read More…