Category: Proudly Nigerian
Shola Akinlade, Nigerian software engineer, buys Danish football club
Nigerian software engineer and co-founder of Paystack, Shola Akinlade, has purchased Danish second division club, Aarhus Fremad.
The 38-year-old bo [...]
Afe Babalola donates £10million to establish African learning centre at King’s College, London
Afe Babalola, founder of Afe Babalola University, has donated £10 million to establish a learning centre at King’s College, London.
The Afe Babalola [...]
Late Dora Akunyili’s daughter named US hospital’s chief medical director
Ijeoma, the daughter of late Professor Dora Akunyili, has been named the Chief Medical Officer of the Jersey City Medical Center, an RWJ Barnabas Heal [...]
Nigerian-born Amanda Azubuike promoted to Brigadier General in US army
A Nigerian woman Amanda Azubuike has been promoted from Lieutenant Colonel to Brigadier General of the United States Army at a milit [...]
Osahon Enabulele becomes first Nigerian, West African President of WMA
A former President of the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, Dr Osahon Enabulele has emerged as the first ever Nigerian and West African physician to b [...]
Chimamanda Adichie receives Harvard’s highest honour, W.E.B Du Bois Medal
Celebrated author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has received the highest honour of Harvard university, the W. E. B. Du Bois Medal.
She received the me [...]
Dangote bags Nigerien national Honour for his foundation’s health intervention
President/Chief Executive of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote has been conferred with the Commander of the Order of Merit of Niger award by t [...]
Nigerian Phoebe Dami-Asolo lands top job in Coca-Cola India
The Coca-Cola company in India, Southwest Asia has appointed Nigeria’s Phoebe Dami-Asolo as the Director of Operations.
This appointment makes Ms [...]
Nonso Okpala’s digital banking app, V bank set to metamorphose into a bank
43 year old Nonso Okpala, is proving through sheer dint of hardwork that youths can legitimately succeed in whatever endeavour they are in [...]
Meet Emmanuel Njoku, the 19-year-old disrupting the technological space with Lazerpay
With at least three in 10 geniuses among Nigerian youths, it isn't out of place to infer that our educational system and curriculum, particularly in p [...]