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British businessman, Ken Olisa who was born to a Nigerian father and a British mother has been announced as the Most Influential Black Briton on the Powerlist 2016. The Powerlist is an annual list of the most powerful people of African and Caribbean heritage in Britain. The sixty-four year old businessman would receive the Powerlist 2016 award at a ceremony at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum this Monday night.  He is also the first black Briton to serve as a director at a FTSE 100 company with Thomson Reuters. Other names who made the list include comedian Lenny Henry who came in second place, Ofcom boss Sharon White, 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen, Formula One World champion Lewis Hamilton, double Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah, among others. The list is usually picked by a panel of independent judges and while speaking on this year’s list, Powerlist 2016 publisher Michael Eboda said: “I am delighted to salute the truly inspirational men and women in this year...

Ben Murray-Bruce has reacted to plans by some state governors to reduce the N18, 000 minimum wage being paid to civil servants. The Governors had last week said they were planning on reducing the minimum wage due to the downward turn of the economy and reduced Federal allocation. Sen. Ben Murray Bruce argues that the N18, 000 being paid is not even enough to maintain the dogs in the government house let alone human beings. See his tweets below… Read

U.S. billionaire, Robert F. Smith, businessman and the second richest African-American has pledged to pay for educational expenses of the girls who escaped from Boko Haram in Nigeria. The 21 girls have taken a risky step by going back to school and attending the American University of Nigeria (AUN). It has been 588 days since the school girls were abducted in April last year by Boko Haram terrorists who stormed their secondary school in the town of Chibok in Borno state, kidnapping 276 girls. The plight of the abducted girls and the fifty-seven who managed to escape appears to have been largely forgotten. Reports suggest that the girls who managed to escape have been left “traumatised and ostracised, they had then been largely left to their own devices, bar a handful sought out by aid workers”. Struck by the plight of the girls the founder, chairman and chief executive of Vista Equity Partners resolved to play his part. The billionaire pledged to “cover their expenses for as lo...