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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...

According to Sahara Reporters: The gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi state, Mr. Abubakar Audu is dead. Mr. Audu died of undisclosed medical reasons shortly after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared his victory at the elections inconclusive. Saharareporters could not determine the cause of Mr. Audu's death. This makes Abubakar Audu the first leading gubernatorial candidate in Nigeria's history to ever die on election day. Could this be true? 

According to the state commissioner of Police, Fatia Owoseni, Alam had been going around with his fraudulent act but ran out of luck when one of his alleged victims, identified as Hasimu Soli, who he was said to have obtained N15,000 from under false pretence that he was going to marry him. Subsequently, he escaped only for Soli to sight him at the CMS area of Lagos on November 15 and a quarrel ensued, leading to the police from the Lion Building Police station to arrest the two men. CP Owoseni narrated:  “On Sunday, November 15, at CMS , Lagos, a patrol team attached to the Lion Building Police Division arrested the suspect, who went about bearing a woman’s name, Kadijat, and dressed in Muslim hijab. The  suspect met one Hassimu of No. 25, Iyana Street, Ajegunle and agreed to a relationship and had falsely obtained N15,000 from Mr. Soli under the guise of marrying him. Mr. Soli had wanted to take Kadijat (suspect) home, but he  refused, giving various excuses. ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the governorship election of Kogi state inconclusive. Emmanuel Kucha, the returning officer of the election, announced the development at the INEC headquarters in the state, saying the margin between the two leading candidates is less than the number of the cancelled votes. Kucha gave the number of cancelled votes as 49,953 and the margin between Abubakar Audu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Idris Wada, the incumbent governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP), as 41,353. Audu secured 240,867 votes ahead of Idris, who had 199,514 votes.

There was pandemonium on Saturday at Bridge Head, Onitsha when a female police officer, identified as Inspector Tochukwu was allegedly abused, molested and almost stripped naked by a famous wealthy man. The much dreaded man, Ngozi Okpagu had also allegedly slapped a commissioner of police last year. An eye witness who gave his name as Tunde alleged that Offoegbu was on duty when the ‘big man’, who owns a park in Onitsha approached her threatening to facilitate her removal from Onitsha as he did to one Archibong. “At that point, the female police officer demanded from him what she did that would warrant her removal and in reply he slapped  her for daring him. His boys also joined and immediately they tore the female officer’s uniform, almost revealing her nakedness. “She ran for her life into the police post to avoid the peering eyes of the public. The Area Commander, Benjamin Wordu asked all of them to come to the area police station Onitsha. “That man cannot be arrested becau...