On Tuesday, the Oscars-awarding club opened its prestigious doors to a diverse crop of new members. Nigerian actress Genevieve Nnaji, Nigerian-British actress Cynthia Erivo and American Actress Eva Longoria are on the list of outstanding people who have been invited to join Hollywood’s Academy. In its efforts to increase female and ethnic minority membership, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts […]
Netflix has appointed Bozoma “Boz” Saint John to be its new Chief Marketing Officer. She leaves Endeavor, where she has served as CMO since 2018. Jackie Lee-Joe, who held the position, is leaving the company for personal reasons. She has been in Australia with her family since the start of the pandemic. “Bozoma Saint John […]
Nigerian fashion brand Desire1709 has debuted a new style edit for fashion enthusiasts as we ease out of the lockdown of the COVID-19 period . The pieces are versatile, with colors and patterns bringing in some colour to brighten our mood. The new collection shows an extensive look of work outfits, casual wear, blazer dresses […]
Nigerian-British designer Mowalola Ogunlesi has been announced as the design director of Kanye West’s new Yeezy and Gap collaborative venture. This announcement was made on Friday by Kanye and later on revealed by Mowalola through her Instagram, stating she is set to take on the role of design director for the project. Mowalola has dressed style icons like Solange Knowles and is […]
Ingressive Capital has doubled its investment vehicle to back high-growth, tech-enabled startups across Africa. They now operate a $10 Million USD fund. The investment fund aims to support the next generation of African innovators. They target pre-seed and seed-stage tech-enabled businesses in the B2B space that provide tech solutions to Africa’s traditional billion-dollar industries, as […]
Australia’s youngest billionaire almost doubled her personal wealth in months after her tech company’s popularity soared during the coronavirus pandemic. Melanie Perkins, originally from Perth, founded the Sydney-based digital graphics business Canva with her fiance Cliff Obrecht in 2014 after dropping out of university. The company expanded to Manila and Beijing in five years that […]
“As I think about this honor, i recognise that I am Black First, before i am African.” – Ada Osakwe Award-winning food entrepreneur, investor, passionate African development advocate and Kellog School of Management Alumni, Ada Osakwe delivered a virtual Commencement Speech to Class of 2020 at the Kellogg School of Management. “I was told I’m […]
Nigerian Business Executive and Daughter of the Chairman of Globacom, Bella Disu, celebrates Julius Berger Nigeria at 50. Disu who is also an arts enthusiast and philanthropist with over 14 years of professional experience across industries provides, strategic leadership as the Executive Vice-Chairman of Globacom, a foremost multinational telecommunications company operating in Nigeria and Ghana. […]
Temie Giwa Tubosun, founder of Life Bank Nigeria has been named the 2020 Laureate for Sub-Saharan Africa at the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards. She shared this news via her Twitter page expressing her excitement and gratitude and ending her post with a message for women in business, “Watch This Space”.. About The Cartier Women’s Initiative; […]
Kathy Lueders, The NASA official who oversaw the first SpaceX astronaut launch last month has been selected to lead all the agency’s human spaceflight efforts, including its goal to land astronauts on the moon by 2024. NASA chief Jim Bridenstine on Friday announced that Kathy Lueders was selected as the agency’s associate administrator of its […]