Taiwo Awoniyi has added another qualification to a football career that is still being written on the pitch. The Nigeria and Coventry City striker has graduated from the PFA Business School with a Postgraduate Diploma in Global Football Sport Directorship, earning the qualification with Merit. Awoniyi announced the achievement on Tuesday, sharing his graduation as a significant moment away […]
Farewell Olu Jacobs: The Man Whose Face, Voice and Presence Became Part of Our Memories
Some actors appear in films. Others become part of the memory of the people watching them. Olu Jacobs belonged to the second group. For generations of Nigerians and African audiences, his face could signal authority before he had said a word, his voice could turn an ordinary line into something weightier, and his presence could change the temperature of […]
Jay-Z Celebrates 30 Years of Hits at the Stade de France
Thirty years after Reasonable Doubt introduced Shawn Carter to the world as Jay-Z, the rapper stood beneath the lights of the Stade de France with something few artists can convincingly claim: a catalogue that has become part of the architecture of popular culture. On September 10, 2026, Jay-Z brought his JAŸ-Z 30 celebration to Paris for a two-hour performance […]
Collen Kebinatshipi: Botswana’s 22-Year-Old World Champion Becomes the Fifth-Fastest 400m Runner in History
At 43.39 seconds, there was barely enough time for the crowd in Budapest to process what Collen Kebinatshipi had done. The 22-year-old Botswana sprinter had just won the inaugural men’s 400m title at the World Athletics Ultimate Championship, lowered his own national record and moved into a rarefied section of athletics history. Only four men have ever run the […]
How Entrepreneur Timi Oke Turned Nigerian Superfood into a Global Export Business
Long before hibiscus became a fashionable ingredient on global wellness menus, Nigerians knew it as zobo. For Timi Oke, however, the deep-red flower represented something more consequential: a commodity with a market beyond Nigeria’s borders. While working in banking in the UK, Oke spent his spare time studying agricultural products that could be traded internationally. In 2012, that curiosity […]
Career Spectrum: Six Different Ways Footballers Reach Their Peak
Some arrive early. Some need time. Some peak late. And a rare few seem to have several primes. There is a tendency to talk about sporting careers as though they follow a predictable timetable. A young player breaks through, improves through his early twenties, reaches his prime somewhere around his mid-to-late twenties, then gradually declines as age catches up […]
Nigerian-Born Ibironke Odumosu-Ayanu Appointed Canada University Dean
A Nigerian-born legal scholar is taking the helm of one of Canada’s established law schools. Dr. Ibironke Odumosu-Ayanu has been appointed dean of the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan, beginning a five-year term on October 1, 2026. She succeeds Martin Phillipson, who completed two five-year terms as dean. For Odumosu-Ayanu, the appointment represents the latest step […]
16-year-old Nigerian Talent Belusochim Ugochukwu Joins Apple to Work on AI and Robotics
At 16, Belusochim Ugochukwu is already working at Apple on machine learning, computer vision and robotics research. For a Nigerian teenager to arrive at one of the world’s most influential technology companies at an age when most of his peers are still making decisions about their first degree is remarkable. But Ugochukwu’s story becomes more compelling when the achievement […]
August 26, 1918: Katherine Johnson, the Black Mathematician Who Helped Send America to Space
Before astronauts became household names and before computers could calculate a trajectory in seconds, there were mathematicians whose work had to be precise enough to bring a spacecraft home. Katherine Johnson was one of them. Born on August 26, 1918, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, she grew up with an extraordinary instinct for numbers and became one of […]
“Don’t Call Me Tony” – To Be or Not to Be: The Culture of Corporate Respect on Nigeria’s Social Media Trial
So, in a now-viral video, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Group Chairman was seen addressing his employees when a graduate trainee of the UBA Banking School stood up to ask a question, referring to him as “Tony.” Tony Elumelu stopped her. It took only a few seconds, but those seconds have opened up a much bigger conversation about how […]
