In the 80s, rapper, E-40’s music catalog made him a household name. Although no longer active in the entertainment industry as he was in the 80s, Earl Stevens, as he is formally known, has reinvented himself as an entrepreneur. He has built a business empire that includes spirit brands “Goon With The Spoon,” “Earl Stevens Selections” and a restaurant. Prior to that, he was a brand ambassador for Landy Cognac to help with their visibility campaign in the United States. In 2013, he debuted his wine brand, Earl Stevens Selections, which he named after himself. The launch of the brand…
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The Board of Infinity Trust Mortgage Bank PIc has announced the confirmation of the appointment of Sunday Olumorin as its managing director. The confirmation, announced Friday, comes eight months after his appointment on 15 June 2022. In a disclosure published on the Nigerian Exchange Limited, the bank said Mr Olumorin succeeds the former managing director, Olabanjo Obaleye. The appointment is in line with the bank’s succession plan and was confirmed by CBN on 15 June 2022, it added. Before his appointment, Mr Olumorin was an executive director of the bank. Having held various senior executive roles with the bank, the…
“The National Disaster Management Centre has consequently classified the energy crisis and its impact as a disaster. We are therefore declaring a national state of disaster to respond to the electricity crisis and its effect. We will continue our just transition to a low carbon economy at a pace our country is able to keep up with and at a pace we can afford, and in manner that ensures energy security,” Ramaphosa announced in his annual State of the Nation Address to parliament.Ramaphosa said that the recurring power shortages posed a significant threat to the country’s economy and social fabric.…
On Tuesday, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released a report addressing the increase in violent extremism in sub-Saharan Africa, the main driversand ways to tackle it. The report, titled “Journey to Extremism in Africa: Pathways to Recruitment and Disengagement”, was based on a survey carried out with nearly 2,200 respondents—including over 1,000 former members of violent extremist groups such as Boko Haram, al-Shabaab and al-Qaeda-affiliated Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM). The report also featured some of their case studies, with names altered for safety reasons, and was an extension of the organisation’s research studies on the same subject…
Within the week, Chadian President Mahamat Déby traveled to Israel, where he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of formalities before the official unveiling of the central African nation’s embassy in the Jewish state. According to a spokesman of the Chadian president, Mr. Mahamat Déby was visiting Israel to open the embassy as the country continues to build on the diplomatic relations established five years ago between the two countries. In 2019, Netanyahu met with the former president of Chad, the late Idriss Deby Itno, Mahamat Deby’s father, where the pair announced the reestablishment of official diplomatic…
Africa investor (Ai) Group announced six COP27, investor-led initiatives today, during its NDC Investment Summit and Awards, co-hosted with The African Union Development Agency (AUDA), The Continental Business Network (CBN), The NDC Partnership, The African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank (AfGIIB), The ICC, and the IEA at COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh. The Ai NDC Investment Summit and Awards was graced by the participation of leading African dignitaries, Heads of State, Ministers, and global institutional investment leaders, representing over $60 trillion of assets under management. The Summit and awards opening and keynote speakers included Dr. Hubert Danso, Chairman of Africa investor…
South Africa’s rolling blackouts have ruined a hot summer for Soweto Creamery, a gourmet ice cream business in Johannesburg’s largest township praised by President Cyril Ramaphosa as a start-up forged in the pandemic.Despite high demand for sweet treats such as the Chocolate Overload and Caramel Canyon, owner Thando Makhubu has burnt cash running a generator for up to 10 hours a day. It is needed to replace the power lost when Eskom, the stricken electricity monopoly, cuts off swaths of demand to prevent a total grid collapse, a process known as load-shedding.“Our overheads have grown, we need to spend a…
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has declared the Senate is ready to approve the N23.7tn debt restructuring request made by the President, Major General, Muhammadu Buhari, (Retd.), in December last year. The senate also blamed the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, for stalling the approval of the request by delaying the provision of the necessary document containing details of the Ways and Means Advances. The lawmakers led by the Rivers West senator, Betty Apiafi, had vehemently opposed the passage of the ‘securitisation’ of the advances collected from the Central…
In much of the world the closure of independent media triggers an uproar. Not in Algeria. Only a handful of reporters attended a press conference on January 7th called by the lawyers of Ihsane el-Kadi, a journalist, after he was arrested and the radio station and website he owned were closed. Goons confiscated his journalists’ mobile phones and computers. “People are too shocked and scared by the arrest to publish it,” says Tin Hinane, his daughter, a respected Algerian analyst. “Algeria’s media have all been co-opted by the state or forced to shut down.” Listen to this story. Enjoy more…
Download logoSomalia remains on the frontline of climate change, which continues to induce crisis in the country, resulting in widespread displacement, conflict, and other recurrent climate shocks. Women and girls remain the most affected groups in the society. Despite opportunities for Women-Led Organizations (WLOs) in humanitarian actions being limited, they are among the frontline responders in humanitarian crises, leading efforts to deliver essential and lifesaving support to crisis-affected communities.UN Women in Somalia works closely with the Women Led Organizations and strengthens their capacity to meaningfully engage in gender in humanitarian response. The key focus of this support is to ensure…