It's the end of an internet era as Sergei Brin and Larry Page are stepping down as head of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and ceding management control to Sundar Pichai who will take over as CEO. Page and Sergey Brin, who co-founded Google more than two decades ago while graduate students at Stanford University, will[...]
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Senegalese-American singing star Akon has warned against celebrity-endorsed cryptocurrency – as he prepares to launch his own branded Akoin to the world. Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather is just one celebrity to have been caught up in a cryptocurrency controversy in recent years for his work with Centra, which claimed to have partnerships with Visa and[...]
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In 1989, a couple from Long Island, New York paid roughly $100 for an unclaimed storage unit. It was a blind auction, meaning neither they nor the seller had any idea what was inside. When the couple opened the unit, they were in for what would likely be the surprise of their lives: Buried under[...]
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More than 28,000 fake luxury items worth $257 million and destined for sale in Dubai have reportedly been seized by police from China and the UAE. Fifty-seven suspects were arrested, 37 of them in China, while UAE police also raided 10 locations in Dubai and seized 21,000 fake luxury items, the Xinhua News Agency reported.[...]
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Nelly Agbogu founder and foremost entrepreneurship guru behind the Naija Brand chick brand is hosting a trade fair and master class this weekend 7th December, 2019 at the Edmunds Centre( former Dabras hotel) Wuse2 Abuja. She has achieved repeated success with this venture in Lagos. And vendors have always given testimony of eye popping sales[...]
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Kim Kardashian is reportedly on course to become the next billionaire in her family, thanks to the success of her her SKIMS Solutionwear brand. The 39-year-old beauty's projected success will put her side-by-side with her baby sister Kylie Jenner, 22, who earlier this year was named by Forbes as the world's youngest self-made billionaire amid the[...]
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On Friday, the United States department of justice announced that Allen Onyema, chief executive officer of Air Peace, one of the leading airlines in Nigeria, had been indicted for money laundering. The US authorities, which have reportedly issued warrant for Onyema’s arrest, said he used several fraudulent letters of credit to American banks and initiated wire[...]
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Allen Ifechukwu Athan Onyema, the Chairman, CEO, and founder of Air Peace, a Nigerian airline, has been charged with bank fraud and money laundering for moving more than $20 million from Nigeria through United States bank accounts in a scheme involving false documents based on the purchase of airplanes. The international airline’s Chief of Administration[...]
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Dubai's flagship carrier Emirates Airline finalized a deal to purchase 30 of Boeing's 787-9 Dreamliner jets, executives of both companies announced Wednesday at the Dubai Air Show. The order is crucial for the American manufacturing giant, whose sales have been badly hit following two catastrophic crashes of its popular 737 Max jet in less than[...]
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Aramco finally announced concrete plans for an IPO on November 3, nearly four years after the idea was originally suggested by Crown Prince Mohammed. It was aimed at raising capital to diversify the Saudi economy away from oil as part of his 2030 vision. The net income earned last year by Saudi Aramco was nearly[...]
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Tony Elumelu Nigeria born billionaire and philanthropist attended a summit on Peace and security in Dakar Senegal. Read excerpts from his powerful speech...
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Austin Avuru, Seplat Petroleum's Chief Executive Officer is retiring next year, 2020. Avuru, 59, has served as Seplat’s CEO for seven years, and is stepping down from the role at the end of the decade. Okon, a 1991 Petroleum Engineering graduate of the University of Benin, has over 26 years of experience in the E&P sector[...]
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Kylie Jenner has become a confirmed billionaire at the tender age of 22 after selling the majority stake in her cosmetics brand for $600 million. Beauty product giant Coty Inc. announced on Monday it was buying a 51 percent stake in Jenner's make-up and skincare empire. The 22-year-old reality-star-turned-beauty-mogul will still solely own the other[...]
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Google has just announced that it’s buying wearable company Fitbit for $2.1 billion. In a blog post announcing the news, Google SVP of devices and services Rick Osterloh said that the Fitbit purchase is “an opportunity to invest even more in Wear OS as well as introduce Made by Google wearable devices into the market. Even with[...]
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Billionaire blogger and media mogul Linda Ikeji is currently attending a bloggers conference in Ghana. While visiting the University of Wisconsin International University in Ghana, she was asked several questions. One of the questions she was asked led to her revealing the reason she bought her famous Banana Island mansion. She said after rats chased[...]
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Europe's biggest bank HSBC has lost 11%in share value. Contributing factors include the Brexit uncertainty, Eurozone fragile economy and recovery, trade wars and global tensions amidst political upheavals. The bank is planning a radical overhaul of processes.
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Revealed: Amazon responsible for 30% of US retail bankruptcy and job loss – US Presidential Aspirant
Yang, a former lawyer who became wealthy as an entrepreneur, is a presidential hopeful in the race for the whiteHouse. He has has made the threat of automation one of the centerpieces of his 2020 campaign. A big part of his platform centers on the "freedom dividend," a $1,000 monthly paycheck that would go to every[...]
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Billionaire blogger and media mogul Linda Ikeji held a destination birthday party yesterday in Dubai in honor of her son Jayce Jeremi who just turned 1. The party was attended by all her friends and family who she personally flew to Dubai for the event. Other celebrities at the event include popular Instagram sensation HushPuppi[...]
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Drone attacks on key Saudi oil facilities have halved crude output from OPEC's biggest exporter, catapulting oil prices by the largest amount since the first Gulf War. The crisis has focused minds on unrest in the crude-rich Middle East, with Tehran denying Washington's charge that it was responsible. Brent oil prices leapt 20 percent on[...]
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