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Music producer, rapper, and fashion mogul Kanye West is the richest African American in the United States. Bloomberg reports that West is officially worth $6.6 billion, making him the richest Black man in America’s history. Around the same time last year, West became a certified billionaire with the help of his successful...

Shoprite Group has announced this in its unaudited results for the 26 weeks to 27 December 2020 in which sale of merchandise increased by 4.7% to R83.4 billion while its trading profit increased by 18.3% to R4.7 billion. The Group confirms that the terms of sale have been concluded for...

Nigeria’s unemployment rate hit a new record high at 33.3 per cent in fourth quarter (Q4) 2020 from 27.1 recorded in second quarter (Q2) 2020. According to Q4 unemployment report released by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday, a total of 23.18 million persons in Nigeria either did...

My father told me when I was around, the day He took me to the river sat me down to pray Right there in the water to the sound of pain From the mud he fashioned me a crown of clay It’s why no one can ever take this sound...

THE Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Thursday, launched a new enrolment portal for the N-Power Batch C program. The new enrolment portal, under the National Social Investment Management System, NASIMS, according to the ministry, was designed “to ensure transparency, institutional memory and dynamic impact assessment of...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Wednesday staged a nationwide protest over proposed amendments to the minimum wage for Nigerian workers.  This protest which is being coordinated from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, is said to be holding following attempts by some lawmakers at the National Assembly to remove...

The Federal Government, through the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, has budgeted the sum of N10.6bn to transport COVID-19 vaccine to the 36 states and the 774 local government areas as well as the Federal Capital Territory and the six area councils. Also, about N1.4bn was set aside for...

Israel Adesanya vs Jan Blachowicz - The UFC middleweight champ  (and mega-star in-waiting) Israel Adesanya moves up a weight class to become the UFC's latest "champ-champ." He faces off against the recently crowned UFC light heavyweight champ Jan Blachowicz. Blachowicz is a monstrous hitter and Adesanya might be the best...