ENTREPRENEUR & NOTABLE PERSONALITIES

Picture a stack of import licenses for rice, iron, and edible oil, filed by a young trader in Lagos back in 1988 know as Abdul Samad Rabiu. That paperwork became…

In 1997, a former corporate lawyer paid $7.7 million for six gold mine shafts that AngloGold no longer wanted. He had no cash upfront. Instead, he agreed to repay the…

In December 1991, a young Nigerian businessman's oil company struck crude in the shallow waters off Ondo State. No indigenous Nigerian firm had done it before. That company was Consolidated…

In 2008, Femi Otedola watched oil prices crash from $146 to $34 a barrel. He had more than a million tons of diesel sitting on ships at sea. He later…

​Inside the high-stakes world of modern artificial intelligence, few leaders cross the line between engineering and human economics quite like James Manyika. He sits at the quiet center of global…

 In December 1999, tanks rolled through the tropical heat of Abidjan. Soldiers deposed President Henri Konan Bédié. Tidjane Thiam was serving as the Minister of Planning and Development at that…

How Vera Songwe Broke the Debt Bottleneck ​When sovereign bond yields skyrocketed across emerging economies during global market shocks, developing nations faced crippling capital costs. Traditional development finance offered slow…

The Day the Vouchers Arrived: The story of Akinwumi Adesina ​A sudden hush fell over the crowd in rural Kano, Nigeria. In 2012, corrupt middlemen had controlled the fertilizer market for…

A devastating robbery in Lagos left twelve-year-old Tope Awotona forever transformed. Armed carjackers shot his father right outside their family home. Yet, that terrible tragedy planted a seed of incredible…

A young man stood inside a dusty motorcycle workshop in Nnewi, Nigeria. Instead of giving up on his dreams, he studied every single mechanical component with fierce focus. Consequently, this…