Monthly Archives: March 2015
Departing Pru chief exec Tidjane Thiam earned £11.9m in 2014
French-Ivorian businessman Tidjane Thiam, who in 2009 became the first Black African to head up a FTSE100 company and three weeks ago announced he...
Lupita back in East Africa for film about chess prodigy
Following the excitement generated by a film about a ‘king of Scotland’, Uganda is bracing itself for the production of a new movie about...
Nigeria’s Elections: Uncertainties and Anxieties of a Vital Process
After a false start in February, Nigeria’s presidential and national assembly elections will take place on 28 March. They were postponed from the original date of 14 February...
Nigeria 0-1 Uganda: Super Eagles Suffer Defeat Against Cranes
Nigeria’s Super Eagles were dealt an embarrassing defeat against the Cranes of Uganda in an international friendly at the Akwa Ibom International Stadium, Uyo...
Racist attacker jailed for killing teenager
A 42 year old man who murdered a 17 year-old teenager in a race related attack, has been sentenced to 22 years in jail.
Lee...
Life sentence for brutal Brixton killer
A man who killed his estranged wife and stabbed two other another women who were “nagging” and “disrespecting” him, has been sentenced to life...
Japan crowns first mixed-race beauty queens
For the first time ever, Japan has crowned a woman of colour at its national Beauty queen.
20 year-old Ariana Miyamoto, who is half black...
Met Police ordered to pay £400,000 to tasered black man
The Metropolitan Police have been ordered by a judge to pay over £400,000, to an innocent black businessman, who they constantly stopped in his...
Nigerian businessman funds 1,000 African entrepreneurs
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has announced the selection of its first 1,000 African entrepreneurs for the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP).
TEEP is a...
Get economics and you’ll get immigration
Study shows attitudes improve with financial literacy
A survey has found that “financially literate” people are the more likely to see immigration as positive than...
