It is always commendable to see a top finance professional experienced in negotiation, financial markets, treasury management, business development and team building that is also passionate about gender diversity and personal finance matters. Our Woman Crush Wednesday, Ola (Oler) Oladele is definitely doing what she knows how to do best and making positive impacts in that regard. Ola is an accounting graduate of the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and has over 12 years experience in finance. She is currently the Senior Vice President, Global market at Parthian Partners Ltd, a fixed income brokerage firm in Nigeria. She is also a CFA…
Author: Pride Team
Dear Dorothy, Trust you are doing well. I have an issue. Ever since I started dating this particular guy, he asks me what am I bringing to the table. This is because I told him he would need to show more commitment so we get married. When I told him I have the ‘hottest body’, he said that was that all. According to him, he sees hot bodies every day and mine was not special. What do you think I can use to keep him committed? Regards, Aurora Dear Aurora, Thanks for the pleasantries. I trust you are doing…
Burna Boy‘s mother, Bose Ogulu has been named one of the ‘International Power Players’ for 2021 by Billboard. The artist manager secure d this great feat on April 26, 2021. Bose Ogulu no doubt has been an active player in her son’s musical career. She is said to be the Executive Producer for Burna Boy’s Grammy-winning album, Twice As Tall. Billboard eulogized her efforts writing: “Amid the pandemic, Ogulu co-executive-produced, released and promoted the Twice As Tall album from Nigeria’s breakout global star Burna Boy (aka her son, Damini Ogulu). He is signed to Bad Habit/Atlantic in the United States…
A Nigerian, Raufikat Oyawoye made history in faraway Canada after she beat nine other bakers to emerge winner of the ‘Great Canadian Baking Show’ Season 4. She becomes the first Nigerian to win the competition since the contest inception in 2017. The Great Canadian Baking Show kicked off its season 4 on February 14, 2021, and Raufikat was crowned the winner on April 4, 2021, after 8 weeks of competition. In a touching ceremony that reunited the finalists with fellow bakers from earlier in the season, hosts Ann Pornel and Alan Shane announced Raufikat as the winner. “Raufikat totally deserved…
Nollywood actress, Iyabo Ojo has called out her colleagues for taking sides with Baba Ijesha, who was apprehended by the police for sexual abuse. You recall that the actor was caught on camera defiling a 14-year-old girl. Reports also revealed the 48-year-old had been defiling the girl since she was 7. She took to Instagram on Sunday to share her thoughts in an almost six-minute-long video. “We all heard what happened to Baba Ijesha and the rape issue and since yesterday, I have been seeing a lot of people posting his pictures, with some saying he was framed and others…
Business mogul, Elon Musk admits ‘a bunch of people will probably die’ during SpaceX’s initial voyages to Mars. However, he insisted it will be a ‘glorious adventure and amazing experience’. The SpaceX founder was speaking with Peter Diamandis, founder of the X Prize Foundation when he made the stark prediction according to a report by DailyMail. Musk has already said he hopes to get humans on Mars by 2026, seven years before NASA aims to land astronauts on the Red Planet. On Thursday, Musk warned: Going to Mars reads like that advert for Shackleton going to the Antarctic. You know…
Canadian singer, Justin Bieber has been accused of cultural appropriation after he shared pictures of himself rocking dreadlocks. Last Sunday, the ‘Sorry’ crooner premiered the controversial hairdo on his Instagram page with a poolside snap with his wife Hailey. The next day, Justin shared another photo of himself in a checkered shirt and a pink pearl necklace. Bieber had previously been under fire for sporting dreadlocks at the iHeartRadio Music Awards in 2016. Shortly after, he shaved his hair down to remove the dreads, but not without issuing a statement. Many black people consider it a form of cultural appropriation…
This year, the Academy Awards took a different twist. The red carpet was hemmed, and the after-parties were cut. The ceremony was held almost two months later than usual, at an in-person event split between the Dolby Theater in Hollywood and Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. It was an unusual setup in an unusual year, where many of the films were released while movie theaters were largely closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Below are the winners at the 2021 Oscars: Road movie “Nomadland” was the big winner of the night, with prizes for best picture, best director and…
Do you know that a pair of Nike Air Yeezy 1s worn by rapper Kanye West sold for $1.8 million, triple the previous record for sneakers, Sotheby’s said Monday? The shoes beat the record held by a pair of Nike Air Jordan 1s which sold for $615,000 in August 2020 at a Christie’s auction. The sale marks the highest publicly recorded price for a sneaker sale ever,” Sotheby’s said in a statement. Sotheby’s said it also marks the first pair of sneakers to top $1 million. The black high-top Yeezys were worn by West during the 2008 Grammy Awards as he…
History would remember Chloe Zhao for becoming the first woman of colour and first woman of Asian descent to win an Oscar’s Best Director award at the 93rd annual Academy Awards on Sunday. The “Nomadland” director is also only the second woman to win the award. The first was Kathryn Bigelow, who won for “Hurt Locker.” In her acceptance speech, she said: “This is for anyone who has the faith and the courage to hold out to the goodness in themselves and to hold out to the goodness in each other, no matter how difficult it is to do that,”. “You…