African Leadership Magazine Blog

Africa’s much-loved reality show, Big Brother Naija (BBNaija), is about to hit the screen again for its fifth season. According to the organisers of the show, Multichoice, the show will premiere in July 2020. In a statement by Multichoice, the Chief Executive Officer of MultiChoice Nigeria, John Ugbe said, “Big Brother Naija has been widely regarded as one of Africa’s biggest entertainment exports,...

The winner of Big Brother Naija season 4, Mercy Eke has officially announced the launching of her own real estate company, Lambo Homes. Mercy recently took to her Instagram handle to announce to her fans and other social media users. In her post, she revealed that she had nursed the dream of owning a real estate company in Nigeria and...

Watford Football Club, an English professional football club in Watford, Hertfordshire, now has three confirmed cases of one player and two staff that tested positive to the coronavirus test making a total of six positive confirmed cases across the Premier League.  Premier League players and staff recently underwent coronavirus testing at their bases before returning to training, and six positive...

Africa has the world’s fastest-growing beer market. The USD 13 Bn industry is buoyed by urbanization, a growing young population and the expansion of the continent’s middle class. According to sector analysis, the African beer market will grow at a 5 percent rate until 2020, compared to 3 percent in Asia and 1 percent in Europe. It will have a...

With Sotheby’s record-breaking online auction of Cartier Tutti Frutti leading the way, expectations are high for the upcoming sale of Roy Lichtenstein’s White Brushstroke. Following the pandemic and the weakened economic sentiment, auction houses have turned exclusively to online auctions. The initial estimate was that we weren’t likely to see any records being broken until late April 2020. A bracelet from Cartier’s...