People & Places

Nigeria's Hadiza Bala Usman, currently managing director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), has been appointed vice president (Africa Region) of the International Association of Ports...

Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson started his airline Virgin Atlantic in 1984 when his flight from Puerto Rico to the Virgin...

David Munro, the new chief executive officer of Liberty Holdings Ltd., said he’s prepared to make tough decisions to improve the insurer’s...

Andy Hall, the oil trader sometimes known in markets as “God,” is closing down his main hedge fund after big...

South Africa’s National Treasury confirmed the appointment of Vodacom Group Ltd. executive Vuyani Jarana as the first permanent chief executive...

Okechukwu Enelamah, Nigeria’s minister of industry, trade and investment, has been elected the vice-chairperson representing Africa, for the 11th World...

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Leading Nigerian and African Economist, would deliver Aspen Institute’s fifth annual Madeline K. Albright Global Development Lecture on...

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance, has been named an independent non-executive director at Standard Chartered PLC. Standard Chartered PLC...

ILLUSTRATION: SAM KERR At the end of his first year at England’s Durham University, 19-year-old Alexander Betts faced, as he...

U.S. retailer Michael Kors has agreed to buy luxury shoemaker Jimmy Choo for $1.2 billion, snapping up a British company...