Tag: TIME magazine

Tinubu makes TIME magazine’s 2023 ‘100 most influential people’

Aminu Imam

President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been named in TIME magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People of 2023’, alongside the King of the United Kingdom, King Charles III; US President Joe Biden, amongst others. Others on the list included US Senator Mitch McConnell; Argentine footballer, Lionel Messi, Twitter CEO, Elon Musk, US actor, Michael B. Jordan; US singer, Beyonce; US actress, Angela Bassett, amongst others. Tinubu’s profile as given by TIME magazine read, “Winning an election in Africa’s most populous country is no easy feat. But Nigeria’s newly elected President Bola…

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TIME magazine names Nigerian music star, Davido, one of ‘most influential people worldwide’

Aminu Imam

Nigerian superstar, Davido, hit another milestone yesterday, as he was named one of the next “100 Most influential people in the world for 2021”, by the influential US-based Time magazine. It reads: “Davido is one of the biggest voices in Afrobeat because his music connects with people, often in ways that transcend his expectations”. When he released the song “FEM” in 2020, a title that loosely translates to “shut up” in Yoruba, he didn’t know it would become a major #EndSARS protest anthem. Davido, in his reaction, wrote on his social…

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