Nigerian-born Finance Executive, Prof. Dr. Akolisa Ufodike has been appointed as Canada's Deputy Minister at Alberta’s Ministry of Trade, Immigration and Multiculturalism

Nigerian-born Finance Executive, Prof. Dr. Akolisa Ufodike has been appointed as Canada's Deputy Minister at Alberta’s Ministry of Trade, Immigration and Multiculturalism. (Read More Here).

He is a Director of Nigerian oil and gas company, Kainji Resources.

In another news, Chimamanda Adichie will deliver the landmark first BBC Reith Lecture for 2022.

Previous Reith Lecturers include Nobel Laureates Aung Sung Su Kyi, Bertrand Russell & Prof Wole Soyinka. She joins Soyinka as one of only 2 Nigerians to deliver Reith Lectures since inception in 1948.