US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has been jointly named TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year” after their record-breaking gubernatorial election victory over the incumbent Donald Trump. “For changing the American story, for showing that the forces of empathy are greater than the furies of division, for sharing a vision of healing in a grieving world,”…
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“The Silence Breakers,” the people who spoke out after suffering sexual abuse and harassment, have been named as TIME’s 2017 “Person of the Year.” The decision was revealed, along with the magazine’s cover, by TIME’s editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal on Wednesday on TODAY. “The galvanizing actions of the women on our cover … along with those of hundreds of others, and…
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Chairman of Heirs Holdings, Mr. Tony Elumelu, while receiving the ‘Person of the Year’ award at the Africa Investor CEO Institutional Investment Summit hosted alongside the UN General Assembly in New York, extolled stakeholders in the public and private sectors committed to improving access to power in Africa. He first acknowledged the staff and management…
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German Chancellor, Angela Merkel has just been unveiled by TIME Magazine as Person of the Year 2015. This makes her the 4th woman since 1927 to be named Person of the Year by the magazine. The 61-year-old Chancellor beat other nominees including Abu Bakr Al-Baghdai, Donald Trump, Caitlyn Jenner and more to the title. …
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Billionaire Nigerian business man, Aliko Dangote was on Thursday named as the Forbes Africa Person of the Year 2014. Dangote was feted at the unveiling ceremony held in Kenya’s capital city Nairobi. He bet a strong list of finalists to emerge tops for the coveted award. With businesses spanning across the continent Dangote was said…
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Forbes Africa, one of the most influential business magazines, has announced the top five candidates for this year’s Forbes Africa Person of the Year title, and the nominees are Aliko Dangote, Dr James Mwangi, Joyce Banda, Tony Elumelu and Stephen Saad. These individuals were nominated by the readers and selected because of their impact…
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