By Eric Nnaji [update] FILE PHOTO: Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen on the field before Super Bowl XLVIII against the Denver Broncos at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S., February 2, 2014. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas/File Photo. Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen, the man who persuaded school-friend Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard to start what became the world’s biggest software company, died on Monday at the age of 65, his family said. Allen left Microsoft in 1983, before the company became a corporate juggernaut, following a dispute with Gates, but his share of their original partnership allowed him to spend the rest of his life and billions of dollars on yachts, art, rock music, sports teams, brain research and real estate. Allen died from complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of cancer, the Allen family said in a statement. In early October, Allen had revealed he was being treated for the non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, ...
By Raj Kumar // 19 April 2018 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former finance minister of Nigeria. Photo by: Overseas Development Institute / CC BY-NC WASHINGTON — Picture this: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, at the time serving her second stint as Nigeria’s finance minister and sitting before President Goodluck Jonathan in his stately office, had just poured cold water on a foreign investment deal that sounded promising but could lead to Nigeria holding the bag — and around $2 billion in debt — if the project didn’t work out. As she reflects on that moment from 2014 in her just-released memoir “Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous: The Story Behind the Headlines,” the prominent global development leader recalls, “The presidential adviser had the 'I told you so' look, as though he was thinking, once you get this woman involved, then this won’t work." The glittering facts about Okonjo-Iweala are widely known in global circles. She is a former managing directo...