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Below are the top 10 highest paid African footballers 2017 10. Seydou Keita Earning $1.4million Keita is currently the captain of the Malian national team. He played for FC Barcelona as a defender where he earned $4.2m annually. He signed a two-and-a-half-year deal in 2012 with Chinese side Dalian Aerbin FC in a contract worth €14 million per year. Returning to Spain, he signed with Valencia CF before signing a one-year contract with Italian club A.S. Roma in June 2014 in a deal worth €1 million. 9. Michael Essien Earning $2.9million He plays currently for AC Milan. Essien spent five years with Lyon in France and was one time the most expensive African player of all time when he signed a contract worth £24.4 million for Chelsea in 2005 According to sources, his contract with Milan ended in 2015 and he would have his salary cut in half. This will see Essien earning €2.5 million per season. 8. Steven Pienaar Earning $4.8million The South Africa born winger p...

1. Samuel Eto’o This Cameroonian football player plays for Turkish club Antalyaspor as a striker. The 35 year-old is the most successful and most decorated African player of all time. Samuel scored over 100 goals in five seasons with Barcelona; and is also the record holder in number of appearances by an African player in La Liga. The former Indomitable Lions captain was in fact once the highest-paid player in the world during his spell with Anzhi Makhachkala where he earned €20 million ($25 million) a year after taxes. Eto’o is now one of the richest footballer in the world. He is the richest footballer in Africa with a net worth of $95 million. 2. Didier Drogba He is the all-time top scorer and former captain of the Ivory Coast national football team. Drogba is best known for his career at Chelsea; for whom he has scored more goals than any other foreign player and is currently the club’s fourth highest goal scorer of all time. He has also been named Afr...

Kunle Elebute Partner & Head, Advisory Services – Lead Partner, Financial Services Industry Education and Qualifications BA Economics, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.        Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria  Advanced Management Programme, Lagos Business School  Accredited valuations specialist by the KPMG Global Valuations Committee Executive Member, KPMG Global Infrastructure and Projects Group, Africa Years of Experience 30 Years Relevant Experience Kunle Elebute is Partner and Head of Advisory Practice of KPMG Advisory Services, Nigeria.  He has been involved in advisory services for most of his working life. Kunle qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1986 and has extensive experience in the areas of accounting, auditing, information systems audit and due diligence services working in Nigeria and West Africa.  He was admitted as a Partner in 1996 and was made responsible for the privatisation and eme...

The story of Stephen Akintayo shatters the myth that one needs millions of naira to start a business. Once upon a time he sold pure water and pop corn to make ends meet while studying in the university. Today he is an entrepreneur, a motivational speaker, a life coach and mentor and an ICT professional earning as much as N50, 000 per hour for speaking engagements! In a chat with TS Weekend, Akintayo opened up on how he started his business while studying in the university with just a N1000 as a 300 Level student many years ago. “People who want to go into business say money is the problem and that is not true. Money has wings and it could fly. They can give you those millions you have been telling yourself would transform your business but beware, you could eventually get those millions and before you say Jackie Robinson, you could end up blowing it all and everything could go down the drain! I am talking from experience.” Recounting his journey into entrepreneurship, Ak...

1. Many consumer products are heavily regulated by the FDA and other health organizations/associations. How do you feel about that? 2. At PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc we always think of the consumer first. What are the top 3 ways that we can ensure consumer satisfaction? 3. In your opinion, what is the most innovative consumer product you have seen in the past 12 months? 4. What do you know about PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc and our work environment? 5. Of all the places that you could work, why do you want to join PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc? 6. The performance of consumer products relies greatly on advertising and marketing efforts. Do you have any experience with advertising, marketing, or market research? 7. At PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc we prefer to hire candidates who value post-secondary education. Do you have any post-secondary education or related training? 8. Despite more current trends, many consumer products have been tested on animals. What are your thoughts on this? 9. Sales performan...

Yomi’s Bio Yomi Olugbenro is a Tax Partner at Deloitte Nigeria. He is an alumnus of Manchester Business School and Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN).  He is a member of the Board of Taxation and Fiscal Policy Management Faculty of ICAN. He completed the qualifying examination of ICAN in 1997 as a year-three accounting undergraduate and has acquired extensive professional experience from banking, industry role as CFO of leading organisations and professional practice as auditor and tax advisor. Yomi has about 15 years of professional experience. More than half of this has been devoted to strategic professional tax practice, advising several international and locally strategic clients. He has led many strategic tax projects involving mergers and acquisitions (M&A), cross-border tax consulting, transfer pricing, tax audit and investigation support and other busin...

It is no longer new to university students and graduates that graduating with a minimum of second class upper (2-1) is one of the ways to getting good jobs in Nigeria and also outside the country. But the question is "What then happens to those with a second class lower (2-2), third class and pass?, Is it that there is no hope for them in the labour market? It is probably no. Finishing with less than a second class upper does not actually mean the end of life. If you are graduate with 2-2, or third class, you can still make it in the labour market than those who graduated with first class and second class upper. You do not have to be depressed over that, here is the secret or things you need to do to successfully get your dream job. 1.Exclude your Degree on your CV:  From experience, only very few conglomerates and multinational companies are very strict about their 2.1 requirement.  If you hoping to enter any organization on merit then I will advise you never ...