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CNN Celebrates Africa’s 3 Top Innovative Waste-to-Wealth Managers
The new edition of the Globacom-sponsored CNN African Voices Changemakers, a 30-minute magazine programme, celebrates three top innovative Africans, who are into waste-to-wealth ventures with a view to rescuing the continent’s ecosystem from further degradation.
The first of the environment health triumvirate is Bilikiss Adebiyi Abiola, 36, a Nigerian Chief Executive Officer of a recycling company in Lagos.
Abiola began her tertiary education at the University of Lagos from where she relocated to the United States of America after the first year, to continue her education at the Fisk University.
She later proceeded to Vanderbilt University, where she bagged a Master’s degree. She was in the employ of IBM for five years and was subsequently granted an admission for a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
At MIT, she picked Waste Management as her course, which gave the inspiration to delve into recycling, a novel approach, by offering incentives for waste by the city dwellers.
Later on, Abiola took her ingenuity in waste management to her city of birth, Lagos, Nigeria, where on a daily basis, the residents generate 9,000 metric tons of waste. By the year 2012, she co-founded a company called WeCyclers, which collects recyclable rubbish from households within the city. The company has given sustenance to at least 80 staff members that use tricycles to gather waste.
Her efforts in the venture have received numerous mentions in the media not only in Nigeria but in the United Kingdom, America and Germany, and she has been awarded grants from her alma mater, MIT, to further her research in waste management. She equally won the Cartier Women’s Initiative Award for sub-Saharan Africa in 2013. Most importantly, her continuous efforts at waste management are contributing to making the environment cleaner.
Abiola will be joined on the programme by two Liberians, Abraham Freeman and Baccus Roberts, who co-founded the Monrovia-based Environmental Rescue Initiative (ERI).
The duo will use the programme to tell viewers how they are using their efforts to challenge all Liberians, in particular, and the citizens of all nations in general, to take up the challenge of ridding the environment of waste and innovatively generating revenue from the same source.
Freeman and Roberts, using their company, ERI, remove trash from the streets of Monrovia by using plastic components generated from the mountains of waste to fabricate paver bricks for construction.
From each brick from the primary refuse dump, where the ERI factory is located, removes more than 666 plastics from the environment. The feat has been adjudged to be stronger than other bricks made from conventional materials.
The latest edition of, CNN African Voices Changemakers was aired on DSTV on Friday at 8.30 a.m. with repeat broadcast on Saturday at 11.30 p.m., 4.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. Other repeat broadcasts come up on Sunday at 4.00 a.m., 8.30 a.m. and 7.30 p.m. with more repeats on Monday and Tuesday at 4.30 a.m. and 65.30 p.m. respectively.
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Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) has announced the postponement of its maiden annual Public Relations, Reputation, Ideas, Concepts and Excellence (PRICE) Awards and Prizes to January 25, 2026.
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The event, earlier scheduled for December 7, 2025, was deferred to accommodate stakeholders whose observance of Christmas festivities had commenced earlier than expected.
Chairman of the Organising Committee, Mr. Israel Opayemi, urged stakeholders to note the new date and prepare to participate in the ceremony.
He said the awards would motivate professionals, practitioners and scholars, while enhancing Nigeria’s global competitiveness in the public relations ecosystem and strengthening brand equity for all stakeholders.
Opayemi reaffirmed the Committee’s commitment to delivering a best-in-class award administration and ceremony, describing the PRICE Awards as a credible and enduring platform to identify, celebrate and elevate outstanding individuals, campaigns and organisations shaping the public relations landscape across sectors.
The development of the PRICE Awards peaked in September 2025 when the NIPR President and Chairman, Council, Dr. Ike Neliaku, inaugurated a 12-man committee to organise the maiden edition. The inauguration followed the Council’s adoption of the report of a technical team tasked with establishing the awards.
Netflix has announced a landmark agreement to acquire Warner Bros. and HBO Max in a transaction valued at $82.7 billion, a move analysts say will reshape the global entertainment industry.
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The deal, which includes Warner Bros.’ film and television studios, HBO, HBO Max, and Warner Bros. Games, was unanimously approved by the boards of both companies. Under the terms, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) shareholders will receive $23.25 in cash and $4.50 in Netflix shares for each WBD share.
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos described the acquisition as “a defining moment” for the streaming giant, noting that the company intends to maintain Warner Bros.’ current operations while expanding its production capacity.
“By combining Warner Bros.’ incredible library of shows and movies with Netflix’s culture-defining titles, we can give audiences more of what they love and help define the next century of storytelling,” Sarandos said.
The transaction is expected to close within 12 to 18 months, following the planned spin-off of WBD’s TV networks division, Discovery Global, in 2026. Netflix projects annual cost savings of $2–3 billion by the third year after completion and expects the deal to be accretive to earnings per share by year two.
Industry groups, including the Directors Guild of America and Cinema United, have raised concerns about the impact on movie theaters, while regulators are expected to scrutinize the deal over antitrust issues. Netflix has pledged to continue supporting theatrical releases, with Warner Bros.’ cinema commitments running through 2029.
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav hailed the agreement, saying it “combines two of the greatest storytelling companies in the world to bring to even more people the entertainment they love.”
Observers note that the acquisition comes 15 years after former Time Warner chief Jeff Bewkes dismissed Netflix as “the Albanian army,” underscoring the dramatic shift in the entertainment landscape.
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