Payments network operator MasterCard Inc (MA.N) reported a 3.8 percent drop in quarterly profit, as operating expenses rose 8.5 percent.
Net income fell to $977 million, or 86 cents per share for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, from $1.02...
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc has held early talks with Botox-maker Allergan Plc to discuss what could be the biggest takeover deal this year, the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times reported.
Shares in Allergan jumped 11 percent in premarket trade...
Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) on Thursday reported a hefty $8.2 billion charge, equivalent to around 5 percent of its market value, due to write-offs on projects in the Alaskan Arctic and Canada as Europe's biggest oil producer grapples with...
SAN FRANCISCO, October 29, (THEWILL) – Senator Gyang Pwajok, 48, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau State in the April 11 2015 election, is dead.
Pwajok’s demise was confirmed by his campaign’s media team in...
SAN FRANCISCO, October 29, (THEWILL) – The Supreme Court has upheld the election of Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the April 11 2015 Governorship election.
Thursday’s apex court ruling followed the appeal...
Buyer: Reprobate Bukola Saraki
Price: Negotiable In The Billions
The judicial system in any country constitutes the bedrock of good governance. Sadly, the halo around the Nigerian judiciary has been dimmed due to malady of corruption plaguing the system.
Nigeria's judicial system...
President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration may have fallen prey to the political syndrome of sameness. In other words, his dispensation may well be firmly set to run on the same track as his predecessors’.
Five months into the Buhari Presidency, there...
“Good things come to those who wait, but only those things left by those who hustle.”- Abraham Lincoln.
Ambition is noble and should be pursued with vigour, but what is disastrous is over ambition because it defies decency, honesty, fairness,...
The acclaimed national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress was recently in Guinea where he was reportedly involved in influencing the outcome of the October 11 presidential election in favour of the 77 years old incumbent President Alpha...
She is the one who has been trending. She is Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita, the newly appointed Head of the Civil Service of the Federation. The exit of Mr Danladi Kifasi, the occupier of the exalted position few days ago...