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Obama In Ethiopia On Africa Tour To Boost Security, Other Ties

Barack Obama met the Ethiopian prime minister on Monday on the first visit by a serving U.S. president to a nation with one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa but which has often been criticized for its rights record. Talks...

U.S. Would Show Flexibility In Nuclear Talks With North Korea: Envoy

The recent nuclear deal with Iran showed that the United States can be flexible with a willing counterpart, including North Korea if it decides it wants talks on its nuclear program, a U.S. envoy said on Monday. North Korea has...

At Least 13 Dead In Al Shabaab Attack On Somali Hotel

The Somali militant Islamist group al Shabaab attacked a Mogadishu hotel on Sunday, driving a car packed with explosives through the hotel gate and killing at least 13 people, a first responder and the rebel group said. A Reuters witness...

European Shares Slide Taking Cues From Asia

European stocks and major commodity prices fell hard on Monday as concerns over China dominated financial markets in the wake of the biggest drop in Shanghai shares in eight years. The dollar was weak ahead of the week's main set...

UBS Posts Second-Quarter Earnings Above Expectations

UBS (UBSG.VX) posted a bigger-than-expected jump in second-quarter profit on Monday and chief Sergio Ermotti said the Swiss bank had "good momentum" going into the second half of 2015. Zurich-based UBS published earnings for the three months to June 30...

U.S. Companies Pledge Financial, Political Support For U.N. Climate Deal

Thirteen big name American companies on Monday were to announce $140 billion in low-carbon investments to lend support to a global climate change deal in Paris in December, the White House said. Companies including General Motors (GM.N), Bank of America...

Mitsubishi Motors Plans Japan, South East Asia, Russia Output Focus After U.S. Pullout

The president of Mitsubishi Motors Corp (7211.T) said Japan, SouthEast Asia and Russia will become the automaker's principal production hubs after it calls time on making cars in the United States later this year because of dwindling output there. "Japan,...

OPINION: JITI OGUNYE ON NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CRISES

The Ife University management, then led by Professor Michael Faborode, had rusticated some Students’ Union leaders: Akinola Saburi (Malcom X), Ogunma Segun Adrew (Karl Marx), Taiwo Hassan (Soweto), Tunde Dairo(Barry Blacky) and others for politically-motivated reasons and had the...

OPINION: NIGERIA: IS IT DEMOCRACY OR DEMONCRAZY?

Benue State is no doubt one of the struggling federating units in the entire body polity that is ravaged by mass poverty. But the State is poor not necessarily because of lack trained manpower that could power it to...

OPINION: PRESIDENT BUHARI’S PROBING FOR POSTERITY

Starting from my concluding note, it is unarguable that those who have looted Nigeria’s treasury know themselves. They may think they are smart by trying all means, including using ‘juju’ to subvert the prevalence of justice in the recovery of...

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