Street battles and gunfire erupted again in the Burundi capital on Thursday as protesters against President Pierre Nkurunziza rejected his calls for calm in the east African nation, an ethnic tinderbox with a long history of civil war and...
Deutsche Bank’s (DBKGn.DE) two chief executives faced down a storm of shareholder criticism on Thursday by conceding that their performance had fallen short and asking the bank’s owners for continued backing as they cut costs and reshape strategy.
Pressure on...
Lenovo Group Ltd (0992.HK), the world's biggest PC maker by sales, said on Thursday its annual net profit rose one percent to $829 million, slightly below analyst expectations, as it completed two major acquisitions during that year.
The Beijing-based firm...
McDonald's Corp (MCD.N) shareholders will vote Thursday on a proposal that would make it easier to nominate directors to the board of the fast-food chain, which is in turnaround mode after losing customers and sales to competition and after...
Before now, most political pundits had written off Dr Mbadinuju, as a political lightweight on account of what transpired in the State under his watch as the governor. It could be recalled that Dr. Mbadinuju was the first civilian...
Arguably going by what happened in the Hallow chamber of the Senate few days ago, precisely a week ago during plenary session, contention for the position of Senate Presidency of the coming 8th Senate among interested contenders, is no...
When one is done discussing a matter one laughs, when one is satiated sleep claims one (When a matter has been taken care of, one turns one's attention in the appropriate direction)
Let me start this essay from a very...
Dear Malam Abubakar Shekau alias alias Darul Akeem wa Zamunda Tawhee
I chose to address this letter to you in English because of my poor knowledge of that your lingua franca, that means ‘ba Hausa’. I know you may feel...
How are the mighty fallen. The Executive Secretary/Chief Executive of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), Mrs. Saratu Altine Umar finally got the boot. Umar’s sack has joined the notable response of President Goodluck Jonathan to popular demand even...
A Nigerian man was sentenced Wednesday to 36 months in prison for his role in a computer hacking and identity theft scheme that defrauded vendors of nearly $1 million of office products after “phishing” e-mail login information from government...