A South Korean court is set to rule on whether the captain of a ferry that capsized killing more than 300 people, most of them children on a school trip, should be put to death for culpable homicide in...
A long-awaited trading link between Hong Kong and Shanghai will launch on Nov. 17, a crucial step towards opening China's capital markets that will give foreign and Chinese individual investors unprecedented access to each others' stock exchanges.
The announcement by...
BlackBerry, which has completed the first phase of its two-year turnaround plan, is now focused on profitability and will not spread itself thin by attempting to launch too many new devices, its chief executive said.
John Chen, who took the...
U.S. energy major Chevron (CVX.N) has yet to complete an assessment of Romania's natural gas potential from shale, it said, one day after the country's prime minister said "it looks like we fought very hard for something that we...
Prolific best selling author and internationally renowned preacher and business coach, Dr. Myles Munroe of Bahamas Faith Ministries International and his wife Mrs. Ruth Ann Munroe, died in a plane crash earlier today in the Bahamas. According to The...
When Senator Iyabo Obasanjo, daughter of the former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, wrote a vitriolic letter to her father some time ago reminding him that he does not own Nigeria, many of us thought she was a bit too...
Last Monday, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar was so moved by reports that the terrorist sect, Boko Haram, captured Mubi, that he held a press conference to invite international assistance towards containing the growing insurgency. He was so distressed...
The role of Science, Technology and Innovation (ST&I) in any nation cannot be overemphasized. As part of efforts to rescue the future of Nigeria and its people from poverty and deprivation, the Federal Government in 2012 approved the national...
These are political seasons and indeed not the best of time to critique a government in Nigeria whereby most observers read political meanings into virtually all write ups that fundamentally addresses the major flaws in the running of any...
On Tuesday, October 28, 2014 the Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal formally announced his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the plenary of the House.
The newly confirmed...