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Coca-Cola Amends Equity Plan To Minimize Dilution

Coca-Cola Co, under pressure from an activist investor, said it had adopted new guidelines under its 2014 equity plan that will extend the number of years shares will last under the plan by using fewer shares each year. The company...

Special Report: In Foreign Hands, British Automakers Overtake France

When Britain lost its last native car company 20 years ago, it was lamented across the political spectrum as a national catastrophe. "The sheer stupidity and immorality of this betrayal is too scandalous to be ignored," wrote a columnist in...

Nigeria’s Campaigning President Says ‘Turning Tide’ Against Islamists

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Wednesday the army was turning the tide against Boko Haram Islamists and he trumpeted his government's achievements in what sounded like a bid for re-election just months before a presidential poll. The Feb. 14...

Japan Volcano Death Toll Likely To Rise To Around 46 As More Victims Found

The death toll from Japan's worst volcanic eruption in decades is likely to rise to around 46 after as more victims were discovered on the ash-covered summit, media said on Wednesday. Military searchers resumed a recovery operation with helicopters early...

Argentina Defies U.S. Court Order By Depositing Debt Payment

Argentina deposited a $161 million bond interest payment with a newly appointed local trustee on Tuesday, the Economy Ministry said, defying a U.S. judge who held it in contempt a day earlier for taking illegal steps to meet its...

Adidas Seeks To Placate Investors With Share Buyback

German sportswear maker Adidas, facing investor discontent after a series of profit warnings, plans to return as much as 1.5 billion euros ($1.9 billion) to shareholders over the next three years. The shareholder return program would be financed mainly from...

Senate Directs Jega To Halt Creation Of Additional 30,000 Polling Units

SAN FRANCISCO, September 30, (THEWILL) – The Senate on Tuesday directed the National Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, to immediately halt his plan to create additional 30,000 new polling units. Senate's action, which also contained...

OPINION: “MR. PRESIDENT SHOULD PROVIDE LEADERSHIP AND PROTECT THE JUDICIARY”

The current security situation in Ekiti State today is a big threat to our nascent democracy, political stability and judicial independence. Above all, it is an afront to our peaceful co-existence in our immediate environment and to our nation...

OPINION: THE ENDORSEMENT OF “CLUELESS” JONATHAN

Just how clueless can President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan be if he has outwitted every other potential aspirant in the presidential candidacy politics of his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)? Or, how inexperienced, as claimed by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar,...

OPINION: A NEW VISION FOR RIVERS STATE

Nigerians from all walks of life are conversant with the rather deadly strategies adopted by the outgoing governor of Rivers State to kill the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State on account of his personally induced conflict with...

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