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Songs for the times:  Happy days are here again… You’re at the Top (NASDAQ) Gimme A Pigfoot And A Bottle Of Beer (Drinkin’ with Loretta) Doin’ The New Low-Down (Comey) It Makes No Difference Now (Hillary) With Plenty Of Money And You It’s Only A Paper Moon (ETF) Anything Goes (ECB) Shake ’Em On Down […]Read More

Submitted by Joseph Jankowski via PlanetFreeWill.com, A professor at the Southern State Community College (SSCC) in Ohio is currently under investigation for threatening to shoot up the NRA headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia and Washington lobbyists in order to increase support for anti-gun legislation. Adjunct professor James Pearce wrote in a Facebook post on June 13… […]

“It’s probably nothing…” The headline-maker in Italy is Monte Paschi which has seen CDS soar post the regulatory ban on short-selling stock. At over 1700bps, this implies a 67% chance of default… crushing the hopes and dreams of 100s of thousands of mommas and poppas and Renzi’s dream of reelection… As Bloomberg adds, Banca Monte […]Read More

Following last night’s larger-than-expected API-reported biggest drawdown in 13 months, DOE reported a mere 2.2mm draw (well below API’s 6.7mm draw and expectations of a 2.5mm draw). Perhaps even bigger was the very small 122k draw in gasoline stocks compared to API’s 3.6mm draw and WTI is tumbling in reaction. However, crude production plunged by […]Read More

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, says the country’s commercial banks are not distressed as reports had alleged, days after the apex bank took over the management of Skyebank, one of Nigeria’s biggest commercial banks. Skyebank had not released its 2015 results allegedly because the bank recorded huge losses, sources within the bank told TheSimonAtebaNews. […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday commiserated with the government and people of Sokoto State on the passing away of Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi, a former presidential candidate. The late Shinkafi was 79 years old when he passed away on Wednesday afternoon at the Harefield Hospital, Hill End Road, Harefield, Middlesex, in the United Kingdom after a […]

President Buhari with R-L: Secretary General of Commonwealth Rt. Hon. Patricia Scotland QC, Secretary of State, UK Department for International Development Mr Jusne Greening MP and MO Ibrahim of MO Ibrahim Foundation shortly after his Keynote Address at the Commonwealth Anti Corruption Conference for Civil Society, Business and Government Leaders at the Commonwealth Secretariat Marlborough […]

Fayose Nigeria’s Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged Nigerian governors to the International Criminal Court, ICC, over alleged crimes against humanity for not paying already impoverished workers for months. The group said the non-payment of workers’ salaries by several state governments in Nigeria “has made life impossible to live for the workers and […]

The biggest Menswear fashion week in Africa, SA Menswear Week SS17, kicked off today at the Capetown Stadium, in Capetown, South Africa. The Menswear Week was opened by new designer, Nicholas Coutts, debuting his first solo collection. Designers from all over Africa will be showing their 2017 Spring Summer collections throughout the fashion week. Nigerian […]

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has on Wednesday, July 6, said that President Muhammadu Buhari is using an “equally corrupt” Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to fight corruption in Nigeria. “EFCC opinions remain their opinions and if they are so sure of whatever information they have, they should go to court and stop […]

Condoms might have been around for a very long time, but they haven’t changed much. That is about to change as LELO have launched HEX, a major revolution in condom design. Sex toy brand LELO has made HEX, a groundbreaking condom featuring innovative design and construction to make safe sex more pleasurable and perhaps, eliminate […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has provided a soft landing platform of negotiation for all treasury looters, insisting that they must quickly return stolen public funds in their possession or face the consequences. Buhari, stated this on Wednesday, July 6, while receiving a delegation of Muslim residents in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, who paid him Sallah […]