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Royal Dutch Shell may have to cut more jobs after laying off 12,500 people over the past year, Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden told The Telegraph. The new cuts would be prompted by a “continuous improvement drive,” the Shell CEO said. Elaborating on what this drive would imply, Van Beurden noted jobs are becoming unnecessary […]Read More

The Obama administration on Wednesday slammed sanctions on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and 10 other regime officials for their alleged complicity in human rights abuses against the North Korean people, CNN reports. The move marked the first time Washington sanctioned Kim Jong Un personally. Administration officials said Kim was “ultimately responsible” for what they […]

Umaru Shinkafi, former presidential aspirant, died in London on Wednesday, July 6, 2016 after a prolonged illness, Daily Trust reports. Shinkafi was the Marafan Sokoto and the vice presidential candidate of Olu Falae in the 1999 presidential elections. They lost to the PDP ticket Olusegun Obasanjo/Atiku Abubakar He was also head of the Nigerian secret police, the […]Read More

The remains of iconic Nollywood actress, Bukky Ajayi was laid to rest on Wednesday, July 6, 2016, the same day she died. A photo published in Daily Trust shows the body of the actress who was 82 at the time of her death, wrapped in a white cloth being buried according to Islamic rites at Etan […]

Several years ago, we were the first to point out the true “elephant in the room”, namely Deutsche Bank’s $75 trillion in derivatives which as we said at the time was about 20 times bigger than Germany’s GDP, and 5 times bigger than the entire economic output of the Eurozone.” This was largely ignored by […]Read More

Submitted by Mish Shedlock of MishTalk Four new polls show comedian Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement (M5S) ahead of prime minister  Matteo Renzi’s Democratic Party (PD) were an election held today. The next election will be no later than May 23, 2018. Renzi promised to step down if he fails a constitutional reform referendum later […]Read More

Just when you think, you’ve seen and heard everything possible and impossible in Greece with regard austerity and the crisis… there comes this incredible human story: a family of five living in carton boxes in the city of Patras in western Greece. As KeepTalkingGreece.com details, the family ended up on the streets after a labor […]

After all of the posturing that the US and China have been doing in recent months as it relates to the South China Sea, the time is drawing near for The Hague to issue a decision on one of the main sources of the tension, namely a maritime complaint that the Philippines filed against China […]

Submitted by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog, Remember the referendum in April in which voters in the Netherlands rejected the EU-Ukraine trade deal? Seems forever ago, doesn’t it? But to date nothing has been done with the outcome of the vote, even though Dutch law requires a government to implement referendum outcomes […]

News Saraki, Ekweremadu trials fuels fear over legislative independence The controversy on whether the current trial of the leadership of the upper chamber over allegations of forgery of the Senate rules, has continued to exacerbate the political crisis rocking Nigeria’s 8th National Assembly. As the debate about whether or not the trial was the right […]

ut of the blue, a group calling itself the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA spouts. They kill soldiers and policemen. They kidnap and kill oil company workers. Piracy on the high seas. They asked oil companies to stop operations and pack out of the Niger Delta region. They blow up oil pipelines, power and other infrastructure. […]

As the Bayelsa State Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja prepares to deliver judgement on the petition of the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate in the November 2015 elections, Timipre Sylva against Governor Seriake Dickson, a human rights advocacy group has raised fresh alarm that Sylva is lobbying in high places to secure black market judgement. […]