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George Uboh, the serial fraudster who sensationally accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of diverting proceeds of recovered assets was todayconvicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment by Justice S. E. Aladetoyinbo of the Federal Capital Territory High Court Abuja, for his role in converting the property of the defunct Police Equipment Foundation to his […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, secured the conviction of a former member of the Kogi State House of Assembly and former Caretaker Chairman, Ogori/Magongo Local Government Area of the state, Gabriel Daudu, for a N1.4 billion fraud. Daudu, who was first arraigned in April 2010, was prosecuted by the EFCC on […]

Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, assisted by the Sokoto Commissioner of Health, Dr. Balarabe Kakale, presenting mosquito nets and anti-malaria kits to a beneficiary at an event to mark this year’s World Malaria Day celebration in Sokoto…Monday 25/04/16 Nigeria alone accounts for over 40 percent of the estimated total malaria deaths globally, a situation that is […]Read More

Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun (2nd right); Director, Ake Arts and Books Festival, Lola Shoneyin (left); representative of Etisalat Nigeria, Opeyemi Lawal (2nd left) and representative of Marine Platforms, Baji Nyam (right) at the 2015 Ake Arts and Books Festival held at the June 12 Cultural Center, Abeokuta on Thursday. The Ogun State Independent […]

The Lagos State Government on Monday announced plans to upgrade the network of roads in Ikeja to improve and boost the economic stature of the seat of Government to world class standard and to reduce traffic gridlock around the corridor to the barest minimum. The government also revealed its readiness to expand the Awolowo Way […]

Listening to President Muhammadu Buhari talking about the Naira, one gets a sense of a man emotionally attached to the Nigerian currency. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. South Africans are known to be emotionally attached to the Rand, especially when it starts its wild gyrations against the dollar. In the USA politicians across the […]

Wood Mackenzie, the energy consultancy, has cut its output forecast for Nigeria by more than a fifth or about 28.5%, to 1.5m barrels a day on average over the next decade. Its previous forecast for the period was 2.1m barrels a day, roughly in line with present output levels. “The government is not doing a […]

Access Bank Plc, the Nigerian lender with offices in eight other countries has leapfrogged other tier 1 peer rivals by recording double digit growth at the top and bottom lines  amid an economic downturn hurting businesses in Africa largest economy. It was expected that banks will have earnings squeezed on the back of exposure to the […]

If you are an investor in Nigeria’s capital markets then it probably pays to listen to Nairametrics. We flagged the potential margin compression coming to Dangote Cement in our earlier piece on the firms FY 2015 results which can be found in the following link http://nairametrics.com/2015-result-why-you-should-be-concerned-if-you-are-long-on-dangote-cement/ In Dangote Cement’s First Quarter 2016 results just released […]Read More

Luddites take note: technology ought not be shunned, but embraced. Becoming comfortable and current with tech is increasingly a determinant in how likely your firm is to survive over the long term. And it’s not even just about how competent your firm actually is, either. Even client perceptions can be crucial. Actual Speed The pen […]

Throughout the past eight years, President Obama has worked slowly but surely to bring greater diversity to the federal courts, the president assured law students at the University of Chicago Law School earlier this month. But when it came time to picking his third Supreme Court nominee, he told the crowd, “at no point did […]

Is the budget for your intellectual property legal team too high? Are you overspending on legal while your competitors get by with leaner teams? Or is it too low, destining you to go over budget? How can you tell, anyway? By looking to a few key performance indicators to see if your IP legal spending […]