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FCMB will shift its focus to better managing its loan book rather than growing aggressively, after 2015 pre-tax profit fell 68 percent, CEO Ladi Balogun told an analysts’ call. Its pre-tax profit of N7.77 billion ($39.08 million), was down from N23.94 billion a year earlier and followed a profit warning FCMB issued last month citing […]

The Petroleum Minister of Ghana, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah has confirmed that the country cannot do without gas supply from Nigeria. The country has just completed its own Gas projects with the coming on stream of the ENI and Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomme (TEN) projects. According to the Minister ” We have learnt quick enough to […]

Huawei the Chinese telecoms company is slowly and stealthily advancing on the top two smartphone makers Apple and Samsung. The firm reported today that its profits are up 30 percent (driven by strong Smartphone sales) with revenues rising to $61 billion in a statement accompanying its annual report. Huawei also reported that it was the […]

Malpractice is the potential danger to every attorney that should be regarded with deadly seriousness. If you’re a rash go-getter, this can both be good and bad for you. Your personality can be good at the negotiating table in pushing up settlement figures for your client. But it can also have a tendency to make […]

President Muhammadu Buhari said Thursday in Washington DC that he will critically review the 2016 Appropriation Bill  passed by the National Assembly before assenting to it. Speaking at a meeting with the United States Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry, President Buhari said that in view of the controversial alteration and padding of the budget […]

Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode in a statement by the state commissioner for the environment, Babatunde Adejare said on Thursday that the restriction of movement between 7 Am and 10 am on environmental sanitation days will no longer take effect. The statement revealed that the Government cannot afford to shut down a mega city like Lagos for a period of three […]Read More

Following the letter that was written by Detained  leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, in which he urged the British Government  to intervene in his case and compel President Muhammadu Buhari to release him from prison,  IPOB has clarified  that the letter was misinterpreted. The Head of IPOB media and […]

The Cross River State Universal Basic Education Board has uncovered over 200 fake teachers in nine local government areas of the state. Following the ongoing personal audit of teachers in the state by SUBEB, it was discovered that the bulk of the exposed teachers were in the nine LGAs out of the 18 council areas […]

No fewer than 147 “over-aged” teaching and non-teaching staff of Delta State-owned tertiary institutions have been penciled down for retirement this was said in Delta state by the Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa. The affected staff are from the Colleges of Education in Agbor, Warri and Mosogar; as well as the three state-owned Polytechnics in Ogwashi-Uku, […]

Kaduna state will soon embark on massive retraining of its teachers, while the state plans to recruit more teachers to provide school children with qualitative education, as 44% teachers in the state are not qualified to teach, Governor Nasir El-Rufai has said. Addressing an interactive session with selected journalists in Kaduna, he said that the […]

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, When fear becomes collective, when anger becomes collective, it’s extremely dangerous. It is overwhelming… The mass media and the military-industrial complex create a prison for us, so we continue to think, see, and act in the same way… We need the courage to express ourselves even when […]

Thursday in Washington, I’ll welcome more than 50 world leaders to our fourth Nuclear Security Summit to advance a central pillar of our Prague Agenda: preventing terrorists from obtaining and using a nuclear weapon. We’ll review our progress, such as successfully ridding more than a dozen countries of highly enriched uranium and plutonium. Nations, including the United States, […]Read More