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Nigerian looking to secure prepaid or postpaid meters may have to wait a little longer as local meter manufacturers have said that they can produce at least 25,000 meters monthly for a start. The Punch reports that The Electricity Meters Manufacturers Association of Nigeria “said they will produce at least 25,000 meters monthly for a start, with […]Read More

The Dangote Group, has disclosed that at the completion of its refinery, Nigeria would be transformed from a fuel importing to an exporting country. This is coming from Mansur Ahmed, Executive Director, Stakeholder Management and Corporate Communications, Dangote Group while briefing newsmen in Abuja. Ahmed gave insight on how Dangote Group will overcome the problem […]

The Lagos State government would commence massive clampdown and prosecution of tax evaders in the state beginning from Friday, the state Inland Revenue Service has warned. A statement signed by Monsurat Amasa, Head of Corporate Affairs of the LIRS, on Thursday, said: “in consonance with Section 82 of the Personal Income Tax Act (as amended), […]

Cameroonian government late Wednesday handed over two suicide bombers its soldiers caught in the country some days ago and who disclosed that they are Nigerians with one saying she was one of the abducted Chibok girls. Maryam Alhaji Wakeel and Aishatu Usman were handed over to Nigerian soldiers after the claiming to be from Chibok […]

The Federal Government has said it is keenly aware of the difficulties that Nigerians are currently facing over the lingering fuel scarcity and poor power supply, and that it is working round the clock to provide the relief for the citizenry. “As a government that was propelled into office by the power of the people, […]

The Nigerian Army has highlighted it’s achievements in the fight against insurgency in the past few months to include the capture of many of the remaining Boko Haram hideouts. Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Leo Irabor who gave the highlights on Wednesday when he talked with journalists reporting security. Irabor said, “Consistent […]

Submitted by Chris Martenson via PeakProsperity.com, Right now I’m on a Metro North train heading the NYC. I’ve been invited to sit on an advisory council at the UN on building a sustainable energy future. I’ll let you know how the meeting goes, after I take a few selfies to immortalize the experience in case I’m not […]Read More

In this morning’s media frenzy story du jour, a 15-year-old girl, who was protesting at a Trump rally in Wisconsin, ended up being pepper sprayed, or at least that’s how most of the media portrayed the incident. Since we were unsure what had happened, we specifically stated that “who knows what actually happened here and […]Read More

On Tuesday, Janet Yellen delivered what some observers called her finest “performance” since ascending to the monetary throne in February of 2014. Of course in the post-crisis world, central bankers are only praised when they make dovish pronouncements. Hawks are heretical. To tighten is to sin. The conundrum for Yellen is that she appears to […]

This won’t exactly come as a surprise: the global oil industry is corrupt.  We are, after all, talking about the most financialized commodity in the history of the world, and up until a few years ago, it was controlled by a cartel comprised entirely of nations run by caricatures and stereotypes that the Western public […]

After The Fed jawboned the world into the largest aggregate net short position in Treasuries in Q4 since 2010, its rapid realization that all is not well in the real world – and subsequent talking (and walking) back of rate-hike expectations – has sparked the biggest short-squeeze in 6 years and sent Treasuries up by […]

Submitted by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, Today, I’m going to share one of the most important things I’ve learned traveling around the world: There’s a crucial difference between committing a real crime and breaking the law. I’ve seen it firsthand in the Middle East as well as many other places. The difference is huge and […]Read More