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The Management of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC has sympathised with the family of a Corps member, Okonta Dumebi Samuel (RV/15B/5539) who died in the re-run elections held in Rivers State on Saturday. Corps member Okonta Samuel, who until his demise served at GCSS Ukpeliede, was shot dead by some unknown gunmen in Ahoada West Local […]Read More

The Registrar and Bursar of Benue State University, Makurdi, Dr Timothy Utile and Mr Aondoakaa Kwaghfan, have been sacked. The decision to  sack the Bursar and Registrar  was taken after the duo were indicted by the report of a seven-man visitation panel set up by the state Governor, Samuel Ortom to review the activities of […]

A governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo state, Senator Ehigie Uzamere on Monday resigned his membership of the PDP barely two weeks after the state congresses of the party. Senator Uzamere who was in the senate between 2007-2015, is the only senator from the Edo South senatorial district who had spent two […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that If urgent steps are not taken, the electoral promise of the All Progressives Congress to build one million housing units in a year would not be achieved The President said this on Monday at the opening of the National Economic Council’s economic retreat held inside the old Banquet Hall […]

The Kano state executive committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has suspended party chairman, Umar Doguwa for being loyal to former Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso, barely 24 hours after Governor Abdullahi Ganduje expressed willingness to reconcile with his predecessor. Present at the meeting where the chairman was suspended were state party leaders as well as […]

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said journalists in Nigeria have nothing to fear from the Nigerian government in the performance of their duties. “Under this dispensation, we have never even contemplated stifling the freedom of the media not to talk of hounding them to death,” the Minister said in Doha on […]

Submitted by Salil Mehta of Statistical Ideas Blindly Dancing At A Top If it’s too good to be true, then it probably is!  We’ve seen this show before and admonished about it beforehand (here, here).  In the 25 trading days since February 11 (when the S&P closed at 1829), the market surged at an average […]Read More

Following a mysterious “third party”‘s willingness to show The FBI how to unlock San Bernardino killer Farook’s iPhone, court records indicate that the US government wishes to cancel tomorrow’s showdown with Apple, filing a motion to vacate the hearing. Hours after Tim Cook explcitly told the world (marketed) his firm would never sell out their […]Read More

The automation of the global workplace is spreading and, as Pew recently found, 65% of Americans now believe their job will inevitably be done by robots. In a low-growth world, every low-skill job is up for grabs by the robot/drone horde as the need to cut costs is core business for every CFO (aside from […]

Submitted by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, Last week, the ECB extended its monetary madness, pushing deposit rates further into negative figures. It is extending quantitative easing from sovereign debt into non-financial investment grade bonds, while increasing the pace of acquisition to €80bn per month. The ECB also promised to pay the banks to take credit […]

There is nothing wrong with attack ads: Trump’s first attack ad against Hillary Clinton was creative, original, imaginative – it included Jihadi John, a barking Hillary Clinton and a cackling Putin. It promptly went viral. Hillary’s retort was basically a duller version of the original Trump ad; it was ok although Hillary’s SuperPAC will have […]Read More

Submitted by Dave Forrest of Pierce Points The First Gold Buying In 3 Weeks Happening For This Critical Consumer Major news in the gold market over the weekend. With the world’s largest gold-consuming nation reaching an agreement to resume metal sales for the first time in nearly three weeks. That’s in India. A critical gold consumer […]Read More