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The Nigerian Stock Exchange has released its Foreign Portfolio Investment report for the month of January 2016. According to the report, Foreign Portfolio Inflows (FPI) dropped by about 65% from a year ago to N17 billion (January 2015: N48 billion). Foreign Portfolio outflows however dropped to about N26 billion compared to N50 billion a year […]

The Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to the EPA’s Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan, letting stand a Third Circuit ruling that the program did not violate the Clean Water Act. In order to address stubborn, persistent agricultural pollution in one of the nation’s largest estuaries, the EPA instituted a complex scheme to regulate key […]

The Pentagon just announced this week that it would invite outside hackers who’d been pre-vetted by the U.S DOD to try their best to crack the cyber-defenses of its websites. According to Reuters, this is the first project of this kind hosted by the federal government. “Hack the Pentagon” The so-called “Hack the Pentagon” project […]Read More

When you work with others, conflict is inevitable. That’s true whether you’re working with co-counsel, support staff, or just a difficult client. How you address these disagreements can be the difference between a productive relationship and completely dysfunctional one. Even in the adversarial world of the legal system, there’s plenty of truth behind the old […]Read More

Nigeria’s foremost sugar refinery, Dangote Sugar Refinery has successfully obtained the Food Safety Systems (FSSC 22000) Certification). The certification which is a  standard fully recognized by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) comes on the heels of other standards already obtained by the refinery which include  ISO 9001:2008, ISO 22000:2005 and ISO OHSAS 18001:2007. The recommendation […]Read More

The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has availed itself creditably in the implementation of its Change Agenda, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said. Speaking on the topic: ‘The Change Agenda: The Journey so far’, at the Annual General Meeting of the Alumni Association of the National Institute (AANI) in Kuru, […]

…Wife In Critical Condition Nigeria’s Minister of State for Labour, Barrister James Ocholi, is dead. The Minister, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria from Kogi State, died with his son in a fatal accident along the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway on Sunday. Though his wife and driver survived, they are said to be in critical conditions. The accident […]

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Sunday said his administration has the will and capacity to fight all forms of crime and criminality in the state, just as he read the riot act to persons who have taken to kidnapping, warning that there would be no hiding place for such act. The governor, who […]

Hedge Funds covered their short oil bets by the most in 11 months last week. CFTC data shows managed-money short positions dropped 25,639 contracts last week, sustaining a 26% rally off February lows. In April 2015, WTI rallied over 20% off its lows amid the same short-covering squeeze, only to collapse 40% in the next […]

Officials would have you believe that all of this talk about banning cash is nonsense – a myth likely perpetuated by fringe bloggers or else by Austrian economists in the early stages of dementia. The problem, however, is that we get more signs that cash is on the way out each and every day. Take […]

If you’re hoping to have a ‘feel good’ day today, we’re about to owe you an apology. John Perkins, author of The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, is someone we’ve been trying to get on the program for some time. He tells a dark story of an elite cabal working in the shadows […]Read More

Few issues spilt America as conclusively as the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, which protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms. In July 2015, 50% of Americans said it is important to control gun ownership, and 47% said it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own […]