NBA PRESIDENCY: Gadzama addresses Igbo lawyers
There was palpable excitement at the meeting of the Otu Oka-Iwu last week as leading Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)…
Court rules Dell’s $24.9 billion buyout priced 22…
Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners underpriced their 2013 $24.9 billion buyout of Dell Inc by about 22 percent…
Outrage in multi-ethnic Malaysia as government backs…
Prime Minister Najib Razak’s government threw its support in parliament this week behind an Islamic penal code that…
Call for ban on solicitors’ agents in public hearings
The government has been asked to resolve an ‘anomaly’ in the Legal Services Act 2007, which the bar warns could…
Families of Dana Air crash victims demand immediate…
The families of victims of the 2012 Dana plane crash, which claimed 153 lives, are demanding the immediate…
Opec’s ‘fragile five’ find life unbearable at $50 oil
Gulf Opec countries are hailing the return of $50 oil but for their more economically fragile peers the current…
Mounting anxiety ahead of OPEC meeting
There is mounting anxiety amongst the members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) as they…
Niger Delta Summit: Contention vs. Compass
Before now, our stand on the pro-posed Niger Delta Summit was that it should be scrapped. Our position is that the…
Infrastructural imbalance in E& P sector heighten…
Nigeria’s oil and gas sector today have never had it this rough going by the avalanche of hiccups that trail it in…
Ease of doing business as basis for enhancing return on…
Business and investment environment in Nigeria is one of the most challenging in the world and, in more ways than…
Influx of substandard farm machinery dims farmers’…
The Federal Government’s aim of diversifying the economy through agriculture is being threatened by the influx of…
IITA trains African researchers on weed science
The Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) under its cassava weed management project is training African…