archiveOctober 8, 2016

Mr Ebun Olu Adegboruwa, lawyer and activist, has called on the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to call out lawyers in the country to boycott courts sittings over the Saturday morning arrest and detention of two Justices of the Supreme Court and the harassment of judges of the Federal High Court...

The Department of State Services (DSS) said on Saturday that it seized cash in various currencies totalling $800,000 during raids targeting some of the country's most senior judges in corruption investigations, According to Reuters’ report monitored by Business247 News Online, DSS carried out the sting operations on the judges' premises...

Colombia left deeply divided by a contested peace deal with the FARC rebels, not everyone was happy about President Juan Manuel Santos winning the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. According to AFP report,  "Santos doesn't deserve it," said Rodolfo Oviedo, one of the opponents of a peace deal that aimed...

A turnover of 934.905 million shares worth N6.357 billion in 12,352 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in contrast to a total of 1.287 billion shares valued at N9.303 billion that exchanged hands last week in 15,258 deals. The Market...

China’s foreign exchange reserves dropped  $19 billion in September to a five-year low, government data showed, with the central bank spending heavily to defend its currency against capital outflows. The currency  fell to under $3.17 trillion, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said on its website Friday, below median analyst...

The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has reassured Nigerians that the Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) in the country are healthy despite recession. Managing Director of NDIC, Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim who stressed this added that 90 per cent of depositors are covered by the corporation with the deposit insured limit pegged...

Customer service is not what you say about yourself, it’s what people say about you through frequent interactions with your customer-facing employees. The customers are the best judges of your customer service strategy. No matter how great your product or service is, if you do not have a great customer...

The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has formally replied the allegations levied against him by the party’s National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, concerning the choice of the party’s governorship candidate for the Ondo State governorship election. THE FACTS – 2016 ONDO STATE APC GOVERNORSHIP...