China's e-commerce market is expected to leapfrog that of the United States this year to become the world's largest by total customer spending, management consultancy firm Bain & Company says, and could account for half of all Chinese retail...
Energy shares buoyed Wall Street on Wednesday as oil prices jumped after the United States and its allies appeared ready to attack Syria, raising concerns over global oil supplies.
Selling pressure abated on equities following stocks' worst day since June...
Emerging stocks, bonds and currencies took another hammering on Wednesday as mounting expectations of Western action against Syria pushed up oil prices and drove investors to seek shelter in dollar assets.
The United States and its allies appeared to be...
Switzerland has given the go-ahead to finalize a joint statement with the United States that it hopes will bring to an end a long, costly dispute over Swiss banks that have sheltered U.S. tax evaders.
The government said on Wednesday...
SAN FRANCISCO, August 28, (THEWILL) – Taraba State Governor, Danbaba Suntai Wednesday dissolved the entire State Executive Committee and all special advisers.
The state government has also announced the immediate appointment of Mr. Timothy Katap as the new Secretary to...
SAN FRANCISCO, August 28, (THEWILL) – FBN Holdings Plc Tuesday reported its unaudited IFRS compliant results for the first half of the year which ended in June.
The highlights of the Profit and loss of the publicly listed company are...
One would wonder why I have chosen to respond to Dele Momodu’s recent well publicised “brotherly advice” to the amiable, widely acclaimed and indefatigable governor of Akwa Ibom State, His Excellency, Godswill Obot Akpabio. To justify my intervention in...
When I first met the former Secretary to the Akwa Ibom State Government, Umana Okon Umana, his simplicity and unassuming nature were overwhelming. This was so because I had heard stories of how powerful and influential this soft spoken...
There was confusion in Taraba State on Wednesday as the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Mr. Haruna Tsokwa and the Majority Leader, Mr. Joseph Albasu, disagreed on who ran the affairs of the state as governor.
While Tsokwa said...
Anambra is set, it appears, to act as dress rehearsal for Nigeria’s next round of general elections in 2015. For some inexplicable reason, the state’s political experience holds up a mirror to what used to be termed Nigeria’s “nascent...
