How Bank of America $17B Historic Fine Would be Spent, Lessons for African Banks
Bank of America is paying $16.65 billion to settle fraud claims by federal and state enforcement agencies and regulators that relate back to the financial crisis of 2008. It’s “the…
Ojukwu Replaces Mba as Police Spokesman
The Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Suleiman Abba, has appointed DCP Emmanuel Ojukwu as the new Force Public Relations Officer. Mba who occupied the position from February 2012 to August,…
Ebola: American Doctors Discharged from Hospital, Thank God and Humanity
Emotion ran high and despair turned to hope as American doctor Kent Brantly and North Carolina missionary Nancy Writebol, both of whom contracted Ebola while treating infected Liberian patients, were…
Lagos Confirms Five New Ebola Cases
Barely 24 hours after the death of a senior physician, Stella Ameyo Adadevoh, who attended to the first Ebola casualty in the country, American Patrick Sawyer, the Lagos State Government…
Britain Offers to Send Tornado Jets to Locate Chibok Girls
Nigeria’s last ditch efforts to locate and rescue the remaining 219 Chibok girls held by Boko Haram seem to be yielding fruit as Britain’s Royal Air Force has offered to…
Mark, Jega, Obe others billed for Editors’ confab
All is now set for the All Nigeria Editors Conference (ANEC) holding in Katsina, Katsina State, from Wednesday August 27 to Saturday August 30. The conference, organized yearly by the…
Saudi Arabia Beheads Four Brothers for Importing Hashish
Saudi Arabia reportedly executed four brothers from the same family on Monday for their attempts to smuggle hashish into the kingdom, bringing the number of beheadings in Saudi up to…
Tears as Dr. Adadevoh Dies of Ebola, Toll Now Five
Dr. Stella Ameyo Adadevoh, one of the country’s best consultant physicians, who had contracted the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) from the index carrier, Patrick Sawyer, an American, who imported…
Military Fault British Newspaper Report Over War on Terror
Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has faulted a British newspaper report that Nigerian government committed war crimes by terrorising some of its citizens in the war against insurgency. This is contained in…
New York Regulator Suspends PricewaterhouseCoopers for Covering Fraud
New York’s Department of Financial Services said Monday that PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Regulatory Advisory Services has been suspended for two years for helping whitewash a sanctions and anti-money laundering compliance report…