In time past, Nigeria despite its limitations enjoyed some passable coverage in the global media. But that appears to have stopped. Lately, the country has become one of the most featured in the global media giants like the Cable Network News (CNN), Aljazeera, China Cable Television (CCTV), Euro News, Sky News, virtually all African broadcasting channels and networks across the world. This is in the wake of the abduction of about 300 school girls from their school in Chibok, Borno State, North-east Nigeria, more so that their whereabouts is unknown.
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Meanwhile, Adamawa State governor Murtala Nyako has urged members of the National Assembly to use their constitutional powers to frustrate the latest move of President Goodluck Jonathan to extend the emergency rule in the three northeastern states.
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After a recent lecture, a young consultant came up to me. “I have a problem,” he said. “People seem to forget me right away. I’ll remember meeting them, but they have no idea we connected before. I think I’m just not memorable enough. What can I do?” Being memorable is essential for every entrepreneur -- after all, people won’t fund you or buy from you if they don’t even remember you exist.
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Henry Bloch built his company from a two-man operation into the largest tax preparationcompany in the world, with 24 million customers a year. At the Small Business Administration's National Small Business Week event in Kansas City, Missouri on Tuesday, the 91-year-old co-founder of H&R Block recalled the evolution of his company and offered insight on what made his company succeed. In a conversation with his son Tom, himself a former president and CEO of H&R Block, Bloch explained that for the first eight years it was a struggle to survive. But because he had been a C-student who had to study hard just to maintain those grades, he said, he was used to working all the time. "The reason I didn't give up was because I didn't think anyone would hire me," he said half-jokingly. "I figured I'd just keep at it."
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But is it up to the task? The Brazuca, the official ball of Brazil 2014, is the 12th ball created by Adidas for the World Cup. The company came under fire four years ago for the Jabulani, the official ball at the 2010 competition in South Africa, which was heavily criticised.
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Nowhere in the north-east of Nigeria is safe nowadays from it. It has even carried out attacks in distant cities like Kaduna, Kano and the capital, Abuja. What shocked me was that Boko Haram could launch a major attack on a smallish town like Gamburo, close to the border with Cameroon, and kill 375 people - and yet this would scarcely be reported in the rest of Nigeria, let alone the outside world.
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Pro-Russian separatists ambushed Ukrainian troops on Tuesday, killing seven in the heaviest loss of life for government forces in a single clash since Kiev sent soldiers to put down a rebellion in the country's east. With the uprising and Russia's annexation of Crimea poisoning East-West relations, Moscow retaliated against U.S. sanctions by hitting aerospace projects, including refusing to extend the life of the International Space Station, a showcase of post-Cold War cooperation.
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One of the first things I noticed during my ride today in one of Google's driverless cars was the big red kill button between the two front seats. During my 20-minute demo, we never needed the button. In fact, the ride was so smooth that I soon forgot it was there. Safety will be a selling point for driverless cars. Human error accounts for the vast majority of traffic accidents, research has shown. But if you remove the human, is the technology good enough to make the roads safer?
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Some investors may have gotten early word of changes to Federal Reserve policy between 1997 and 2013 and profited by trading before the policy shifts were publicly announced, according to Singapore-based researchers. Trading records show abnormally large price movements and imbalances in buy and sell orders that are “statistically significant and in the direction of the subsequent policy surprise,” according to a paper by Gennaro Bernile, Jianfeng Hu and Yuehua Tang at Singapore Management University.
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Bank of China Ltd. is seeking 100 billion yuan($16 billion) from selling preferred stock in the largest fundraising by a Chinese bank in almost four years to comply with stricter capital requirements. The board of the nation’s fourth-biggest bank by market value approved a plan to sell as many as 600 million of the shares through private transactions on the mainland, becoming the latest Chinese company to issue the securities domestically since the government began allowing them to two months ago. The Beijing-based company plans to sell no more than 400 million preferred shares offshore, it said in a filing yesterday.
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