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J&J: The next target of anger over America’s opioid crisis?
When Alex Gorsky, chief executive of Johnson & Johnson, spoke to a room full of business leaders last year, he described the company’s 75-year old “credo” as its “special sauce”. It was…
Argentina: How IMF’S biggest ever bailout crumbled under Macri
The decision to seek what became the biggest bailout in the IMF’S history took only a few minutes. A loss of faith in Argentina’s reform programme had been visibly demonstrated by a two-week…
Markets yield to fears of a global downturn
The nearest thing the global economy has to a doomsday clock ticked a little closer to midnight this week, triggering fear across financial markets. On Wednesday, the US yield curve — the…
Rwanda: Where even poverty data must toe Kagame’s line
In landlocked Rwanda, a small mountain state in the centre of Africa, strongman President Paul Kagame has overseen a miracle. From the ashes of a genocide in which some 800,000 people were…
Venezuela: The political stand-off fuelling an economic collapse
The man backed by the western world to save Venezuela from dictatorship and economic ruin is running late. A charismatic 36-year-old former student leader with more than a passing…
Weber’s puzzle: Why is Nigeria so religious, yet so poor?
A few months ago, the popular American preacher TD Jakes came to the church I attend in London. Preaching on leadership and wealth, he said prayer is not leadership and won’t make anyone…
No plan to phase out N100 notes – CBN
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Friday said there were no plans to phase out the lower denomination banknotes, specifically the N100 note.
The N100 banknote has been scarce and the ones…
Covenant, UNN, FUT Minna, Ilorin, UI top most preferred graduates by employers
Graduates from Covenant University have come tops as the most preferred graduates in the Nigerian labour market, The Nigerian Graduate Report 2018, prepared by Stutern in partnership with…