Nigeria Business News » World http://businessnews.com.ng Nigeria Business News Tue, 21 May 2013 10:09:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Obama gains auto-makers confidence ahead of elections http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/11/02/obama-gains-auto-makers-confidence-ahead-of-elections/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=obama-gains-auto-makers-confidence-ahead-of-elections http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/11/02/obama-gains-auto-makers-confidence-ahead-of-elections/#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:44:25 +0000 Ottoabasi Abasiekong http://businessnews.com.ng/?p=23212 With less than four days to the biggest election on earth, the U.S Presidential elections, the Automakers have given President Barack Obama a thumps up and their maximum support ahead of the elections. In 2009 President Obama crafted an $80billion rescue plan for General Motors and Chrysler motors group to manage the bankruptcy of the [...]

Obama gains auto-makers confidence ahead of elections

]]> http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/11/02/obama-gains-auto-makers-confidence-ahead-of-elections/feed/ 0 Gun Sales Increase In Colorado After 12 Killed In Movie Theater http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/07/24/gun-sales-increase-in-colorado-after-12-killed-in-movie-theater/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gun-sales-increase-in-colorado-after-12-killed-in-movie-theater http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/07/24/gun-sales-increase-in-colorado-after-12-killed-in-movie-theater/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:27:35 +0000 Bloomberg http://businessnews.com.ng/?p=15745 Background checks for gun purchases spiked 43 percent in Colorado after 12 people were killed inside a suburban Denver movie theater, according to state data.  Gun dealers submitted 2,887 requests for state background checks required to sell a firearm in the three days after the July 20 shooting, said Susan Medina, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Bureau [...]

Gun Sales Increase In Colorado After 12 Killed In Movie Theater

]]> http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/07/24/gun-sales-increase-in-colorado-after-12-killed-in-movie-theater/feed/ 0 Mayer Becomes Highest-Profile Pregnant Woman Hired As CEO http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/07/18/mayer-becomes-highest-profile-pregnant-woman-hired-as-ceo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mayer-becomes-highest-profile-pregnant-woman-hired-as-ceo http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/07/18/mayer-becomes-highest-profile-pregnant-woman-hired-as-ceo/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2012 07:55:25 +0000 Afolabi Ogunde http://businessnews.com.ng/?p=15663 Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer is breaking new ground for Fortune 500 companies by starting her job more than six months pregnant, a trend already embraced by young women running Silicon Valley startups. Mayer, an engineer and former Google Inc. executive who helped develop the company’s home page and maps products, was hired by Yahoo after a [...]

Mayer Becomes Highest-Profile Pregnant Woman Hired As CEO

]]> http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/07/18/mayer-becomes-highest-profile-pregnant-woman-hired-as-ceo/feed/ 1 Facebook plans to raise $10.6 billion in mega IPO http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/05/04/facebook-plans-to-raise-10-6-billion-in-mega-ipo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=facebook-plans-to-raise-10-6-billion-in-mega-ipo http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/05/04/facebook-plans-to-raise-10-6-billion-in-mega-ipo/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 07:25:11 +0000 reuters http://businessnews.com.ng/?p=14104 Facebook Inc aims to raise about $10.6 billion in Silicon Valley’s largest IPO, dwarfing the coming-out parties of tech companies like Google Inc and granting the world’s largest social network a market value close to Amazon.com’s. The eight-year-old social network that began as Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm room project indicated an initial public offering price [...]

Facebook plans to raise $10.6 billion in mega IPO

]]> http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/05/04/facebook-plans-to-raise-10-6-billion-in-mega-ipo/feed/ 0 Obama Jokes About Romney, Second Term http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/04/29/obama-jokes-about-romney-second-term/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=obama-jokes-about-romney-second-term http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/04/29/obama-jokes-about-romney-second-term/#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:32:26 +0000 Bloomberg http://businessnews.com.ng/?p=13951 President Barack Obama unveiled his “secret agenda” for a second term last night, vowing to “win the war on Christmas” and replace the former ban on gays serving openly in the military with a policy called “It’s Raining Men.” Then the mock agenda was abruptly cut short. “I had a lot more material prepared, but I have [...]

Obama Jokes About Romney, Second Term

]]> http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/04/29/obama-jokes-about-romney-second-term/feed/ 0 City Trader Who Spent £200,000 on Champagne Arrested by FSA http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/04/04/city-trader-who-spent-200000-on-champagne-arrested-by-fsa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=city-trader-who-spent-200000-on-champagne-arrested-by-fsa http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/04/04/city-trader-who-spent-200000-on-champagne-arrested-by-fsa/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:07:52 +0000 Huffington Post http://businessnews.com.ng/?p=13247 In March, 23-year-old UK Foreign Exchange trader Alex Hope made headlines for reportedly spending more than $320,000 on champagne at a Liverpool night club. Exactly one month later, he’s back in the news. But this time, instead of libations, it’s about allegations. Hope was arrested Tuesday by the U.K.’s Financial Services Authority “on suspicion of being [...]

City Trader Who Spent £200,000 on Champagne Arrested by FSA

]]> http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/04/04/city-trader-who-spent-200000-on-champagne-arrested-by-fsa/feed/ 0 ‘Aggravated Pimping’ Probe for Strauss-Kahn http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/03/27/aggravated-pimping-probe-for-strauss-kahn/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=aggravated-pimping-probe-for-strauss-kahn http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/03/27/aggravated-pimping-probe-for-strauss-kahn/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:28:49 +0000 Washington Post http://businessnews.com.ng/?p=13036 French magistrates charged Dominique Strauss-Kahn with “aggravated pimping,” placing the former International Monetary Fund chief under preliminary investigation for his alleged involvement in a French prostitution ring, prosecutors said. The magistrates on Monday ordered Mr. Strauss-Kahn to refrain from communicating with plaintiffs as well as with anyone else being prosecuted in the investigation, prosecutors from [...]

‘Aggravated Pimping’ Probe for Strauss-Kahn

]]> http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/03/27/aggravated-pimping-probe-for-strauss-kahn/feed/ 0 Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/03/14/why-i-am-leaving-goldman-sachs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-i-am-leaving-goldman-sachs http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/03/14/why-i-am-leaving-goldman-sachs/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:18:40 +0000 New York Times http://businessnews.com.ng/?p=12692 Greg Smith is resigning today as a Goldman Sachs executive director and head of the firm’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. TODAY is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New [...]

Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs

]]> http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/03/14/why-i-am-leaving-goldman-sachs/feed/ 1 Former IMF Boss Detained For Involvement in Prostitution Ring http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/02/21/former-imf-boss-detained-for-involvement-in-prostitution-ring/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=former-imf-boss-detained-for-involvement-in-prostitution-ring http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/02/21/former-imf-boss-detained-for-involvement-in-prostitution-ring/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:03:01 +0000 Afolabi Ogunde http://businessnews.com.ng/?p=12020 Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and former leading candidate for the French presidency has been detained by French police over allegations he patronized prostitutes in Lille, a province in the North of France. Strauss-Kahn submitted himself for questioning this morning and was detained by the police who have the [...]

Former IMF Boss Detained For Involvement in Prostitution Ring

]]> http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/02/21/former-imf-boss-detained-for-involvement-in-prostitution-ring/feed/ 1 European Leaders Approve Bailout for Greece http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/02/21/european-leaders-approve-bailout-for-greece/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=european-leaders-approve-bailout-for-greece http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/02/21/european-leaders-approve-bailout-for-greece/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:09:16 +0000 Afolabi Ogunde http://businessnews.com.ng/?p=12002 European Finance Ministers reached an accord to provide € 130 billion in aid to Greece in order to ensure the country can continue, at least over the short-term, to meet its debt obligations instead of defaulting on them. A default would damage the Euro and harm the economies of its members which include Germany, France, [...]

European Leaders Approve Bailout for Greece

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