The chairman of the United Bank for Africa, UBA, Tony Elumelu has launched the UBA UK in London. The bank had earlier announced that its London subsidiary had obtained regulatory approval to carry out wholesale banking activities in the United Kingdom. Following the authorization, UBA is now the only sub-Saharan African bank to conduct banking…
Two New York Policemen Shot Dead
A gunman has shot dead Liu Wenjin and Raphael Ramos, two police officers sitting inside a patrol car in New York before killing himself in a subway station. The officers were on duty in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn when they were shot on Saturday. Bill Bratton, commissioner of the New York police department, said…
Not Yet a Clear Path to Recovery
It was Nnamdi Azikiwe who said on television on his return to Nigeria during the civil war that no one used Sunday-School language to deal with a scoundrel. In fact, if a government resorts to arm-twisting and suppression to treat political matters, it invites equal physical resistance from the oppressed, because the law of changeless…
Ferguson Shooting: Protests Spread Across US
At least a dozen US cities have seen new protests over the decision not to charge a white policeman who shot a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. Demonstrations from New York to Seattle were mostly peaceful but rioting broke out in Oakland, California on Wednesday. There was some unrest in Ferguson itself, with police making…
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