Banking Business Startups Top Story

US taking “material action” to stop SVB fallout-sources

Nigerian startups affected US regulators were reportedly considering “material action” on Sunday to safeguard Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) deposits and minimise any broader financial ramifications from its abrupt demise, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. The fall of startup-focused lender SVB Financial Group on Friday was studied by Biden administration officials over the Read More…

Culture & Arts News Top Story

U.S. submits 23 looted Benin bronzes to Nigeria

Twenty-three Benin Bronzes that were among the hundreds of items that the British took during their invasion of the Benin Kingdom in 1897 have been returned to Nigeria by the United States. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, praised the US for returning the stolen cultural property during the repatriation ceremony on Read More…

Donald Duke Notes Top Story

America and a Lost Africa

America lost Africa for four years under Donald Trump. The Joe Biden Administration can regain it. Essentially, the United States should resist the temptation to compartmentalise the world into neatly convenient areas of descending strategic interest to it. The Trump Administration was a past master at that game. Its ideological war with China privileged the Read More…

Notes Top Story Wole Olaoye

America’s Failed Coup

“I, Brigadier-General Donald J. Trump, on behalf of the megalomaniac forces of the Republican Party hereby decree a suspension of the Constitution of the United States and the annulment of the presidential elections which returned one Joe Biden as elected. “All land, sea, underground and oversea borders are hereby closed with immediate effect. All legislators Read More…

COVID19 Golf Sports

COVID-19: Golf’s Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup, postponed to 2021, 2022

This year’s Ryder Cup, which was scheduled to be held in late September in Wisconsin, has been postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organisers said on Wednesday. The hotly-contested biennial team competition between the U.S. and Europe, known for its raucous, partisan crowds, was originally scheduled for Sept. 25 to Sept. 27 at Read More…