Wal-Mart fires employee for chasing after thief
No good deed goes unpunished. So when an Ocala Wal-Mart employee chased a a knife-wielding theft suspect across the store parking lot, things ended badly -- and not just for...
“Reflating the global economy through insuranceâ€
Paper presented at the ncrib 2009 National Insurance Conference .We are experiencing the biggest recession since the Great Depression of the 1930’s. The IMF forecast a drop in GDP and...
Oil Firms Battle Plans For Sector’s Overhaul
Worried by a Chinese company’s bid for stakes in prime fields, major oil groups have scheduled a meeting this week with government officials on an overhaul of sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest...
Nigeria Plans $2.6 Billion Bank Bailout, Ousts Top Executives
LAGOS, Nigeria -- The Central Bank of Nigeria pledged to inject nearly $2.6 billion into five troubled banks and dismissed the institutions' top executives, a dramatic move aimed at rescuing...
Talks Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: How to help Africa? Do business there
We know the negative images of Africa -- famine and disease, conflict and corruption. But, says Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, there's another, less-told story happening in many African nations: one of reform,...