Mr. X worked for a Nigerian bank for nearly 20 years, rising to a senior management level. Last year during his annual leave, he received a message telling him not to bother returning to the bank; he had been sacked. Ms. Y came to office one early morning as she […]

South African owners appear to footdrag on promise to list There is growing disquiet among Nigerian shareholders in MTNNigeria, who now say the company led them to believe that it would list its shares on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) following the highly successful private placement in 2007. In that […]

France and Germany agreed on Thursday to stop arguing in public over whether the European Central Bank should do more to rescue the euro zone from a deepening sovereign debt crisis. President Nicolas Sarkozy and Chancellor Angela Merkel said after talks with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti that they trusted […]