Securities regulators charged an Illinois-based investment adviser on Wednesday with using LinkedIn and other social media networking websites to lure investors by offering more than $500 billion in fake securities. The Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that Anthony Fields, 54, of Lyons, Illinois, made the fraudulent offers to sell securities […]

Nigeria’s labour unions have called for a nationwide strike on Monday over the government’s removal of fuel subsidies. Protesters have been out in parts of the country complaining that the rise in petrol prices has severely affected their cost of living. In its defence, the government says that the billions […]

Nigeria’s main trade unions on Wednesday called for a national strike and mass demonstrations to shut down sectors such as oil production starting from Monday, unless the government restores a fuel subsidy it scrapped at the start of the week.  “If the government fails to do so, they direct that […]