Arunma Oteh did not need to consult her senior management staff at SEC in order to unilaterally approve a N 500 billion AMCON bond. Is this because she is some sort of Amazon Wonderwoman? No, she has a degree from Harvard!   The House Committee’s investigation unraveled deep insight into the lackluster management style of Ms. Oteh. For instance how she bypassed her senior management team in everything from hiring contract workers to a N [...]

Samsung has set up over $4 million in prizes, in $30,000 to $200,000 increments, to be awarded to app developers in its Smart App Challenge 2012 contest. The idea is to promote great apps created specially for the Galaxy Note and Galaxy Tab series devices, whose larger-than-phone screen sizes don’t usually get love from the Android community.   The general Note and Tab apps are to be judged on popularity — number of downloads and [...]

The Jars II is a simple puzzle game based on basic mathematical logic. The bar serves Draft Beer. Some customers demand that a certain exact quantity of beer be placed on their table. Unfortunately, the bar does not have a pint or quart measure to draw the exact quantity from the cask. It however has 2 jars which hold exactly 5 and 3 pints. The first exercise is to draw 4 pints. The second and [...]

Chip and solar panel equipment supplier Applied Materials Inc. will cut about 250 jobs and relocate manufacturing for its solar wafer systems from Switzerland to Asia, the company said Thursday.   In a regulatory filing, Applied (Santa Clara, Calif.) said its board of directors approved the plan to restructure its Energy and Environmental Solutions (EES) unit in light of challenging industry conditions affecting the solar photovoltaic (PV) and light-emitting diode (LED) equipment markets. The actions [...]

Airtel Kenya has donated 200 phones to the Police Post in Coast province. The phones will be bundled with golden numbers. A golden number is a special number with digits that are easy to recall from memory in times of need and emergencies. The partnership will cover all police stations, police posts and patrol bases in the Coast Province.   Explaining why Airtel took up this initiative, Airtel Kenya managing director Mr. Shivan Bhargava said, [...]

Aham lives in Atu, a village in Osimiri in Nigeria.  Atu is peaceful with energy of a typical African tropical climate. Boys and girls enjoy life in this agrarian society. Bird hunting was part of fun.  But one day, Aham and his friend, Uche, had gone for bird hunting in a forest few miles away from the village square. While in the forest, Uche was bitten by a very poisonous snake, avuala, and in the [...]

Oil giant, Total said on Friday it could stop a gas leak discovered on April 3 in Nigeria’s southern Niger Delta in a few days if its plan to pump heavy fluid into the well to stop the flow was successful.   The leak occurred on a block that also contains crude oil in Rivers state, one of the three states that make up the Niger Delta, a vast oil-rich wetlands region in the southeast. [...]