The Nigerian rice conversation and the nexus with food security
Businessam Staff
June 13, 2017
The Rice debate in Nigeria is an intense and fierce one by different players who don’t understand the dynamics and only tend to put out emotional arguments not grounded on facts and logic but aim to score cheap political points. They try to play to the fact that self-sufficiency is a walk in the […]
Should you trust your own judgement when investing?
Businessam StaffJune 8, 2017
Most investors and dart players miss. But simple behavioural nudges can help improve our accuracy so that we’re more on target. Take economist Richard H. Thaler’s oft-cited example of the urinals at an Amsterdam airport: Patrons were making a mess. Their aim was off. Why? Maybe they were distracted, tired, or simply careless. They weren’t […]
London’s big bang banking hub pivots for post-Brexit reinvention
Businessam StaffJune 7, 2017
For 30 years, an army of UBS Group AG traders packed the football-field-sized floors of a building in the City of London’s largest office project. Now teams of laborers in high-visibility jackets are busily transforming the property for a different type of worker. Broadgate, a 32-acre (13-hectare) complex built to accommodate the banks and law […]
Advertisers should follow Vodafone’s lead after Facebook and Google failures
Businessam StaffJune 7, 2017
A major advertiser has become so frustrated with Facebook and Google’s limp attempts to police the content they publish that it has taken matters into its own hands. Vodafone will no longer rely on website “blacklists” drawn up by the social media titans and its own advertising agency. Instead, to prevent its ads appearing next to […]
2017 budget: Springboard to ERGP implementation
Businessam StaffJune 6, 2017
The 2017 Appropriation Bill of N7.441 trillion budget passed by the National Assembly has come at a time when the current administration has merged the budgeting and planning functions into one ministry to create a better and stronger link between annual budgets and the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan. In this report, NIYI JACOBS, therefore examines the […]
Chinese investments in EU – indispensable yet worrisome
Businessam StaffJune 5, 2017
China has been a major investor in Europe over the past decade, pumping money to buy a number of strategic and high-tech assets. But Chinese investments have caused both exultation and trepidation. The European Union has been one of the most-favored investment destinations for China over the past decade, with Chinese firms channeling billions of […]
‘American dream’ may be over for Indians and that is a good thing
Businessam StaffJune 4, 2017
Look up the definition of ‘the American dream’ and Google enlightens you with this: “The ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved.” To illuminate the point, it provides an example sentence: The scapegoating of today’s immigrants makes a mockery of the American […]
Are they dead yet? Experts come together to define the exact moment we die
Businessam StaffJune 3, 2017
Only two things are certain in life: death and taxes. Or so we thought. For, while it might be everyone’s ultimate fate, establishing whether someone has actually ceased to be is a source of some uncertainty, according to world-leading experts on the subject. Now they are gathering for the Euroanaesthesia congress in Geneva in the […]
Why it’s worth paying for an office instead of working from home
Businessam StaffJune 2, 2017
My daily commute is about 30 slow, zombie shuffles between my bedroom and my home office. While I’m grateful to say I have the option to work wherever and whenever I want, I sometimes love-hate my arrangement. Because working from home has a way of slowly sucking away your sanity. I’m a vagabonding writer who’s […]
How UNESCO got it wrong in Africa
Businessam StaffMay 30, 2017
Since 1972, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, has maintained a “World Heritage List” of sites that it deems to have an exceptional value. This list, which aims to preserve the world’s cultural and natural heritage, has sparked global tensions and drawn criticism that it doesn’t give adequate attention to the […]