Does this sound like your boss? With so much of our employees' work lives now blending with their personal lives, having the wrong boss can make the work-life blend a liquified hell. Plenty of research states that people leave bosses rather than jobs. While no manager is perfect, certain behaviors may clue you to the reality that you're reporting to a truly toxic boss. As someone who has literally recovered from the physical and emotional trauma stemming from having worked under a stifling, fear-based corporate dictatorship, I've observed five common toxic boss traits or habits that may be present in…

Floods washed away at least two million tons of rice in Nigeria, the second-largest importer of the grain. That is more than 25% of the previously projected national output of 8 million tons, according to estimates by a farmers’ organization. At least 450,000 hectares (1.2 million acres) were destroyed in Kebbi, the country’s main rice-growing state, according to Mr Mohammed Sahabi, state chairman of Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria. Planters had targeted a 2.5 million ton contribution to the national basket, but will now meet less than 20% of the target. Farmers in five other states -- Kano, Nigeria, Enugu,…

Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo has said the country will revisit the $1 million mandatory business capital for Nigerians and other nationals as a requirement for doing business. “The review that you are asking for, why not? if it works in our mutual perspectives, we can take it for granted that your request will be taken seriously. We will have a look at it,” Addo said during a meeting with Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila. Amongst other demands, Gbajabiamila who is on a visit to Ghana over the continued hostilities towards Nigerian residents and entrepreneurs in Ghana,…

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Thursday night announced that it had obtained a prepayment funding of about $1bn to support upstream operations of its subsidiary, Nigerian Petroleum Development Company. It said crude oil prepayment had enabled NNPC to pay NPDC’s tax obligations to Federal Government of about $700m with the balance utilised to fund NPDC’s capital and operating expenditures. NNPC said in a statement issued by its spokesperson, Mr Kennie Obateru, that the prepayment financing was backed by future oil production of NPDC. The corporation said the financing utilises a well-established structure to enable the purchaser of the crude, Eagle…