Lightspeed Commerce is cutting about 280 jobs, less than two months after its founder returned to the helm of the Montreal-based technology company. After integrating the company’s many acquisitions, “Lightspeed is now entering a new phase, one focused on profitable growth to capture the opportunity in front of us,” said founder and chief executive Dax Dasilva. … Read more
Adetokunbo Abiru, representing Lagos East on the ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has emerged the chairman, Southern Senators’ Forum (SSF). He took over from Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele (APC-Ekiti), who had been the leader of the forum since the ninth Assembly. Mr Abiru, who is the chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, … Read more
Monday Okpebholo, representing Edo Central at the National Assembly, has emerged as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 21 September governorship election in Edo State Gov Bassey Otu of Cross River, who is the chairperson of the APC supplementary primary election, declared Mr Okpebholo the winner of the election on Friday … Read more
The adoption of state police has been proffered as a veritable solution to the pervasive insecurity across the country. This was the submission of state governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at a meeting held in Abuja on Monday. Equally, it was the submission of the Lagos State House of … Read more
Lululemon’s controversial founder Chip Wilson is again facing criticism for his latest remarks regarding the company’s diversity and inclusion efforts. In a recent article by Forbes, Wilson objected to the company’s use of models with a range of body types, whom he said looked “unhealthy,” “sickly” and “not inspirational.” “They’re trying to become like the Gap, everything … Read more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Lyrus Life Sciences’s Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for ‘Methenamine Hippurate Tablets USP, 1 gram’, an AB-rated, substitutable generic version of Hiprex® from Validus Pharmaceuticals LLC which is indicated for prophylactic or suppressive treatment of frequently recurring urinary tract infections when long-term therapy is considered … Read more
