OBITUARY

By Tope Adaramola No doubt, death is a necessary end for all mortals and like pilgrims that we truly are,...

  Jack Welch, former Chairman and CEO of General Electric (GE) dead at 84. His death was officially announced by his...

The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) is devastated at the news of the death of its Deputy President, Malam...

On behalf of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), we write to express our deep sense of loss and...

The Board, Management and Staff of Telecom and IT Business Limited; publishers of Africa Telecom & IT has announced...

At "Andersen U.," the lush, 150-acre campus where Arthur Andersen LLP has trained tens of thousands of new recruits, there's a shrinento ethical accounting. A display in the Andersen Heritage Center is devoted to yellowing press clippings of a long-ago campaign to clean up the accounting industry by Leonard Spacek, who led the firm from 1947 to 1963. In one, he accused Bethlehem Steel of overstating its profits in 1964 by more than 60%. In another, he bashed the Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to crack down on companies that cooked their books, saying that at best the regulatory agency has been "a brake on the rate of retrogression in the quality of accounting."