Sentences with phrase «as at last week»

We started in April and as at last week, and we have registered 3.2 million (Nigerians) on top of the 70 million registered voters for the 2015 general elections that we had before.

The INEC Chairman disclosed that as at last week, the Commission had 74 million registered voters, hinting that by projection, the figure could hit between 80 and 85 million by 2019 due to the on - going nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise.

Meanwhile, the paint bucket measurement of the commodity remained at N800 as at last week.

But we know that as at last week, the total receivables that this government is got was one - tenth of what was stated publicly.

As at last week Monday, and two days to go, «out of the 56,762 names deleted, only 14,801 had re-registered,» Mr. Dzakpasu revealed.

Not exact matches

HAVING spent three days at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) confer - ence in Brisbane last week, it is probably appropriate for me to report on the state of the nation, insofar as financial planners are concerned.

Former Viacom senior executive Tom Dooley was named as Dauman's replacement, but he announced last week that he will be leaving the company soon, which leaves a leadership vacuum at the top of Viacom — a vacuum that makes a merger with CBS even more likely, some believe.

The winter storm that battered the East Coast last week was still being felt on Sunday, as passengers stranded at JFK Airport slowly made their way home.

Private - sector economists are pointing to a surfeit of positive data, while Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz remains wary (or, as Poloz himself put it at press conference last week, «decidedly neutral»).

The arguments for participating in such off - the - record briefings are fairly obvious, just as they were for technology titans like Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Apple CEO Tim Cook, who got roped into a tech summit with Trump at the Trump Tower last week.

In the wake of the mass shooting last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, we have heard a familiar refrain from those steadfastly opposing any kind of gun reform: To stop armed students, put armed guards — or teachers «adept at firearms,» as President Trump proposed — in schools.

Just as the capital Kuala Lumpur settles down following a fraught rally last week, at which riot police turned water cannons on supporters of the PM, top U.S. media outlets, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and the New York Times (NYT), have reported yet more scandalous allegations about the country's sovereign wealth fund.

Since House Speaker Paul Ryan cancelled the vote for the Obamacare replacement plan last week, also known as the American Health Care Act, the Nasdaq has risen a quiet 0.2 % at the same time the Dow and S&P 500 slid 0.2 % and 0.8 %, respectively.

Or as newly unemployed AI expert Andrew Ng, who quit his job at Baidu last week, told her: «I think it's fascinating that in a rather short period of time he's inserted himself into the conversation on A.I. I think he sees accurately that A.I. is going to create tremendous amounts of value.»

Deutsche Bank shares dropped more than 3 percent on Thursday morning after reporting lower - than - expected revenue for its first quarter at a time when banking stocks have seen sharp gains after centrist Emmanuel Macron emerged as the winner in the first round of French presidential elections last week.

Speaking in Houston last week at the Circular Summit, Marcelo talked about the early days of her company, and particularly her experiences raising so much money, while also sometimes being underestimated as a woman tech CEO.

A day after berating Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan over the bank's own scandal with phony accounts, Senator Warren took aim Wednesday at Smith, who retired as CEO of the credit reporting agency last week in the wake of the Equifax breach.

As economists at National Bank of Canada showed last week, that is happening too:

I was at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia last week, and it was very clear from my conversations with former DNC chairs, U.S. politicians, Bernie Sanders supporters, business executives, and even celebrities and athletes: a Clinton presidency will be viewed as positive for Canada-U.S. bilateral relations and a major step in the right direction for trade with Canada.

«It is possible that the acquisition of COL is the first step in separating UTX into two entities: a Commercial Operation and a Defense and Aerospace Group,» Howard Rubel, equity analyst at Jefferies, said in a note last week as speculation about a deal being struck by the two companies increased.

As we reported last week, Square filed a document with state regulators in Alaska saying Dorsey owned 28 percent of the company, which was valued at $ 1.6 billion in its last financing round.

A report released last week by Swiss bank UBS singled out Vancouver as being at serious risk of a housing bubble.

Last week at the Upfront Ventures summit in Los Angeles, a number of locals excitedly speculated that Snap's IPO could propel L.A.'s tech ecosystem above New York City's as the # 2 in the country.

As Israeli cybersecurity giant Check Point noted in a post that sounded the alarm last week, the botnet is expanding «at a far greater pace and with more potential damage than the Mirai botnet of 2016.»

In what they said was an attempt to combat «speculation,» authorities last week forced over 200 supermarkets to slash prices, creating chaos as desperate Venezuelans leapt at the chance to buy cheaper food.

It was a volatile close to the third quarter for the stock market, as evidenced by the fact that the Dow fluctuated by at least 100 points in either direction for five days in a row last week.

«Depleting reserves in order to protect the current level of USD / MYR could prove expensive as we head into Fed lift - off later this year,» analysts at Morgan Stanley said in a note last week, noting that the country has among the lowest coverage of external liabilities in Asia.

«I've been spending a fair amount of time in the last few weeks just looking at this and saying, as a small company, how can we hedge more effectively?

When rumours suggesting Larian's bid had been rejected started circulating last week, he at first said it was «disappointing,» but as more details about Fairfax's bid emerged, he appeared to have taken on a new outlook.

Prior week's reading was revised to 218,000 from 215,000, erasing what was originally reported as a 45 - year low Unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits was unchanged at 1.3 percent Colorado and Maine had estimated claims last week, according to the Labor Department

A separate report from the Mortgage Bankers Association showed mortgage applications last week rose to their highest level in nine weeks as interest rates on 30 - year fixed - rate mortgages hovered at their lowest level in more than a year.

Last week, analysts at UBS cited Entresto uncertainty as a reason for their downgrade of Novartis shares to neutral, from buy.

Verizon (vz) closed its $ 4.48 billion deal with Yahoo last week, marking the end of the tech pioneer as a standalone internet company, which was once valued at more than $ 100 billion.

In a keynote address at the Toronto Region Board of Trade last week, Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak pitched Toronto as a city «falling farther behind.»

And if the coming big releases «Jumanji» or «The Greatest Showman» (a Fox movie, by the way) do knock «The Last Jedi» from the top spot in the coming weeks, Disney still earned $ 5 billion - plus at the worldwide box office for the third year in a row (Warner Bros. hit that mark this year for just the second time in its history) and is likely to surpass WB as the top - earning studio at the domestic box office for the year.

As mentioned last week, following the exposure at CES, the company behind it, Emotia, decided a redesign was in order.

It's likely we'll see a showdown at the bank's annual meeting on April 24, and this meeting could prove to be as significant a milestone for big bank shareholder relations as the pay rebuke Citigroup suffered last week.

Although remaining at home in Kalgoorlie following the recent birth of a child, Ms Dimer was exhibiting last week at the Moores Contemporary Art Gallery, as part of a combined Central Desert, Goldfields and South East Western Australia indigenous collection.

Last week at Google's annual developer conference, the search giant detailed more of its AMP project as well as its sister - initiative known as the Progressive Web App (PWA).

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

Last week, President Obama spoke at the Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University and signed an executive order urging the private sector to «share information related to cybersecurity risks and incidents and collaborate to respond in as close to real time as possible.»

During a panel centering on issues of privacy and user data at the Techonomy conference in Half Moon Bay, California, last week, Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick described Facebook, Amazon, and Google as examples of an entirely new breed of global company that, while offering products and services users love, fill those same users with reservations about how the companies operate.

Disappointed exhibitors at last week's Australian Industry Expo 05 were organising a petition as they sought answers from organiser Consolidated Events Australia as to why the Geoff Gallop - endorsed show had failed to live up to expectations.

But whether Bitcoin can actually replace gold (let alone traditional government - backed currency) has been a matter of fervent debate — quite literally, as evidenced by an event last week entitled «Gold Versus Bitcoin,» held at a New York comedy club, in which well - known gold proponent (Jim Rickards debated James Altucher, a self - help author now peddling Bitcoin investment advice under the moniker «crypto - genius.»

Again, as he said last week at his commencement speech at Howard University, he had no expectations that his election would signal a post racial society.

«Education is job one,» said GameStop CEO Paul Raines at last week's event, which primarily served as the training grounds for the retailer's 5,000 managers.

While there has not yet been a tariff on devices such as Apple's iPhone, Cook last week traveled to Washington to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss trade matters.

Erin Bury, managing director of Toronto - based digital marketing agency 88 Creative, last week gave tips on how to properly use platforms such as Kickstarter and IndieGoGo at the Canadian Crowdfunding Summit.

As the New York Times noted last week, Renren, the Chinese social network, went public at a valuation of 86 times its revenue.

As I said, the greenback's been on the decline for most of the year so far, but it slumped to a 13 - month low against the euro last week following European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi's remark that «monetary accommodation» would continue in the European Union (EU) until at least the end of the year.