July 2025

  • Trump reaches sweeping trade deal with EU

    President Donald Trump and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen Sunday announced they had reached a deal to end a transatlantic tariffs standoff and avert a full-blown trade war. The agreement came as the clock ticked down on an August 1 deadline for the European Union to strike a deal with Washington — or face…

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  • Good evening from MEZIESBLOG! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers: 1. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday hosted members of the 1999 Class of Governors at the State House, Abuja, in a symbolic reunion that celebrated their shared political journey at the inception of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. The delegation, led by former Edo State Governor, Chief…

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  • Garba Shehu trashes Adesina’s comment over Buhari’s foreign medical trips

    Garba Shehu, former media aide to the late President Muhammadu Buhari, has countered the claims of his former colleague, Femi Adesina, on Buhari’s foreign medical trips. Shehu said Buhari’s regular medical trips abroad were not a rejection of Nigeria’s healthcare system but a matter of personal preference. The ex-presidential media aide made this clarification during…

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  • President Bola Tinubu is set to honour no fewer than 210 ex-corps members at the President’s National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Honours Award for 2020 to 2023 service years. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja by NYSC’s Director of Media, Mr Emeka Mgbemena. The statement said the award ceremony will…

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  • Coca-Cola to launch soda with cane sugar in the US

    Coca-Cola announced the change days after US President Donald Trump said the iconic soft drink maker had agreed to use cane sugar. Coca-Cola said it will add a cane-sugar version of its trademark cola to its US lineup this fall, confirming a recent announcement by President Donald Trump. Trump said in a social media post last…

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  • President Donald Trump on Friday said Barack Obama committed “criminal acts” but “probably” benefits from the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard last week announced that she was presenting “overwhelming evidence” to the Department of Justice showing that then-President Obama and his national security team laid the groundwork for a “yearslong”…

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  • Trending news across Nigeria today

    Good evening from MEZIESBLOG! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers: 1. Newly elected National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, has pledged to work with all stakeholders to unite, strengthen, and expand the ruling party. Yilwatda gave the assurance during his acceptance speech at the 14th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting…

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  • Eko Electricity Distribution Company has announced a 25-day blackout in parts of Lagos State. Eko DisCo disclosed this in a notice to customers on Friday posted on its X account. According to EKEDC, the blackout would commence on 28th July and last until August 21st, 2025, between 8am and 5pm daily. The Disco explained that…

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  • Organizational Levers for Sustainable Competitive Advantage at Tesla

    Tesla’s strategic decision areas encourage managers to maintain best practices that are capable of improving operational success and efficiency, productivity levels, profitability and competitive advantage (Porter., 2008; Kehoe & Wright., 2010). To achieve these goals against stiff competition with global market contenders like General Motors (GM) and Toyota Motors Corporation, Tesla’s technology innovation—in line with…

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  • Models of employment

    Models of employment

    3.1 Models of Employment In recent years, companies have adopted different models of employment to properly adjust with challenges in the business environment. These models are discussed below:

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  • HR Strategies and Organizational Performance

    In 2015, Tesla Motors partnered with Quatrics to design and implement innovative HR strategies that significantly increased organisational performance and profits against New York Times’ 2013 “controversial” review on Tesla Model S (Campbell., 2013; Carr., 2015) which led to huge financial losses (Muller., 2013). Series of webinars were also organized to enhance recruitment, talent development,…

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  • Concepts of Strategic HRM

    Human Resource Management has evolved over years, through the industrial revolution, F. W, Taylor’s scientific management, Trade Unionism (TU), human relations movement, and the HR approach which portrays workers as assets or “happy cows that produce more milk” (Taplin & Winterton., 2009; Najdawi et al., 2011). The strategic HRM concepts are as follows: Concepts Features…

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  • Tesla’s HR Ideas and Business Model in China

    Human Resource Management (commonly abbreviated as HRM or HR) refers to an effective, strategic approach adopted by managers to improve employee performance in line with organizational objectives. Innovative leaders are therefore expected to design profit and relationship-oriented management frameworks that are capable of increasing competitive advantage (Schrunder et al., 1994). According to Klerck (2009), the…

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  • Whitaker: Russia, Ukraine must ‘lose something’ to end war

    There’s been “some progress” in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine but “both sides need to be willing to come to the table and give something up” to end the war, U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Matthew Whitaker said on Wednesday. “The previous two rounds of talks, while they didn’t agree to…

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  • Tariffs: Philippine insists US must pay for rice, corn and more

    The Philippines has not removed tariffs on imports from the United States of corn, rice, sugar, fish, pork, and chicken, a senior economic and trade adviser to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Thursday. Frederick Go, Special Assistant to the President for Investment and Economic Affairs, said in a briefing that the details of a…

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  • US govt probing 5 universities over DACA

    The Trump administration said Wednesday that five universities are under investigation for potentially only granting scholarship programs to recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The Education Department’s investigation comes in response to complaints from the Legal Insurrection Foundation’s Equal Protection Project and involves the University of Louisville, the University of Miami, the University…

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