Lagos — Manufacturers have alerted the nation about the possibility that fake and sub-standard pens were being supplied to the Nigerian Population Commission for use in the forthcoming national census ...

When 25-year-old Patrick Joseph Frawley Jr. went into the ball-point-pen business in 1949, he could not have picked a worse time. The market was flooded with pens; bankers warned against writing ...

It seemed like an innocuous question: “Why can’t China make a good ballpoint pen?” But it carried a much deeper meaning thanks to the man who asked it: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. At a seminar in ...