Nigeria loses N1.3trn over decline in crude revenue
22/05/2014Nigeria lost N1.292 trillion in one year, as the country’s crude oil earnings dipped by 15.92 per cent to N6.825 trillion in 2013. This, according to data obtained from the.
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Mugabe ‘No Longer Fit to Govern’ Zimbabwe?
20/05/2014Reports of prostate cancer, an eye cataract, knee problems and a generally failing health due to old age have raised concerns about the 90-year-old’s ability to provide effective leadership to.
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Football legend Patrick Vieira and Western Union Lends Support To UNICEF Education Project In Senegal
19/05/2014Global money transfer service, Western Union, has partnered former French national soccer team captain, Patrick Vieira, to lend support to UNICEF’s projects in schools within Dakar, Senegal’s capital city. Such.
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Nigeria’s Diamond Bank Issues $200m Eurobond
19/05/2014Nigeria financial institution Diamond Bank has successfully issued Eurobonds worth $200 million and with a maturity of 5 years, demonstrating a global acceptance of the bank’s growth efforts. “The successful.
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World Leaders Adopt Strategy to Tackle Boko Haram
19/05/2014African and Western leaders have agreed to combine their intelligence information and defence mechanisms in a bid to reduce the security risk posed by Boko Haram and other terrorist groups..
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Analysis: How Social Media ‘Twitter’ Built Global Outrage On Abduction of Nigerian Girls
15/05/2014The international vortex of tweets that brought huge global attention over the missing schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents, is fast ebbing, drawing worried concerns to the fickle nature of.
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Liberians Encouraged on Economic Growth
15/05/2014The Governor of the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) Dr. J. Mills Jones has called on entrepreneurs and small enterprises to focus on locally produced merchandise. Governor Jones said: “Doing.
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Entertainment: African Music Stars Nominated for BET U.S. Awards
15/05/2014Nigeria’s Tiwa Savage and Davido alongside South Africa’s Mafikizolo, Ghana’s Sarkodie, Togo’s Toofan and Tanzania’s Diamond Platnumz have been nominated for the Best International Act in Africa. Nigerian-British actor Chiwetel.
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African Nations Name World Cup Squads
14/05/2014CAMEROON Cameroon coach Volker Finke unveiled his preliminary 28-man squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ starting on 12 June. Cameroon are competing in their seventh World Cup finals,.