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Toshiba Board To Approve Plans To Split Off Chip Business On Friday: Source

Toshiba Corp's (6502.T) board will meet on Friday to approve plans to make its chip business a separate company and hopes to raise more than 200 billion yen ($1.8 billion) by selling a 20 percent stake in it, a...

Nude Painting Of South Korean President Sparks Violence

SAN FRANCISCO, January 24, (THEWILL) - A nude painting of impeached South Korean president Park Geun-Hye met a violent end at the country’s parliament Tuesday, reports said, as supporters tore the work — which evokes Edouard Manet’s Olympia —...

OPINION: GAMBIA: THE TRIUMPH OF DIPLOMACY AND CONSENSUS

The departure of Gambia’s leader of twenty-two years, former president Yahya Jammeh on the 21st of January, 2017 into exile in Guinea is a good ending to a drama that while it lasted created fear, foreboding and uncertainty, not only...

OPINION: SPRING IN ARMY GENERALS’ STEPS 

Before last month’s heroic capture of the Boko Haram stronghold at Sambisa Forest in Borno State, the Nigerian soldier had not had a good public image for 45 years. The last time soldiers were seen as heroes here was...

OPINION: BUDGET 2017: DELIVERING ELUSIVE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR INCLUSIVE GROWTH

It was on a contagiously sanguine note that the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, rounded his public presentation of the 2017 budget to a select group of stakeholders and journalists December last year: "I wish...

OPINION: OBAZEE, A  SACK LONG OVERDUE

The sack the other day of Mr. Jim Obazee, former Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN), and the dissolution of the Council's Board, shows three glaring anomalies in the system: indiscipline, pursuit of...

Buhari Says He’s Proud Of Nigerian Media

SAN FRANCISCO, January 23, (THEWILL) - President Muhammadu Buhari has lauded the manner Nigerian journalists performed their duties, adding that he is proud of the exploits of the country’s media. In a post on his Twitter handle, @MBuhari, on Sunday,...

Ryan Mason: Hull Midfielder Fractures Skull In Clash Of Heads At Chelsea

Hull City midfielder Ryan Mason has had surgery after fracturing his skull during Sunday's game at Chelsea. Mason, 25, clashed heads with Chelsea defender Gary Cahill 13 minutes into the Premier League match. After eight minutes of treatment on the pitch,...

Emirates To Start Dubai-Athens-Newark Flights, Likely To Irk U.S. Carriers

Emirates plans to start flying to the United States with a stop for passengers in Greece, its second so-called fifth freedom flight and a move that could anger U.S. competitors who accuse it of competing unfairly through state subsidies. The...

The Gambia ‘Missing Millions’ After Jammeh Flies Into Exile

More than $11m (£8.8m) is missing from The Gambia's state coffers following the departure of long-time leader Yahya Jammeh, an adviser to President Adama Barrow has said. Mai Ahmad Fatty said financial experts were trying to evaluate the exact loss. Luxury...

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