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Mastercard Sees Double-Digit Growth In China On E-Commerce: Executive

Global payment operator MasterCard Inc (MA.N) sees double-digit annual growth in credit card transaction volumes in China, lifted by the booming e-commerce industry in the world's second-largest economy, a senior executive told Reuters on Monday. China's plan to open up...

Japan Relapses Into Recession In July-September, A Blow To “Abenomics”

Japan slipped into its fourth technical recession in five years between July and September - spotlighting how the government's "Abenomics" policies have struggled to drag the economy out of chronic stagnation. Official data on Monday showed the world's third-largest economy...

Nigeria Delays Deadline For South Africa’s MTN To Pay $5.2 Bln Fine

South African mobile phone firm MTN Group said Nigeria has pushed back a Monday deadline for it to pay a $5.2 billion fine for failing to cut off unregistered SIM cards until talks with authorities have concluded. The planned fine...

OPINION: NIGERIA’S JUDICIARY…WHINING HER WAIST TO THE BEAT

Robbers enter a house, asks for all the money and valuables. After they collect what they can, they give the man of the house a gun with instructions to shoot his wife or else he be shot himself. The...

OPINION: DASUKI, DSS RASCALITY AND OUR JOURNEY BACK TO THE DARK AGES

In the wake of what we described as the simultaneous invasion of the homes of Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd), the immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA) in Abuja and Sokoto Gestapo-style by men of the Department for State Security...

OPINION: THE IGBO PROBLEM IN NIGERIA

The Igbo problem in Nigeria is that they walk their talk while the Nigerian standard is to stop at talking. A few examples will be enough: Before the war but after the second coup and the pogrom in which thousands...

OPINION: THE CHANGING NARRATIVE OF THE ABA SHOE MAKER

Between the 80s and the early 90s, the Aba shoe industry witnessed an unprecedented boom. Aba shoes made in the popular Ariaria International Market captured the West African and Central African markets such as Togo and Cameroun. The centre...

OPINION: TERROR ATTACKS: BETWEEN NIGERIA AND FRANCE

On the Paris Terror attacks of Friday, have you read any press statement from anyone, blaming the President of France? Instead, everyone is concerned about saving the country. But here in Nigeria, when Dr Goodluck Jonathan was president, you blamed him...

$5.2bn Fine: As Deadline Arrives, MTN Says Hasn’t Asked Nigeria To Stagger Payment

SAN FRANCISCO, November 15, (THEWILL) – As the November 16 deadline arrives for MTN Nigeria to pay the N1.4 trillion ($5.2bn) fine imposed on it by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) over its failure to disconnect 5.2 million unregistered...

France Bombs Islamic State HQ, Hunts Attacker Who Got Away

France launched "massive" air strikes on the Islamic State group's de-facto capital in Syria Sunday night, destroying a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump in the city of Raqqa, where Iraqi intelligence officials say the attacks on Paris...

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