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Wall St. Flat As Investors Await Bank Earnings

U.S. stocks were little changed in muted trading on Monday as investors paused before a busy week of quarterly results from U.S. banks and several Dow 30 companies. JPMorgan (JPM.N) reports on Tuesday, with Goldman Sachs (GS.N), Bank of America...

Oil Slides On Profit Taking And As OPEC Boosts Output

Oil prices tumbled on Monday, as traders took profits after last week's surge to an 11-week high, and on a report that OPEC continued to boost crude production despite a persistent glut. Benchmark Brent crude LCOc1 was down $1.05 or,...

Buhari Forwards Second Ministerial List To Senate For Confirmation

SAN FRANCISCO, October 12, (THEWILL) – President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded a second batch of names to the Senate for confirmation as Ministers of the federal republic. The Senate President, Bukola Saraki in a tweet Monday evening confirmed receiving the...

Police Arrest Olu Falae’s Abductors

The Nigeria Police has arrested five of the eight abductors of former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Chief Olu Falae. The arrest is coming about two weeks after the elder statesman was released in Akure, Ondo State...

Guinea Opposition Leaders Want Election Scrapped, Citing Fraud

All seven opposition leaders who contested Guinea's presidential election against incumbent Alpha Conde said on Monday the result should be annulled because of fraud. Their declaration is likely to stoke tension in the West African country with its history of...

Facebook Pushes Shopping Features In Move To E-Commerce

Facebook Inc (FB.O) wants its users to shop for clothes and other products from their mobile phones without ever leaving its app. In an effort to move further into e-commerce and compete with Amazon Inc’s (AMZN.O) retail offerings, Facebook announced...

Corruption: EFCC Arrests Former Benue Governor, Suswam

BEVERLY HILLS, October 12, (THEWILL) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested the immediate past governor of Benue State, Mr. Gabriel Suswam, on allegations of graft perpetrated during his tenure as governor. Suswam was detained early Monday...

OPINION: ECONOMIC CASE FOR EXPORTING NIGERIAN FOOD ITEMS

I would like to crave the readers’ indulgence to introduce upfront the three motivating factors for this article which are: the recent ban on export of some Nigerian food items to Europe by the European Union (EU) which has...

OPINION: WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS AND NIGERIA

Last week, I attended a seminar organized by a recent graduate from the University of Benin, Ugbowo campus. The theme of the seminar was I NEED TO KNOW.  The young man who organized the seminar said that he was...

OPINION: BUHARI MEETS AGAIN WITH SARAKI; GOVERNANCE JUST KICK-STARTING

Several statements have vehemently proclaimed that Buhari will never recognise Saraki as Senate President. Some expressed he will never hurt Tinubu (his greatest benefactor ever) by embracing Saraki, while others even insinuated that Senator Lawan isn’t anyone’s preferred consensus...

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