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Royal Dutch Shell is pushing ahead with plans to explore for oil in the Arctic Ocean near Alaska this summer despite opposition from environmental groups. The Anglo-Dutch oil major is preparing "an armada of 25 vessels" to begin a two-year...

Finland's Nokia (NOK1V.HE) reported quarterly profits well below market forecasts at its telecom network equipment business, sending its stock tumbling 9 percent and raising concerns over its planned takeover of smaller rival Alcatel-Lucent (ALUA.PA). With Nokia shares now trading about...

Microsoft Corp is targeting $20 billion in annual revenue from its cloud-computing businesses by the end of fiscal 2018, Chief Executive Satya Nadella said on Wednesday, signaling a tripling of such revenue in three years. The world's largest software company...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 30, (THEWILL) – Controversial Itsekiri youth leader, Chief Ayiri Emami, has called on President-Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, to probe and scrap the multi-billion dollar Amnesty Programme designed for ex-militants in the Niger Delta region. Emami, who recently...

THE internal crisis that culminated in the defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the general elections has deteriorated. This came as the party’s caucus in the House of Representatives, yesterday, urged All Progressives Congress (APC) to be more...

In May 2000, the British Broadcasting Corporation asked me to contribute an online opinion piece that would x-ray the prospects for socio-economic progress on the African continent. The BBC’s commission was triggered by a series of articles in major...

Nigeria is near bankruptcy. The outgoing government of President Goodluck Jonathan acts in a fashion that would drive any private enterprise into bankruptcy. While the private sector is tightening its belt and learning to live with a myriad of new...

Aminu Waziri Tambuwal is an ebullient young and upwardly mobile Attorney- at -law who rose by dint of hard work, resilience and a certain dosage of mother luck from the benevolent Creator to become a very successful political tactician...

The media has come under scrutiny once more. The most recent is the recent “ban” on the African Independent Television (AIT) a private television station, from covering the activities of Nigerian President-elect General Muhammadu Buhari. Ever since this was...

Since the results of the Presidential election were announced with the emergence of the General Muhammadu Buhari, many people have voiced one form of concern or another. In particular, the results took many people by surprise, especially in the...