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China Agrees $2-Billion Infrastructure Deal With Equatorial Guinea

China's biggest lender by assets, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, said on Wednesday it had signed an infrastructure pact worth $2 billion with the oil-rich west African nation of Equatorial Guinea. The agreement was signed on Tuesday following a...

Indonesia Executes Drug Traffickers, Sparks Anger From Australia, Brazil

An Indonesian firing squad executed eight drug traffickers, including seven foreigners, in the early hours of Wednesday, sparking condemnation from Australia and Brazil who had made final, desperate pleas to save their nationals. The mass execution cements the hard line...

Alibaba’s Ma Says Freezing Hiring After Growing ‘Too Quickly’: Report

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is freezing hiring for the rest of the year because it has grown "too quickly", Executive Chairman Jack Ma told staff. "Alibaba has really developed too quickly ... this year our entire group...

Britain Issues Burundi Travel Warning After Protests In Capital

Britain warned its citizens on Wednesday to avoid "all but essential travel" to Burundi, where protesters have taken to the streets of the capital for four straight days to protest at President Pierre Nkurunziza seeking a third term. Since Sunday,...

OPINION: ANOTHER APPROACH TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN ATTACKS

The destructive attacks in South Africa on Nigerians and other sub-Saharan Africans are tragic and mindlessly wrong. The assaults sorely bruise the objective of inter-African harmony. They also put an eraser to the idyll of progress and domestic tranquility...

OPINION: OPEN LETTER TO APC

From the innermost chambers of my heart I want to celebrate all the leaders of APC, from the commonest members to the President-Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari. I appreciate all of you for taking the Bull by the horns to...

OPINION: INTEGRATION IS THE OPEN SECRET TO DERADICALIZATION

One of the most troubling developments resulting from the escalation of violent extremism in the Middle East is the rise in the number of Muslims from the West who are joining the ranks of jihadist groups, notably ISIS. Western...

OPINION: FETISHISM, VOTE BUYING, CARD READERS AND THE NIGERIAN ELECTIONS

It has often been said that elections in Nigeria have always been issues concluded for the electorate by a few strong men, most times, in the wee hours of the morning, and the rigmarole of voting, counting and winning...

OPINION: BLUE IS THE COLOUR OF BEST

In today’s column I have decided to fundamentally depart from any discussion of a hard core subject matter such as human and/or natural disasters like the Nepal Earthquake that recently killed nearly four thousand people (may their souls rest...

Tinubu: I Didn’t Beg Bode George For Forgiveness

SAN FRANCISCO, April 28, (THEWILL) – The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, Tuesday, said he sought no forgiveness from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Southwest Vice-chairman, Chief Bode George, because no forgiveness was...

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