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GM To Pay $35 Million U.S. Fine For Delayed Response

General Motors Co was slapped on Friday with a $35 million U.S. fine for its delayed response to an ignition switch defect in millions of vehicles, as federal regulators accused a long line of company officials of concealing a...

Tough Time For Dubai Travellers As Emirates Reduces Flights

Many Nigerian travellers to Dubai, a popular business and holiday destination, may find themselves taking the long route there in the summer peak season which has just begun as Emirates Airline, which usually operates two direct flights daily into...

Global Shares, Peripheral Bonds Hit By Growth Worry

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Global shares fell for a third day on Friday, on course for their longest losing streak in over a month, and yields on lower-rated euro zone bonds rose as a gloomier economic picture in Europe led investors to shed...

GSK Case A ‘Warning’ To All Foreign Firms In China: Xinhua

Corruption charges against GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK.L) executives in China are a warning to other foreign firms and could do irreparable damage to the British drugmaker's Chinese operations, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday. Chinese police charged GSK's former...

Bitcoin Foundation Hit By Resignations Over New Director

As the most prominent trade group pushing adoption of the electronic currency Bitcoin begins its annual conference on Friday, it is being roiled by controversy. At least 10 members of the nonprofit Bitcoin Foundation have resigned over last week's election...

Money Laundering: Appeal Court Upturns Ibori’s Acquittal By Justice Awokulehin, Orders New Trial

SAN FRANCISCO, May 15, (THEWILL) – Six years after Justice Marcel Awokulehin sensationally struck out all 170-count charge of money laundering preferred against former governor of Delta State, James Onanefe Ibori by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,...

GSK Exec Caught Off-Guard By China Graft Charges: Sources

GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK.L) executive Mark Reilly had little inkling he would be charged with leading a network of corruption in China's pharmaceutical industry, two sources with ties to the businessman and knowledge of the investigation said. The allegations against the...

U.S. Airline Group Forecasts Rise In Summer Air Passengers

The number of people flying on U.S. airlines will rise this summer, aided by a record level of international travelers, an industry group said on Thursday. Airlines for America, a lobbying association for U.S. airlines, forecasts that about 210 million...

AT&T Turns To Lazard For Advice On DirecTV Deal -Sources

AT&T Inc (T.N) is working with investment bank Lazard Ltd (LAZ.N) as it negotiates a potential takeover of DirecTV (DTV.O), the country's top satellite TV operator, according to people familiar with the matter. AT&T is in active discussions to buy...

EFCC Witness Turns Hostile In Alleged N100m Fraud Suit Against Fani-Kayode

SAN FRANCISCO, May 14, (THEWILL) – Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos was on Wednesday, May 14, 2014 told that a prosecution witness in the trial of a former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode...