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Nigeria Seeks Bids For Assets Of Ailing Telecom Company Nitel

Nigeria is seeking buyers for the assets of distressed state-owned former telecom monopoly Nitel, the state-appointed liquidator said on Monday. Nigeria opted to wind up Nitel in March after almost a decade of struggling to sell it, due to the...

Capital Market Conference Focuses On Stakeholders’ Role In Integrated Market

BusinessDay, Nigeria’s leading business and financial newspaper, is set for the 4th edition of the Annual Capital Market Conference which holds on June 26, 2014 in Lagos. With the theme, ‘West African Capital Market Integration: Challenges & Opportunities for Nigerian...

World Stocks Inch Towards All-Time High

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World shares were within touching distance of an all-time high on Monday, spurred on by the combination of record low global interest rates and the improving health of major economies. European markets opened on the front foot again, looking for...

Amazon Expands Middleman Role In Latest Online Payments Push

Amazon.com Inc will start managing subscription payments for start-ups and other companies - the latest in a series of quiet moves the e-commerce giant has made into PayPal's turf over the past year. The service, which launches on Monday, allows...

Japan’s Economy Picks Up Speed On Unexpected Surge In Capex

Japan's first quarter growth handily beat initial estimates on an unexpected surge in capital spending, fresh signs the world's third-biggest economy is in better shape to weather a hit to consumption from a sales tax hike. Capital spending, long a...

Cyber Crime Costs Global Economy $445 Billion A Year: Report

Cyber crime costs the global economy about $445 billion every year, with the damage to business from the theft of intellectual property exceeding the $160 billion loss to individuals from hacking, according to research published on Monday. The report from...

I Have No Issues With Nigerian Government, Interpol, Says Kola Aluko‎

BEVERLY HILLS, CA, June 07, (THEWILL) - Kola Aluko, the co-founder of Seven Energy and Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Limited, two companies with vast interest in the Nigerian oil sector, has refuted reports that he is being sought by...

ECB’s Coeure: Rates To Diverge From UK, U.S. For Years

Euro zone interest rates will diverge from those in the United States and Britain for a number of years, European Central Bank (ECB) Executive Board member Benoit Coeure told France Inter radio on Saturday. Speaking after the ECB this week...

Uduaghan, In Germany, Says Industrialization, Private Sector Key To Growing Delta’s Economy

SAN FRANCISCO, June 06, (THEWILL) – A comprehensive package to creating a clement environment for the private sector to thrive and driving investment in technology and industrialization has been unveiled by Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan for the...

Airtel Partners Iphone To Improve Network, Services

Airtel Nigeria has entered into partnership with Iphone, the most sold phone in the world with about 272 million subscribers, in order to improve the quality of the network, products, services and infrastructure. Speaking at the launch of the new...