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Nigerian state governors queue for second bailout fund
Nigerian Governors are seeking a new round of bailout from the Federal Government less than a year after the previous one, according reports quoting...
DNA rice breakthrough raises ‘green revolution’ hopes
Rice-growing techniques learned through thousands of years of trial and error are about to be turbocharged with DNA technology in a breakthrough hailed by...
Kanye West claims to be ‘$53m in debt’
The 38-year-old tweeted before appearing on Saturday Night Live in the US: ''Let's dance in the streets. I am consumed by my purpose to...
Volkswagen managers were notified about diesel probe in May 2014, sources
(REUTERS) A high-ranking employee warned senior Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) managers in May 2014 that U.S. regulators might examine car engine software as part of an...
Boko Haram: Not ISIS, But Still a Problem For the West
(NEWSWEEK): In March 2015, Boko Haram declared allegiance to the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) in a move that helped it anchor its international...
Ogonis reject environmental clean-up, demands $1 bn cash instead
Some Ogoni community leaders in the Niger Delta are asking that the $1 billion ear-marked for the clean-up of the oil devastated region be...
CVC confirms tenure of sacked VC’s expires Feb 15
Michael Faborode, the Secretary-General, Committee of Vice-Chancellors (CVC), says that the tenure of vice-chancellors of nine Federal Universities sacked by the Federal government will...
Woman vomits, excretes 80 wraps of cocaine at Abuja airport
A 48 year-old mother of three, Saidat Bola Hassan, on Friday, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja, allegedly vomited fifteen wraps of...
Nigeria’s spending splurge with borrowed cash spells Bond pain
(BLOOMBERG) Record government spending -- and having to borrow to fund almost half of it -- spells trouble for investors in the bonds of...
Nigeria Airspace MD, GMs seized, quizzed by EFCC operatives
Lagos, Nigeria: Following wide spread sleaze in the aviation industry, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday swooped on the Nigerian Airspace...
