Activities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) remained on a bullish trend on Friday with the All-Share Index crossing the 33,000 mark for the first time since June 2015. NAN reports that the index, being led by Oscar Onyema (pictured), grew by 338.70 points or 1.03 per cent to close at 33,276.68 against 32,937.98 achieved […]
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Rafael Nadal will face Swiss Stan Wawrinka in Sunday’s showpiece match at the French Open Final. After demolishing Austrian Dominic Thiem, Nadal moved to within one victory of ‘La Decima’ at the Grand Slam. Thiem a rising star, who had beaten Nadal in Rome slumped 6-3 6-4 6-0 in Friday’s second semi-final at Roland Garros. The […]
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British Prime Minister Theresa May will ask Queen Elizabeth for permission to form a government on Friday. May’s Conservative Party lost its parliamentary majority days before talks on Britain’s EU departure are due to begin. Confident of securing a sweeping victory, May had called the snap election to strengthen her hand in the European Union […]
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A Jos Upper Area Court on Thursday dissolved the marriage between 27-year-old Rukayat Ahmed, an NYSC member, and Alkasim Ahmed, following a petition filed by the former. Rukayat, a resident of Jos, had approached the court seeking the dissolution of the marriage on the grounds that she was no more in love with Alkasim. The […]
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Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing said on Thursday that 340 megawatts of electricity would be added to the national grid on or before December. Mr. Fashola said this during his inspection tour of Afam Power Plant in Oyibo local government area of Rivers as part of Federal Government Power Sector Recovery […]
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Google says it is supporting a digital journalism initiative to train 6,000 African journalists within the next nine months. Daniel Sieberg, the head, training and development, Google News Lab, made this known in a statement issued on Thursday in Lagos. Sieberg said that the training would be done in collaboration with the World Bank and […]
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