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Unidentified assailants killed five people and wounded around 50 others during an attack on Burkina Faso’s military headquarters in the capital Ouagadoug ou on Friday, said government spokesman Remi Dandjinou. Read more via BusinessDay – http://ift.tt/2F94ZYw Get more World News

Nigeria’s first online travel agent, Wakanow, is said to have resolved the financial debt it owed its trading partner, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), as the former is seen paying its debt in bits to the latter, according to a source. Read more via BusinessDay –...

Effective surveillance could have mapped convoy of abducted Dapchi school girls, others The continued attacks by Boko Haram insurgents in some parts of the Northeast, and recent abduction of over 100 school girls from the Government Girls Science and Technical College, Read more via...

From “Sai Buhari” in 2015 to “Kai Buhari” 2018 Three years into his presidency, the goodwill that accompanied President Buhari and his party has almost been extinguished. Many of his supporters who put everything out including their “credibility” to campaign for him are Read more via...

Ibe Kachikwu, Nigeria’s deputy for Petroleum Resources, on Thursday said Nigeria is targeting about $100 billion in investment in the petroleum sector in order to drive the sector to desired height where it provides maximum contribution to the overall growth of the nation. Read more via...

President Donald Trump has been ranked as the worst U.S. President in history in a Presidents’ Day poll of political scientists that ranked all 44 of the people who have served as U.S. president. Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Teddy Roosevelt Read more...

Globacom telecommunications service provider, has been named as the Nigerian Brand of the Year by the Nigerian Television Authority at its Integrity and Service Program (NTA-ISP) award held on Tuesday 13, February 2018 at the Aso Villa, Abuja. Read more via BusinessDay –...

Private equity firms are expanding their investments in secondary school education in Nigeria and across Africa to meet the rising demand for quality education by the country’s expanding middle-class parents. The sharp depreciation in the naira, which has led to a significant rise in Read...

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), on Thursday, sealed the premises of four companies in Port Harcourt and Lagos over tax debts of about N700million. In Port Harcourt, the FIRS enforcement team shut down the premises of SC Industrial Gas Manufacturers Limited Read more via...

As oil price soars high, Nigeria has one of the lowest rig count activities among all Organisation Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), as Nigeria witness a slight fall in its rig count, data obtained from the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, (OPEC) has shown. Read more...

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the solutions being proposed by his government to quell frequent clashes between herdsmen and farmers is not ill-informed nor to colonise any part of the country as being widely suggested. The president was speaking at an audience with Read more via...

Experts have hinged the survival struggle of Konga on the economic downturn faced in Nigeria in 2015 which shook its initial investors’ confidence and subsequently led to drastic devaluation of the company’s worth. Although Zinox Group has refused to disclose the exact amount paid Read more...

If an autopsy could have been performed on Bell Pottinger, Britain’s most audacious public relations firm, the cause of death may have been summarized as “acute embarrassment.” This is ironic because Bell Pottinger always seemed defiantly beyond shame. Read more via NYT > Business Day –...

Black Rhino and Dangote group, the major partners in the proposed 540MW gas-fired Qua Iboe Power Plant (QIPP) located in Ibeno local government of Akwa Ibom State have secured funding the project which is estimated to cost $1.1billion Read more via BusinessDay – http://ift.tt/2E0aY1p Get...

Fitch Ratings, a leading global rating agency in its latest report, has upgraded Access Bank’s National Long-Term Rating to ‘A+ from ‘A. At the same time, Fitch affirmed the Bank’s Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ‘B’. Read more via BusinessDay – http://ift.tt/2nyax85 Get more...

South Africa’s parliament has scheduled a motion of no-confidence against President Jacob Zuma for Feb. 22, the parliament’s speaker said on Friday, following a request from the opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party. Zuma has survived several no-confidence votes during his...

Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun said on Wednesday that the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is presently under recovering costs being the sole importers of the petroleum products which it also sells below cost price. Adeosun explained that the Corporation loses a huge amount of money...

The Kwankwasiya Network has donated 1200 bags of rice to victims of Fulani attacks taking refuge in six Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs camps across Guma and Logo Local Government Areas of Benue State. Founder of the Network and Senator Representing Kano Central, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso...

The world and historically acclaimed International Student Identity Card (ISIC) is now in Nigeria. ISIC is an identity card that entitles the holder to enjoy discounts on goods and services in around 130 countries. ISIC was created in the early ninety fifties by the Norwegian and … via...

It may not be true after all that President Muhammadu Buhari is under pressure to declare a state of emergency in Rivers State as alleged by the governor of the state, Nyesom Wike. Instead, the governor has been accused of being the one courting state of via BusinessDay : News you can trust...