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Private Jets: House of Reps To Begin Probe Of Alison-Madueke, NNPC April 28

Joy Abobi | News Reporter - Apr 13, 2014

Diezani Alison-Madueke, Petroleum Resources Minister has been officially issued a summon by the the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts to a public hearing on...

Economy

World Bank Says Nigeria Ranks 3rd In Countries With Largest Number Of Poor People

Salisu Sulaimon | Sub-Editor - Apr 11, 2014

The President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, has said that Nigeria is one of the top five countries that has the largest...

Economy

IMF Will Not Partner With Proven Corrupt Countries, Says Christine Lagarde

Vanguard - Apr 11, 2014

Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, IMF, Mrs Christine Lagarde, yesterday, said that if there are proven cases of corruption against any country not just...

Economy

Youth Empowerment Centre Trains 100 People To Assemble Smartphones And Tablets In Calabar

Wires | The Trent - Apr 10, 2014

NAN - No fewer than 100 Niger Delta Youths in Calabar on Thursday, April 10, 2014 graduated from the Youth Empowerment Centre. The youth were...

Economy

Tension Among Aviation Workers As President Jonathan’s Reforms Threaten 7,500 Jobs

Wires | The Trent - Apr 10, 2014

Tension reigned across the country’s aviation sector yesterday when news filtered in that over 7,500 various cadres of aviation workers may be unexpectedly thrown...

Economy

Nigerian Senate Passes N4.64 Trillion Budget Into Law

ThisDay - Apr 9, 2014

About four months after the executive laid the 2014 budget before the National Assembly, the Senate Wednesday passed the Appropriation Bill into law. Whereas the...

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Meet The World’s 26 Richest People In Human History, #1 Is Mansa Musa I Of Mali (CLICK)

The Independent UK - Apr 7, 2014

When we think of the world’s all-time richest people, names like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and John D Rockefeller immediately come to mind. But few...

Economy

Good News: Nigeria Becomes Africa’s Largest Economy, GDP Over $500 Billion

Wires | The Trent - Apr 7, 2014

Nigeria has overtaken South Africa as Africa's largest economy after a rebasing calculation almost doubled its gross domestic product to more than $500bn, data...

Economy

Okonjo-Iweala Clarifies World Bank’s Poverty Rating Of Nigeria

Salisu Sulaimon | Sub-Editor - Apr 4, 2014

ABUJA - The minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has ventured to explain the rating of Nigeria as...

Economy

Nationwide Blackout Looms As Electricity Workers Threaten Strike

ThisDay - Apr 2, 2014

The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) yesterday alerted the federal government of plans to cripple operations in the power sector over alleged unfair...

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