Nigeria has recovered $85 million in funds from an oil licence deal that had been deposited in Britain, the West African country’s attorney general said. President Muhammadu Buhari has, since taking office in 2015, sought help from several nations to recover money he said was taken from public coffers. It is not immediately clear who […]
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Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama has declared that Nigeria remained steadfast in the fight against corruption and called for close collaborations to fight the menace to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. According to report, Onyeama stated this at an event on “Building Interactive Coalition against Corruption to Achieve the SDGs” co-hosted by Britain, […]
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Mobile operator Vodafone will create 2,100 new customer service jobs across Britain in the next two years as part of an investment drive to improve operations in its home market. The world’s second biggest mobile operator, which competes with BT’s EE, Telefonica’s O2 and Hutchison’s Three in Britain, has been struggling in the market with […]
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Online retailer Amazon is set to create more than 5,000 jobs in Britain this year, the company said on Monday, boosting its investment in the country once more even as it prepares to leave the European Union. Amazon, along with other tech giants such as Google and Apple, has increased its commitment to Britain in […]
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Prime Minister Theresa May said Sunday she will announce details of Britain’s European Union exit plans in the next few weeks, and denied a former diplomat’s claim that the government is “muddled” about Brexit. In her first interview of 2017, May also said Donald Trump had made “unacceptable” comments about women — but stressed she’s […]
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Britain’s economy grew faster than expected in the three months after its vote to leave the European Union, despite concern that uncertainty would weigh on business activity. The Office of National Statistics said Thursday that the economy grew by a quarterly rate of 0.5 percent in the July-September period thanks in particular to the services […]
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The United States, Britain and the UN peace envoy to Yemen on Sunday urged the warring parties in the country’s civil war to declare a ceasefire they said could start within days. The United Nations envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said: “We are here to call for an immediate cessation of hostilities, which will be […]
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The British government said on Monday there is a high threat of attacks against foreigners in shopping areas in South Africa, days after a similar advisory was issued by the United States embassy in Pretoria, Reuters report. “There is a high threat from terrorism. Attacks could be indiscriminate, including in places visited by foreigners such […]
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