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Oil prices on mild retreat

Global oil prices retreated Thursday but analysts said losses were limited as dealers focused on…

Diezani Alison-Madueke: I never asked for soft landing

Nigeria's oil minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has debunked all speculations that she was seeking asylum abroad…

Boeing Q1 profit soars

US aerospace giant Boeing reported Wednesday first-quarter net profit soared 38 percent from a year…

Ebola wipes out N8b from Lagos hotels revenue

Kazeem Ugbodaga Hotels in Lagos State lost N8 billion as a result of the outbreak…

Heineken quadruples Q1 profit

Dutch brewing giant Heineken said Wednesday its first quarter profits had quadrupled, boosted by the…

Tesco reports £5.74 billion record loss

Britain's biggest retailer, supermarket group Tesco, announced Wednesday that it had plunged massively into the…

Tokyo's Nikkei closes above 20,000, first time since 15 years

Tokyo's benchmark index closed above 20,000 on Wednesday for the first time in 15 years…

Perfect diamond fetches $22m at New York auction

A "perfect" 100-carat diamond originally mined in South Africa sold for $22.

AfDB presidency: Buhari lobbies for Adesina

General Muhammadu Buhari, the president-elect of Nigeria, has requested the Economic Community of West African…

Oil prices weighed down by supply glut

Oil prices eased on Tuesday as a climate of high crude supplies offsets moves by…