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    Business Nigeria Going After Tax Defaulters Who Say ‘Catch Us If You Can’ –

    Nigeria’s finance minister plans to drag tax defaulters who don’t make use of an amnesty to court as she seeks funds to plug the nation’s $25 billion infrastructure gap. In the nine months of reprieve ending March, some penitent taxpayers have said “you got me” and cleared arrears without paying...
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    Sports Sanchez, Pogba, De Bruyne Lead Highest-Paid EPL Players (See Top 10) –

    Alexis Sanchez’s move from Arsenal to Manchester United, has seen him become the highest-paid player in the English Premier League. Sanchez moved to Old Trafford, with Henrikh Mkhitaryan moving the other way in an extraordinary swap deal. The Chilean has penned a £350,000-a-week contract with …...
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    Sports Real Madrid Football Academy To Commence In March 2018 In Rivers –

    Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers said on Tuesday that the management of Real Madrid Football Club would lay the foundation for the construction of the Real Madrid Football Academy in Rivers state by the first week of March 2018. The Governor who dropped the hint in Port Harcourt in … via...
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    Sports CHAN: Home Eagles spank Equatorial Guinea 3-1 to reach quarter-finals –

    Home-based Super Eagles A brilliant second-half display has earned the home-based Super Eagles team a place in the quarterfinals of the ongoing African Nations Championships, CHAN taking place in Morocco. Nigeria started on the backfoot but rallied early enough in the second half to secure a 3-1...
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    Business Nigeria needs N500bn to complete Second Niger Bridge, Lagos-Ibadan road projects –...

    Nigeria’s government is proposing to raise infrastructural bond as part of efforts geared toward bridging the high infrastructural deficit bedeviling the country. Recommendatiins on the need to explore the huge capital locked up in the pension … via BusinessDay : News you can trust –...
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    Business Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo wants to keep you safe around the web –

    DuckDuckGo is launching updated versions of its browser extension and mobile app, with the promise of keeping internet users safe from snooping “beyond the search box.” The company’s flagship product, its privacy-focused search engine, will remain the same, but the revamped extension and app...
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    Sports Transfer news: Sir Alex Ferguson meets Sanchez –

    Departing Arsenal forward, Alexis Sanchez, was on Monday met by Sir Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford ahead of his move to Manchester United. The Chilean international was completing the second part of his medical ahead of his transfer from the Emirate Stadium and the deal could be announced in …...
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    Business Uber Eats acquires Ando, the food delivery startup from David Change that makes its own...

    As food delivery hopefuls like Deliveroo and Amazon get more involved in the making of food themselves, Uber’s food delivery branch Uber Eats has made an acquisition that could see the company also producing more of the product it’s bringing to its customers. Ando — the delivery-only...
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    Sports CHAN 2018: How Dalung’s Directive On Full Bonus Payment Spurred Eagles To Victory.

    IBEH GODWIN ONYEWUCHI The Honourable Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Barrister Solomon Dalung, provided the big impetus that steered the Super Eagles to a 1-0 victory over Libya on Friday at the 5th African Nations Championship, which has now taken the team close to a place in the...
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    Business NNPC intensifies search in Sokoto, other basins, targets huge investment in oil & gas –...

    The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is intensifying search for oil in the Sokoto and other basins stressing that it is eyeing massive investments in the nation’s Oil and Gas Industry with a view to improving the nation’s revenue and creating jobs for the citizenry. … via...
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    Business Tony Elumelu Foundation To Empower Over 200 Entrepreneurs In Taraba –

    The Tony Elumelu Foundation on Friday urged the people of Taraba State with good business ideas to apply for support from the foundation to actualise their dreams. The Chairman of the foundation, Mr Tony Elumelu, disclosed this through a live streaming Facebook interaction with prospective...
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    Business Shipping Charges: NSC Moves To Recover N1trn From Terminal Operators –.

    By Yusuf Babalola, Lagos The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), the country’s certified ports economic regulator, has begun moves to recover over N1 trillion Shipping Line Agency Charges (SLAC) levied and collected illegally from Nigerian shippers by shipping companies. A competent source in the...
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    Business Bitcoin crashed because professionals cashed out, making a buck from last-minute amateur...

    The largest cryptocurrency bitcoin surged to $20,000 in December. Its rapid growth was due to common folk deciding to invest in the hope of making a quick buck. It was a time for professional investors to sell. “Many people behind bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as a whole understand that the...
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    Business Bitcoin 101: Your essential guide to cryptocurrency –

    Thomson Reuters Bitcoin is everywhere. The cryptocurrency is seemingly in the news every day as investors and businesses try to understand the future of this digital finance. But what is Bitcoin all about? Why is it suddenly on every financial news program? And what does it mean to you? Find …...
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    Business GTBank raises USSD transaction limit to N500, 000 –

    GTBank, one of Nigeria’s most innovative commercial banks has again raised the bar on USSD by setting transaction limits at N500, 000, said a source close to the matter. The new limit means that customers are able … via BusinessDay : News you can trust – http://ift.tt/2DwFkLY by FRANK...
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    Business Samsung patents phone with in-display camera –

    The bezel-less phone display battle has already started but the fighters remain ill-equipped to handle it. OEMs have scrambled to redesign their phones, some more or less ending up in failure. Samsung somewhat missed its chance when the in-display fingerprint sensor didn’t make it in time. But...
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    Business Why Kenya is tailing Nigeria as Africa’s Silicon Savannah –

    Over the past few years Kenya and Nigeria have risen through the ranks in the technology space, booting South Africa out of its previously held. Innovations like Safaricom’s M-Pesa and Kenya’s Ushahidi and Nigeria’s fin-tech startup Interswitch, which is a few zeros away from unicorn status...
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    Business UBA Plc Board Meeting to Assess Financials, Dividend Payment –

    PAN-African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has announced its upcoming board meeting, slated for Monday, January 29, where the board will consider the financial statements for the financial year ended 31 December 2017, and also proposals for final dividend for the year...
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    Business As China cracks down on bitcoin, Indian cryptocurrency exchanges wait and watch – bitcoin –...

    The Indian government does not like bitcoins, but unlike its Chinese counterpart, it is in no hurry to clamp down heavily on virtual currencies. Once home to the world’s largest community of bitcoin traders, China is now reportedly considering blocking access to local and offshore platforms that...
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    Business AfDB pulled Nigeria out of recession, says Adesina –

    Akinwumi Adesina • Pledges to raise portfolio to $8b next year • Opens first office outside headquarters in Abuja in 54 years The African Development Bank (AfDB) yesterday said its $1 billion emergency lifeline approval support to Nigeria last year was what helped … via The Guardian...
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