NEW DELHI – Bharti Airtel Ltd, India’s biggest telecommunications company, is in advanced talks to acquire privately-held Loop Mobile India Pvt Ltd, company executives, familiar with...
LONDON – European shares were higher Monday, as buoyant Asian markets helped major stock indexes extend a two-week rally.The Stoxx Europe 600 index was 0.4% higher...
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today made the following statement on the third anniversary of Libya’s pro-democracy revolution: “Canada salutes the courage of the...
ABUJA – Nigeria’s external reserves continued its downswing in 2014 as it dropped to $41.907 billion at the weekend. THIS DAY checks showed that the current...
ABUJA – The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has rolled out sanctions which would be deployed in ensuring compliance to operational codes in the Nigerian Electricity...
ABUJA – Nigeria’s central bank said it has adequate reserves to keep defending the naira as the slumping currency prompted a selloff of the country’s stocks,...
LAGOS – Tragedy was aborted Friday when the door of an Aero Contractors Flight, Aj2002 from Lagos to Douala was found open 30 minutes after take-off....
… Okonjo-Iweala: Economy has $3.6bn buffer against shock ABUJA – The Senate has taken over the forensic audit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) accounts,...
TOKYO – Heavy snow hit Tokyo and other parts of eastern Japan over the weekend, leaving 12 people dead, hundreds of thousands of households without electricity,...
ADDIS ABABA– The Second High Level Meeting of the Africa-EU Energy Partnership was held at Ministerial level on 13th February at the African Union, with calls...