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  • Australian Companies to Explore Nigerian Market

    Rio Tinto, along with 10 other Australian companies, have been made part of an Australia-Nigeria Trade and Investment Council to look into possible investment opportunities in Nigeria’s mining, agriculture and financial services sectors. Employees are seen at Rio Tinto Limited Shanghai Representative Office...

    • Posted October 31, 2011
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  • Shell Nigeria Awards $47 Million Line-Pipe Contract To Nigeria’s SCC

    Shell Petroleum Development Co. of Nigeria Ltd. has awarded a contract for line pipes worth over NGN7.8 billion ($47 million) to SCC Nigeria Ltd., a Shell spokesman said Monday. Tony Okonedo, Shell’s Corporate Media Relations Manager, said...

    • Posted October 31, 2011
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    Meet The Mysterious Trading Firms Who Control The Price Of Commodities

    Welcome to the real world of commodities trading. Home to firms like Vitol and Trafigura, who trade more oil than Saudi Arabia and Venezuela can produce. In a new report, 18 Reuters’ reporters and editors profiled 16 giant...

    • Posted October 31, 2011
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  • The Battle for lost grounds of Nigeria’s sovereign wealth

    In this maiden edition of ‘From our Economics Desk’, we take a look at one of the most topical issues in Nigeria – the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF). While political battles are being fought over the Fund’s...

    • Posted October 31, 2011
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  • Lagos to deliver more housing projects – Bosun Jeje

    Lagos State government is set to deliver more housing projects following the recent commissioning of Sir Otedola Housing Estate at Odoragunshin in Epe, to Ijaiye Housing Estate, Elegant Court in Ikota and Hon Rotimi Sotomiwa Estate in...

    • Posted October 31, 2011
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  • How UK Goverment drove out Arik Air from the Abuja-London Route – Arumemi-Ikhide

    Arik Air, one of Nigeria ’s flag carriers designated on the London route by the Federal Government has given graphic details of how the United Kingdom government, in a bid to protect its carriers, tactically drove it...

    • Posted October 29, 2011
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  • Google’s Big Video Push Is Here: YouTube Getting More Than 100 New Channels

    Google is launching more than 100 new YouTube channels with exclusive video content commissioned from media companies and celebrities. Providers with their own channels will include Thomson Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, comedy magazine The Onion, Jay-Z,  Ashton Kutcher, Deepak Chopra, Shaquille O’Neal (who will have a comedy channel),...

    • Posted October 29, 2011
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  • Globacom connects Babcock University to Glo1

    Telecom giant, Globacom has announced connection of  Babcock University to its international submarine cable, the Glo 1. Head of Glo 1 Enterprise Solutions, Folu Aderibigbe, said the connectivity would provide fast and reliable Internet services to the...

    • Posted October 29, 2011
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  • Samsung Overtakes Apple as World’s Biggest Smartphone Seller

    Samsung Electronics Co. overtook Apple Inc. in the last quarter to become the world’s largest smartphone vendor amid a widening technology and legal battle between the two companies. Samsung shipped 27.8 million smartphones in the last quarter,...

    • Posted October 28, 2011
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  • Etisalat Signs Agreement with Alcatel-Lucent on Mobile Broadband

    Alcatel-Lucent,  in partnership with mobile phone operator  in the United Arab Emirates,  Etisalat  have  signed an agreement to jointly develop the most efficient and sustainable means to deliver mobile broadband to customers . Built around the Alcatel...

    • Posted October 27, 2011
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