Nike Shares Jump After higher Prices Help Profit Beat Estimates
Nike store. Picture: REUTERS NIKE shares rose the most in a year after the world’s largest maker of athletic gear beat first-quarter earnings estimates, helped...
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Global Equities End Turbulent Week On A High Note
Picture: THINKSTOCK NEW YORK — Global equity markets and the dollar rose on Friday, ending a rocky week on an upbeat note after Federal Reserve...
Oromia Coop Bank Installs New Guard At The Helm
The surviving board of directors of Cooperative Bank of Oromia (CBO) has installed this morning a new but acting guard at the helm, under...
Belgrade Announced As Venue For The 2016 WYSE Travel Confederation Conference
(Posted 25th September 2015)The city of Belgrade in Serbia has been announced as the WYSTC 2016 host destination The World Youth Student and Educational (WYSE)...
BBC Apologize To Zaha Hadid For Hostile Interview
Zaha Hadid puts phone down on Radio 4 interview BBC apologises after Radio 4 Today programme wrongly claims 1,200 migrant workers have died building her...
Human Rights Group Accuses Rwanda of Abuses
Men sit in the Gikondo transit center in Kigali, Sept. 24, 2015. Human Rights Watch accused the Rwanda government of rounding up “undesirables,” including beggars...
At Meeting of African Presidents, Ban Highlights Importance of Urban Planning As Tool For Development
An overview of Mathare slum, Nairobi, Kenya. Photo: UN-Habitat/Julius Mwelu Speaking at a presidential dialogue on the African Urban Agenda at United Nations Headquarters in...
Muslim Must examplifier Season of Tolerance and Good Governance – Happy Eid -el-Kabir
The Afrika market editor-in-Chief/Publisher ,Mr Jide Adesina uses this season to urged the Muslims to join hands with government to move the country forward and to fight...
EU Hails Return of Burkina Faso’s Interim Leader After Coup
The European Union hailed the return to power Wednesday of Burkina Faso’s interim president Michel Kafando after a week-long coup by renegade troops. “President Kafando’s...
EU Interception of Harmful Products From Ghana Damages Trust
The interception of some harmful organisms in some exported products from Ghana by the European Union meant that the exporter did not follow standards testing...
Local Partners Undervalued in Humanitarian Work – Red Cross
In Afghan villages, committees of grandmothers have been teaching younger women about health during pregnancy and advising them to visit clinics, leading to a fall...
THE JESUITE POPE AND THE CHALLENGES OF THIS GENERATION
Why does Pope Francis stir respect, even love, in the hearts of millions, including non-Catholics? Like other Christians, I look to Francis for spiritual leadership....
Egypt Pardons Journalists Mohamed Fahmy, Baher Mohamed
Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned jailed Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, along with 100 prisoners, the presidency and official media...
Commonwealth Games to Prioritise Youth-Empowerment
The Durban 2022 Commonwealth Games seeks to boost the skills of young people in South Africa.(SABC) South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) President...
President Buhari Travels to New York Tomorrow
President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Nigeria for New York, United States, tomorrow for series of meetings and interactions with notable world leaders within and on...
Europe Has ‘Alarming’ Rates of Smoking, Drinking, Obesity: WHO
Just under 60% of people in the WHO’s European region are either overweight or obese, and 30% use tobacco. Some 11ℓ of pure alcohol is...
Bill Cosby is Looking For A Defense Lawyer
Bill Cosby (AP) Bill Cosby is seeking to hire a criminal defense lawyer as prosecutors near Philadelphia revisit a 2005 sexual-assault complaint. Lawyer Edwin Jacobs...
Daewoo E&C Supports Nigerian Schools
Students at Ebubu Community Secondary School hold a banner during a ceremony to celebrate renovation of its library in Eleme, southern Nigeria in May....
Bashir Drops Plan To Attend UN General Assembly
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir. By MOHAMMED AMIN IN SUMMARY President Bashir had vowed last month that he will attend the meetings, noting that the US had...
Security Increased in Northeast Nigeria Over Boko Haram Eid Fears
STOPPED IN ITS TRACKS: A tank abandoned by Boko Haram terrorists in an advance by the Nigeria military. File photo Image by: Picture: EMMANUEL AREWA/AFP...