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NIGERIA'S former petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke spent about £140,000 on luxury furniture and decorative art in a single day according to prosecutors who testified against her at the ongoing bribery case at London's Southwark Crown Court.

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[1] On August 3 1900, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company was founded by a gentleman named Harvey Firestone. Cashing in on the booming automobile market, Mr Firestone realised the huge potential for tyres

[2] Come 1926, the company opened one of the world's biggest rubber plantations in Liberia, West Africa, spanning over 1m acres. Why Nigeria did not seek a similar facility at independence is totally beyond me

PRESIDENT Donald Trump has set an unprecedented military tradition by sending a small detachment of American troops to Nigeria as part of his ambitious plans to confront Islamist militants operating in the country.

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[1] Nigeria will build 10 ports along our Atlantic coastline at Badagry, Lekki and Apapa in Lagos State, Ayetoro in Ondo State, Warri in Delta State, Brass in Bayelsa State, Port Harcourt and Onne in Rivers State, Calabar in Cross River State and Ikot Abasi in Akwa Ibom State

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has once again waded into the ongoing political spat in Rivers State asking members of the House of Assembly to suspend moves to impeach Governor Siminalayi Fubara so a political solution can be found.

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[1] China - Up until a few year’s ago, China was mankind’s most populous nation and the current jet setter in terms of innovative and technological development. Before the end of the 21st century, I can see them taking humanity to unimaginable heights

SUPER Eagles midfielder Frank Onyeka has joined the leaders of the English Championship Coventry City on loan until the end of the season with a view towards making the move permanent in the summer.

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[1] I have always regarded the 1851 capture of Lagos as the date when the British colonisation of Nigeria began. That was the year when John Beecroft the British consul of the Bights of Benin and Biafra, lined up his naval gunboats off the coast of Lagos and forced Oba Akintoye to sign a treaty of protection handing over the city to Britain

NIGERIA'S University of Lagos and the UK's University of Birmingham have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on transnational education engagement that will see the two institutions collaborate in the area of student and staff exchange.

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[1] Lagos State: Our commercial capital currently accounts for about one quarter of Nigeria's gross domestic product (GDP) and one third of non-oil GDP. However, we need to build on it and turn Lagos into an international financial centre that matches London which generates $650bn a year or New York which generates $1.4trn a year.