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World markets dive as Trump sparks trade, North Korea worries

Global stocks sank Wednesday after US President Donald Trump said he was not satisfied with talks that are aimed at averting a trade war with China. Equities were also dented by poor eurozone economic data, and as Trump cast doubt on a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “Trump (is) continuing to drive uncertainty over global trade,” said analyst Joshua Mahony at trading firm IG. “European markets are following their Asian counterparts lower, as a pessimistic tone from Trump is compounded by downbeat economic data,” he added. Markets had surged Monday after US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He said they had agreed to pull back from imposing threatened tariffs on billions of dollars of goods, and continue talks on a variety of trade issues. However, Trump has declared that he was “not satisfied” with the status of the talks, fuelling worries that the world’s top two economies could still slug out an economically pain...

We’re Italy, we’ll qualify’, insists Ventura.

We’re Italy and if we qualify it will be by playing football,” coach Gian Piero Ventura insisted on Sunday on the eve of a crunch World Cup play-off against Sweden in Milan. Four-time world champions Italy need to overturn a 1-0 first-leg defeat to avoid missing out on the World Cup for the first time since 1958. “We need everything tomorrow — tactics, heart and determination,” Ventura told a press conference at the team’s Appiano Gentile training centre north of Milan. The 69-year-old remained jovial and defiant that his troops would be on the road to Russia, adding he was “amazed people are surprised we’re in the play-offs”. “We knew from the moment we picked Spain in the group phase that we’d be heading for the play-offs. Nobody can be surprised we reached this point. “I realise this is the way it works in Italy, but I didn’t expect all this,” he added of the reaction generated by the humiliation of an impending exit. “We started out with people talking ...

Ugochi Ihezue Wins Top Model At Miss World 2017 (Photos) .

MGBN winner Ugochi Ihezue makes history, wins Top Model at Miss World 2017 and advances to top 40 (Photos) MGBN 2017 winner, Ugochi Ihezue just made history after she became the only model in the history of Nigeria to win the Miss World Top Model competition and this booked her place in the top 40 of Miss World 2017 pageant. Here’s what Silverbird wrote on IG; Yasssssssssss…our girl was fasttrack as the miss world top model. Automatically she has advanced to top 40,we are proud of you @mitchelihezue. Congratulations darling. Your top four Nigeria top model Thailand 1st runner up Croatia second runner up PR China third runner up: #missworld#missworld2017 #missnigeria#beautywithapurpose According to the organization, this is the first time for Nigeria to take the coveted Top Model prize. The top 30 were completed by the delegates from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, France, Guadeloupe, Guinea, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Israel...

Army loses three soldiers, clears 13 Boko Haram hideouts in Sambisa.

The Nigeria army says it lost three soldiers after successfully clearing 13 Boko Haram hideouts in the Sambisa Forest in one week. Col. Kinsley Samuel, Deputy Director Public Relations 7 Division of the Army, disclosed this in a statement in Maiduguri on Sunday. Samuel said that six soldiers were wounded during the operation while dozens of the insurgents where neutralised by troops. “Troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE in conjunction with the Nigerian Air Force on Operation DEEP PUNCH has within the past one week embarked on clearance operations to dislodge Boko Haram terrorists from their camps,” he said. He added that the troops successfully cleared the terrorists’ hideouts at Talala, Ajigin, Mangzum, Abagajiri, Kafa, Dusula, Buk, Malumti and Abulam among others. “Furtherance of the clearance operations, the troops on Friday, 10th November 2017 while acting on credible information that the terrorists were massing up at certain camps in fringes of Sambisa forest, adv...

He Was To Get Married On 2nd Of December But Now He Is Late .

As shared by one Facebook user,this man was to get married in December but late now.he died in an accident with his colleagues... May his soul rest in peace May we not experience such tragedy oh God

Nigeria needs $35bn yearly to sustain economic growth-Infrastructure bank MD.

Mr Adekunle Oyinloye, Managing Director, The Infrastructure Bank, has said that Nigeria needed 35 billion dollars per annum for five years to sustain a robust economic growth. Oyinloye, said this in Abuja while presenting a paper on “Economic Indices and Relationship with Infrastructure Development” at a forum for set 1988 Economics Class, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. While speaking on the role of infrastructure in economic development, Oyinloye said capital investments in infrastructure was a reliable avenue for engendering sustainable economic growth and development. “According to the National Integrated Infrastructure Master Plan (NIIMP), Nigeria needs about 35 billion US dollars per annum for a succeeding period of five years to sustain robust economic growth. “That is what we need but we have never gone beyond about 12 billion dollars; so it estimated that the infrastructure funding needs for the next 30 years is in the region of three trillion US dollars. ...

Alex Ekwueme flown abroad for treatment.

The Second Republic Vice-President, Dr Alex Ekwueme, was on Sunday airlifted abroad for further medical treatment. Ekwueme was hospitalised at Memfys Hospital of Neurosurgery, Enugu, for chest inflection on Oct. 29. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the elder statesman departed the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, around 8:30 a.m. on Sunday in a white air ambulance with registration number N605AJ.   However, Memfys Hospital ‎and family sources did not disclose the country where the former vice president would be receiving treatment. NAN reports that some family members accompanied Ekwueme on the medical trip, while others came to bid him farewell. President Muhammadu Buhari had last week approved that Ekwueme should be flown abroad for treatment.

Lawal Dolapo Accuses Yemi Solade Of Demanding Sex From Her For Role. He Reacts .

eteran actor Yemi Solade has reacted after an aspiring actress identified as Lawal Dolapo, accused him of ‘soliciting sex’ from her in exchange for a movie role. This is happening hours after actor Yomi Fabiyi was accused of demanding sex from actress Eniola Omoshalewa for a movie role. An accusation Yomi Fabiyi has denied. According to Lawal Dolapo,pictured above, Eniola Omoshalewa’s revelation gave her confidence to tell her story. She wrote on Instagram: Years ago when the drive to become an actor was high, I believed in myself so much, I was going for auditions, getting call backs and anytime I was called on to set, something about school will set in. Emi Arike, if I’ll sleep with a man for something, then it’s not going to be something I can get by myself.I saw this man’s page, I mean the almighty @yemi_solade and I noticed he had his BBM pin on his bio, as a hustling girl, I sent him request, he accepted, it felt like heaven on earth, I felt like my prayers were about to be answe...

Ernest Munachiso Eze & Jessey Uche-Nwichi Win Cowbellpedia 2017 Competition -

The 2017 Cowbellpedia TV QUIZ show finals is finally here and the Nigeria's youngest next inventors have emerged! Congrats to  Jessey Uche-Nwichi  - winner in the junior category and  Munachi Ernest-Eze  - winner in the senior category. Munachi made history however, having won the 2015 edition in the junior category and coming back to win in the senior category! Double congrats to him.  Their profiles Munachi  is a 16-year-old student of Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja. He was the Cowbellpedia 2015 junior champion and if he wins again this year, he’ll be the first person to win the competition twice, as a junior and as a senior. (He has won already) https://twitter.com/Cowbellmilk/status/926886110759931905 Jessey  is a 13-year-old student of Graceland International School, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. https://twitter.com/Cowbellmilk/status/926882560495489025 The journey of the finalists began when 52,000 students wrote a preliminary test. Out of the 52,00...

Group cautions ECOWAS on common currency.

The United Global Resolve for Peace(UGRFP), an NGO, has urged the ECOWAS Commission and Parliament to hold off plans to implement ECO as the common currency for West African states. UGRFP, in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said that laudable as the proposal might sound, the appropriate framework for it had yet to be put in place. The statement was signed by Mr Olaseni Shalom, UGRFP’s Executive Secretary. Shalom said that the proponents of ECO, which was due to take off by 2020, had argued that it would build formidable structures to make the monetisation policy efficient. He advised the ECOWAS Commission and the Parliament to rather commence modalities towards the creation of an anti-terrorism taskforce for the sub-region. “While we laud the issues which the idea came to solve like double figures inflation rates, double taxation policies and uncertain and unpredictable exchange rates among others, we yet have reservations to it. “In spite of the above, we propos...

10 Of The Most Promiscuous Countries In The World..

People love the deed, you know that, we know that.  But the truth is some people love it slightly more It seems that there are places around the globe where people simply have more fun in the bedroom, more sexual partners in a lifetime, more one-night-stands, and a more open attitude towards the 'Game' in general. Psychologists have found a way to actually measure people’s sociosexuality.  If you wonder what sociosexuality is, basically it’s just a fancy word for promiscuity, and it has been measured by a test administered in several countries around the globe. Anyway, if you are single planning to go on a vacation, maybe you should double your chances of getting lucky by choosing a place with promiscuity.

We are succeeding in cleaning PDP’s rots, plundering – FG

The Federal Government says it is succeeding in cleaning up the rots, looting, impunity and plundering of the nation’s economy, perpetrated by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who stated this on Sunday in Lagos at a media briefing, said the task was tough, but the government was determined and succeeding. He said the government has been working round the clock to take Nigeria out of the “hell hole the PDP dumped the nation and it will be a tragedy if the party is ever allowed to come back to power in 2019”. Mohammed said that the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration had made tremendous progress in the fight against corruption, insecurity and in revamping the economy. Specifically, the minister said that with the enforcement of Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy, N3 trillion had accrued to government purse. He said the government had successfully removed the N108 billion in maintenance fees pa...