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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...

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Row over oil money to fight Boko Haram in Nigeria.

Nigeria's opposition has rejected a plan to spend a billion dollars of oil money to fight the Boko Haram insurgency in the country's volatile northeast. Last week, the governor of the southern state of Edo, Godwin Obaseki, told reporters the federal government had been given the nod to withdraw the cash from the country's Excess Crude Account (ECA). The account is a buffer drawn from crude oil revenues, jointly owned by the federal government, 36 states and local governments. Nigeria, Africa's largest crude producer, exports around two million barrels per day and depends on the sector for 70 percent of government revenue and 90 percent of foreign exchange earnings. "We are pleased with the federal government achievements in the insurgency war and in that vein, state governors have approved that the sum of $1 billion be taken from the excess crude account by the federal government to fight the insurgency war to its conclusion," Obaseki said. ...

South East beats North West to win NFF/Zenith Bank Future Eagles trophy.

The victorious Southeast U-15 football team with the Future Eagles trophy after beating Northwest 5-2 at the Agege Stadium… yesterday. The South East beat North West 5-2 to win the U-15 category of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and Zenith Bank sponsored Future Eagles competition, which ended yesterday at the Agege Stadium, Lagos. The Most Valuable player and highest goals scorer of the competition, Divine Nwachukwu scored a hat trick to help his team to victory. The other goals came from the boots of Franklin Eneh and Oluebube Oguduba. Saifulahi Ibrahim scored the two goals for North West. Speaking after the final match, NFF’s First Vice President, Seyi Akinwumi, who is the coordinator of the championship, said, “We decided to name them the future Eagles because that is the aim of the competition “We decided to name them the future Eagles because that is the aim of the competition. “The kids have shown that they have potential and all we have to do is...

5.1billion people subscribe to mobile services globally’.

The Global System for Mobile telecommunications Association (GSMA), has called on government leaders to reform their regulatory frameworks in order to encourage a new wave of innovation and investment in digital infrastructure and services. This is even as GSMA revealed that more than 5.1 billion people – about two-third of the world’s population have now subscribed to mobile services. GSMA Director- General, Mats Granryd, stated this at the 11th World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Currently, 108 of the WTO’s 164 members have made commitments to facilitate trade in telecoms services, such as the right to establish new telecoms companies, make foreign direct investment in existing companies, and enable the cross-border transmission of telecoms services. Granryd said: “Today, more than 5.1 billion people – about two-thirds of the world’s population – subscribe to mobile services. With this broad reach, the mobile industry ...

Lagos to overtake Nairobi as Africa’s start-up capital.

Going by the level of transformation currently happening in its digital ecosystem, Lagos is set to overtake Nairobi, Kenya, as the start-up capital of Africa. A presentation by the Country Editor, The Business Year, Silvia Lambiase, at an ICT forum, organised by Huawei Technologies in Lagos, on Monday, revealed that for early-days entrepreneurs, Lagos represents the most valuable ecosystem, with startups raising on average more funding than anywhere else on the continent to finance their early stages. Lambiase said prime examples of the success of startups in Nigeria are eCommerce giants Jumia and Konga, which now operate beyond the home-country borders. According to her, other start-ups among the best on the Continent are Andela, iROKO and Flutterwave, which have all attracted large global investor interest. She said Lagos has witnessed rapid growth in its ecosystem, especially because of the success in establishing ‘Yabacon Valley’. Quoting Quartz Africa, Lambiase ...

Machines Could Become Driving Force Behind CX.

Customer experience improvements have become an important part of companies' digital transformations, according to survey results  Mitel  released Tuesday. More than 2,500 senior IT decision makers across North America, the UK, France, Germany and Australia responded to the survey, conducted in August by Opinion Research for Mitel. The participants represented businesses ranging from 250 to 10,000-plus employees in a wide range of industries. Among the researchers' findings: Overall, 95 percent of the respondents saw customer experience (CX) improvements as an important part of digital transformation; 59 percent had completed half or more of their expected CX improvements; 90 percent planned to tie machines to their communications and collaboration tools; 85 percent believed machine-to-people interactions would result in positive transformations in the customer experience; 75 percent planned to implement machine-based interactions with customers within the next two ...

More than 25,000 Nigerians held in slave and sex camps Lybia in 2017, says NAPTIP boss.

The Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons(NAPTIP), Julie Okah-Donli, has disclosed that more than 25,000 Nigerians have been held in slave and sex camps in Lybia. Okah-Donli made this known while defending the agency’s 2018 budget before the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters on Tuesday. She said of the figure, about 5000 of the victims were repatriated within the period. “A large number of Nigerians have also been returned from other countries in Europe and Africa. “All these people need to be properly received, profiled and assisted. ”NAPTIP has been working in conjunction with other governmental and non governmental agencies such as NEMA, International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and others to provide help to these unfortunate Nigerians,”she said. She lamented that in spite of the evils of human trafficking not so much attention was focused on the menace. She said the recent trend wh...