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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...

Man Graduates With 4.0CGPA In Masters In USA After Being Mocked By Dad's Friend .

A Twitter user who graduated with a perfect 4.0 CGPA shared photos from his Msc graduation ceremony in Texas, USA and narrated how his dad's friend advised his dad not to send him for his masters in the US because he graduated with less than 2.1 during his B.sc in Nigeria. 

Here's how to unlock your phone on Vodafone, Three, EE and O2, and how to get an unlocked phone on contract.

We show you the way to unlock your phone for free, and reveal which networks let you buy an unlocked phone from the get go Having a locked phone precludes you from using other networks, and therefore from reaping the benefits of the mobile phone market's best deals. We show you how to unlock your mobile phone (in many cases for free), preventing you from being bogged down in a long and expensive contracts. Whilst this dynamic doesn't work in mobile phone companies' favour, many of them, including mobile giants Vodaphone, Three, EE and O2, do let you unlock, with many instances being absolutely free! There are, natrually, caveats; typically all networks impose a limit (or three) on the unlocking process – time after activation to unlock, cost of unlocking and how long it will take to carry out. We'll explain how to do it on all the UK's major networks. So you can finally do away with dubious-looking high street unlocking services - anything they'll do ...

Nadal pulls out of season opener in Abu Dhabi.

World number one Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from his planned season opener at an exhibition event in Abu Dhabi due to lingering fitness concerns just three weeks ahead of the Australian Open. Nadal, 31, was forced to pull out of the 2017 season-ending ATP Masters last month due to a knee injury after an exhausting season in which he won the French and US Opens. “It was a tough 2017 and I need to take my calendar in a different way in order to be ready,” Nadal told the Mubadala World Tennis Championships website.   “For this reason, I have sadly announced to the organisers and now to you fans that I won’t play this time in Abu Dhabi.” Spanish sports daily AS reported that Nadal had to halt his planned training schedule in his native Mallorca this week to seek medical attention in Barcelona due to the niggling knee injury. Nadal still plans on going for a 17th Grand Slam of his career in Melbourne next month. The Spaniard will be replaced by co...

Ajanah Inter-council Basketball Competition good for national teams, says Oyedeji.

3 hours ago Madrid 'obliged' to win politicised El Clasico 5 h Olumide Oyedeji. PHOTO: BWB Former captain of the national Basketball team, D’Tigers, Olumide Oyedeji has described the annual Ajanah Inter-local Council Basketball Championship as one of the best things to happen to the sport in Nigeria. Speaking at the 10th edition of the competition, Oyedeji said about 60 players in the quasi-premier basketball league and about 18 in continental premier league were groomed from the competition. He also said about 45 players in Division One and about 25 players in Division Two are all offshoots of the Ajanah Annual Inter-Council Championship. The 10th annual Ajanah Championship, which is sponsored by the Kogi State Chief Judge, Justice Nasiru Ajanah, is billed to hold from December 27 at Okene Local Council in Kogi State. According to the secretary of the Main Organising Committee for the tournament, Mr. Ajibarade Bello, who unveiled ...

Goodbye 2017, hope for a miracle in 2018.

As dusk sets on another year, it is time once again for us to perform our annual ritual of looking back and then peering ahead. In looking back at 2017, what we see is Nigerian sports on a roller coaster heading to an undefined destination. Simply put, administration, as has always been the case, has not managed to match plan with potential in sports development. In 2017, there was, again, no grand plan to harness the huge amount of abundant natural talent that the whole world knows exists in this mass of Black humanity. What is noticeable about the year is an emerging trend, a subtle change in strategy, of identifying good athletes to represent the country in international competitions from the fairly large pool of Nigerian youngsters born or living overseas. This group, honed in the more advanced sports cultures abroad, has helped to shore up the talent base and reinforced the quality of representation in several national sports teams.  This has been mostl...

Why and how government should encourage coding education.

Coding education has been identified as critical to prepare young people with requisite skills for future jobs and that is why governments must embrace the programme to reduce unemployment, Mr. Olajide Ajayi, ambassador Africa Code Week Nigeria, in a chat with Nigeria CommunicationsWeek underscored the benefits of learning to code at a young age. Ajayi said, “…cannot be overemphasized. Yes, it is agreed that not all future jobs would require you to be a coder, what’s certain is that most would require collateral skills and competencies that can be acquired through coding education”. “Such essential skills”, Ajayi noted” are as logical and critical reasoning, patience, attention to detail, self-reliance, language and memorization are all examples of skills one can gain through coding Education”. Launched in 2015 by SAP EMEA, in partnership with the Cape Town Science Centre and the Galway Education Centre, Africa Code Week is an initiative that brings together hundred...

MultiChoice launches app for DStv installers.

MultiChoice In a bid to make the DStv installation process seamless for customers, MultiChoice Nigeria, pay TV provider, has launched an app installers. The DStv Installer App is a management tool for assigning, monitoring, reviewing, troubleshooting, and managing customer installations to ensure quality installation and better accountability. Speaking on the launch of the app, the Managing Director, MultiChoice Nigeria, John Ugbe, said: “The DStv Installer app is the latest feature in MultiChoice Nigeria’s line of innovative services and products which benefit our partners and customers. The DStv installer app enables dealers to assign jobs to accredited installers within a specific area, whilst ensuring that our customers benefit from reduced waiting times and the pre-knowledge of their installer’s identity.” The benefits of the DStv installer app also include an improved business process which reduces the manual operation of assigning an installer, tracking ...

Philippines storm death toll climbs to 133.

The death toll from a tropical storm in the southern Philippines climbed swiftly to 133 on Saturday, as rescuers pulled dozens of bodies from a swollen river, police said. Tropical Storm Tembin has lashed the nation’s second-largest island of Mindanao since Friday, triggering flash floods and mudslides. The Philippines is pummelled by 20 major storms each year on average, many of them deadly. But Mindanao, home to 20 million people, is rarely hit by these cyclones. Rescuers retrieved 36 bodies from the Salog River in Mindanao on Saturday, as officials reported more fatalities in the impoverished Zamboanga peninsula.   The bodies were swept downriver from a flooded town upstream called Salvador, Rando Salvacion, the Sapad town police chief, told AFP. Authorities in Salvador said they had retrieved 17 other bodies upstream. Salvador and Sapad are in Lanao del Norte, which is one of the provinces harde...