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Nigeria
Lagos female taxi drivers’ special ways of attracting passengers
Eric Dumo Smartly pulling over her Toyota Sienna space bus at a corner of the busy road with the type of precision capable of leaving even the most experienced of drivers drooling with envy that morning, Ronke Opemipo betrayed her tender and beautiful feminine attributes. Beaming with smiles as she ...
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Estonia
EU ministers may push for Google, Facebook tax
Google and Facebook may face higher tax bills in Europe as the EU rushed Saturday to change rules so that more of Silicon Valley’s mega profits fall into public coffers. Public anger against the billions of euros earned by online behemoths is growing louder in Europe and EU finance ministers ...
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Nigeria
Inside Nigeria’s multi-billion naira rice smuggling business
In this second part of his report on Nigeria’s wasting agricultural land, KUNLE FALAYI digs into the country’s rice smuggling as a major problem contributing to low capacity by farmers Crossing from the Nigerian side of the notorious Idiroko border to Benin Republic is like walking across one street to ...
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Nigeria
My brother initiated me into confraternity with gin – Suspect arrested in Lagos cult murder
Kunle Falayi At 28, Sani Rilwan has been a member of the Black Axe Confraternity for five years but the law caught up with him recently when a clash with a rival cult group, Eye Confraternity in Badagry, led to the death of two members of the latter group. According ...
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Portogallo
Jerónimo de Sousa desvaloriza a avaliação positiva do ‘rating’ à economia portuguesa
"A boa notícia que poderia haver era Portugal assumir a sua soberania no plano económico e monetário. Isso sim, seria uma boa notícia", afirmou hoje o secretário geral do PCP.
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Australia
Koala survives 16 km drive trapped under vehicle
A koala survived a 16-kilometre (10-mile) road trip in Australia clinging to the axle of a four-wheel drive vehicle, before the driver stopped and heard the cries of the traumatized animal. The female koala had crawled into the wheel arch while the car was parked in the hills on the outskirts ...
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USA
Predictions – Is the king naked?
“It’s better to roughly right than precisely wrong” - John Maynard Keynes Medieval mathematicians would not have understood the concept of having a one-half chance of getting tails when tossing a die. It’s tails, they might have said, because an omnipotent being wills it. The creation, or rather let’s say the discovery, ...
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Sudafrica Regno Unito
£200,000 raised from Banksy art auction donated to anti-arms group
A new Banksy piece has sold for more than £200,000 at auction. The artwork, named Civilian Drone Strike, depicts drones destroying a child-like drawing of a house while a little girl and her dog watch on in horror. It was sold for £205,000 at an exhibition set up to oppose an arms ...
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USA Regno Unito Malta
Juncker’s grand plans for Europe
In his latest State of the Union speech on Wednesday, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker sounded unusually optimistic about the future of the European Union. With robust EU economic growth, which, in the last two years, has outstripped the US, and unemployment at a nine-year low, Mr Juncker is defining ...
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Portogallo
El FMI dice que la deuda portuguesa es más sostenible ahora que en 2011
El jefe de la misión del Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) en Portugal, Subir Lall, consideró que la deuda pública portuguesa es más sostenible que en 2011, cuando pidió el rescate financiero, a pesar de que ahora está en niveles récord que rondan el 130 % del PIB.