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IMF’s Lagarde on trial over French payout to tycoon

December 12, 2016/Reuters International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde went on trial in Paris on Monday over her role in a 400 million euro ($424 million) payout of French taxpayer money to businessman Bernard Tapie in 2008. Lagarde, 60, was France’s finance minister in the government of then-president Nicolas Sarkozy […]

Oil hits highest since mid-2015 as global producers agree to cut

December 12, 2016/Reuters By Amanda Cooper | LONDON Oil rose by as much as 6.5 percent on Monday to an 18-month high after OPEC and some of its rivals reached their first deal since 2001 to jointly reduce output to try to tackle global oversupply and boost prices. Brent crude […]

94% of Young Entrepreneurs in Nigeria Expect to Start More Than One Business in Their Lifetime

December 12, 2016/Sage By Anton van Heerden (http://APO.af/5pHMKP), Executive Vice-President, Africa & Middle East at Sage “What do you want to be when you grow up?” It’s a question that most of us heard by the time we were four years-old, with the expectation that the answer would be a […]