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There was jubilation at Aramoko Ekiti, the local government headquarter of Ekiti West LGA of Ekiti State on Thursday as the town experienced again for the first time in years, the flow of pipe borne water. Residents who spoke with journalists, describing  water as life took turn to shower praises on the Ayo Fayose administration...

Some private oil marketers stormed the department of petroleum resources warri this morning around 10 am to protest chanting "we no gree oo, we no gree".They spoke to our reporter that they came to show their grievances on their filing station which has been sealed by the Company.They said have meeting up with the rules and regulations...

ISLAMABAD: The government on Saturday announced to reduce prices of all petroleum products by Rs 5 per litre. According to the announcement, the new price for petrol, to be effective from February 01, would be Rs 71.25 and the price of high speed diesel would be Rs 75.79 per litre. Similarly, high octane price would be Rs 75.66...

  KARACHI: Governor State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Ashraf Wathra on Saturday said that local economy was facing different challenges despite the macro-economic indicators have showed sustainability during the last financial year. The SBP kept the policy rates unchanged in the first monetary policy announced in year 2016,...

 Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz, locked in a tight race in Iowa with billionaire Donald Trump just two days before the state's crucial U.S. presidential nominating contest, urged a packed house of supporters to give him the first victory of the 2016 campaign. Ten Republicans and three Democrats were campaigning in Iowa...

LAHORE: Nishat Group Chairman and Pakistan's leading industrialist Mian Mohammad Mansha has served a legal notice in England through Carter Ruck (the UK's leading defamation law firm) against Pakistani media house ARY Network Ltd for false and defamatory allegations broadcast by the television network on-air. As stated in the...

The oil market scored modest gains Friday, ending a turbulent January that drove prices sharply lower amid worries about the global crude oversupply. Speculation that Russia and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries will meet to discuss oil output cuts to push up prices supported sentiment for a second day,...

 Up to 100 masked men, dressed in black, gathered in central Stockholm to attack people from immigrant backgrounds, reports say. Swedish police say the large gang distributed leaflets inciting people to assault refugees. Witnesses said the men physically attacked people they believed were foreigners. However, police have...

  Thousands of people marched in the Paris rain on Saturday to denounce plans to renew France's state of emergency and revoke the French citizenship of dual nationals convicted of terrorism. Human rights groups, politicians and unions joined the march in the French capital and in other demonstrations around France. The...

Turkey has accused Russia of again violating its airspace and warned it would "face consequences" if such infringements continue. The foreign ministry said a Russian jet flew into its airspace on the border with Syria on Friday. Moscow described the claim as "baseless propaganda". Tensions between the two countries have...

span class="articleLocation" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> span class="articleLocation">The New York Times's editorial board endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John Kasich as they seek to become their parties' nominees in the U.S. presidential election, calling Clinton one of the most "deeply qualified...

  ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs Senator Ishaq Dar as the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) chairman on Saturday accorded anticipatory approval to amend 0.6 per cent Withholding Tax (WHT) rate on banking transactions to 0.3 per cent in respect of non-filers till February 29, 2016. The...