Obama In Talks To Provide Shows For Netflix — The New York Times

In this Oct. 13, 2017 photo, former President Barack Obama, right, and former first lady Michelle Obama arrive for the first session of the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Former President Barack Obama is in advanced negotiations with Netflix to produce a series of high-profile shows that will provide him a global platform after his departure from the White House, according to people familiar with the discussions.

China Builds Ambitiously In Africa As US Sounds The Alarm; Africa Should Avoid Forfeiting Sovereignty To China Over Loans — Tillerson

In this photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency people gather before a red banner written in English and Chinese set up for the opening ceremony of the African Union Conference Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Jan. 28, 2012. The sleek, green-and-white trains glide past the congested, ragged streets of Addis Ababa along the city's new light rail — built and financed by China. The towering silver African Union headquarters here was built by China, too. So was the new ring road system around the city. And the new railway connecting landlocked Ethiopia to Djibouti. (Ding Haitao/Xinhua via AP)

The sleek, green-and-white trains glide past the congested, ragged streets of Addis Ababa along the city's new light rail - built and financed by China.

Violence Against UK Retail Workers Doubles In A Year

British Retail Consortium Retail Crime Survey

Violence against UK retail workers resulting in injury has doubled in a year to the equivalent of 13 people harmed every day, according to new figures.

Routine Prostate Cancer Tests ‘A Blunt Tool’ Causing Men Harm, Says UK Study

The trial is the largest to investigate prostate cancer screening (PA)

Routine tests for prostate cancer do not save lives and have the potential to do more harm than good, a study has suggested.

Fall In Child Marriages In South Asia ‘Leading Global Decline’

The legal marriage age in India is 18 but millions of children are pushed to tie the knot when they are younger

A significant fall in child marriages in South Asia has reduced the rate of marriage for girls globally, the UN children’s agency has said.

A child bride performs rituals with the groom (AP/Prakash Hatvalne)

Buhari To Visit Violence Ravaged States

President Muhammadu Buhari Getty Images

Muhammadu Buhari said the government had sent more resources to help find the schoolgirls.

Protests, Concerns Trail New Lagos Land Use Charge

Image source: Nigeria Real Estate Hub/MAIJAGRAPHITTI MONTAGE

●112 surveyors picked to value property ●Valuers weigh effects on residential market

More protests have greeted the newly introduced Lagos Land Use Charge (LUC), which raised the previous rates to over 200%.

Nigeria Oil Corruption Trial Postponed

Campaigners say this could become one of the biggest corporate corruption trials in history

A corruption trial involving oil giants Shell and Eni's business dealings in Nigeria, which was due to begin in a court in the Italian city of Milan today, has been postponed.

Oil Subsidy May Return As Cross-Border Losses Hit ₦774m Daily

The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Maikanti Baru Photo: Twitter/NNPC

• PENGASSAN seeks payment of arrears • NLC gives terms for deregulation

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is worried about the proliferation of fuel stations in communities at the nation’s borders which has led to an unprecedented smuggling of petrol to neighboring countries.

Eni And Shell Go On Trial Over Nigeria Kickback Scandal

Eni and Shell stand accused of handing out bribes during the 2011 purchase of an offshore oil block estimated to hold 9 billion barrels of crude, for US$1.3 billion

Oil giants Eni and Shell go on trial in Milan on Monday, charged with bribery and corruption in the purchase of an offshore oilfield in Nigeria.