Expectations are high among Africans and African leaders as former US vice president, Joe Biden takes office as the 46th President of the United States. The biggest question right now on the mind of African leaders is how will a ​Joe Biden​ ​​presidency affect Africa’s​ over​ 1.3 billion people​?

Governor Abiodun presents N339 Billion budget of recovery

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WhatsApp has reached 2 Billion users two years after announcing a 1.5 Billion mark. The free messaging service and ad-free application was purchased by Facebook in 2014 for $19 billion.

Did you know that $202 billion per annum is lost in productivity because of refractive errors? It would take $39 billion in infrastructure spend to address this.

SON discovers N8 Billion worth of fake cables in Lagos.

Fani-Kayode reacts to allegations over unaccounted 2 Billion Naira.

Wil James, president of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, discusses the importance of the $1.33 billion investment in a Kentucky plant and reaction by President Trump.

Joe Hinrichs, president at Ford Americas, discusses the automaker's $1.2 billion investment in three Michigan factories that will create or retain 130 jobs in the state.

Alleged N3.2 Billion fraud - Defence challenges failure to frontload witness statement.

Yahoo says 32 million user accounts have been illegally accessed in the past couple of years, adding to around 1.5 billion in the years before that. Bad news for Marissa Mayer who's had her 2016 bonus forfeited.

Babatunde Fashola has revealed that the N126 billion approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) for 12 road projects across eight states was partly used to recall contractors owed by Jonathan’s administration.