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Nigeria’s Seven-Up gets $60m takeover offer from majority shareholder

Nigeria’s Seven-Up bottling company has received an offer from its majority shareholder Affelka to buy out minorities for 19.33 billion…

SoftBank pitches 30% discount price for Uber shares

Details of the ongoing deal between SoftBank and Uber have emerged that the Japanese bank is willing to buy the shares of Scandal-hit…

UK Pearson sells Wall Street English for $300m to cut back debts

British Education group, Pearson, has agreed to sell its English language business Wall Street English (WSE) to a group of…

Meredith to buy U.S. publisher Time in Koch-backed deal

U.S. media company Meredith Corp said Sunday it will buy Time Inc, the publisher of People, Sports Illustrated and Fortune…

Europe’s largest lab operator acquires majority stake in Nigeria’s PathCare

Synlab, Europe’s largest lab operator has bought a majority stake in Nigerian diagnostic company, PathCare Nigeria to try to tap…

Purple Capital, Nigeria’s upmarket developer gets $12.5m funding for real estate development

Nigeria’s Purple Capital, developer of the iconic 6,000m² Maryland Mall, a neighbourhood shopping centre in the Ikeja district of Lagos,…