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Emerging reports have indicated that newly appointed Super Eagles technical adviser Paul Le Guen has rejected the offer posed to him by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).

The development committee of the NFF had previously confirmed Le Guen as the new head coach, with top French journalist Herve Penot rejecting the claims.

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According to a news release, Unilever has agreed to buy Dollar Shave Club. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, Fortune reported Unilever is paying $1 billion in cash for the company.

Michael Dubin, Dollar Shave Club's founder, will continue to serve as its CEO. Dubin said the company had "long admired Unilever's purpose-driven business leadership and its category expertise is unmatched."

"We are excited to be part of the family," Dubin said.

Dollar Shave Club is a subscription service in which members receive razor blades through the mail. The company also sells toiletry products such as shave butter, post shave cream and face moisturizer.

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It was a moving sight yesterday, when the mother of two children, aged three and five, who died in an early morning fire in Lagos, Nigeria, was being consoled by friends and family members.

The cause of the fire that consumed the bungalow of three rooms could not be ascertained.

The occupants were reportedly fast asleep when the fire started. It attracted sympathisers, who made efforts to put it out.

It was gathered that fire fighters were not invited on time. When they eventually arrived, the victims were recovered dead, with their mother wailing.

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The technology company's big bet on cloud computing is paying off. Sales from Microsoft's cloud division hit $6.7 billion in the most recent quarter, a 7% gain from the same quarter a year earlier. That was fueled by the staggering growth of Azure, its cloud computing platform, which more than doubled.

Microsoft says it's now on pace to generate more than $12 billion in sales annually from commercial cloud services.

The momentum from Microsoft's cloud efforts helped the company reach $22.6 billion in sales and $5.5 billion in net income for the quarter, beating Wall Street estimates on both counts.

Its stock was up as much as 4% in after hours trading following the release.

"The Microsoft Cloud is seeing significant customer momentum and we're well positioned to reach new opportunities in the year ahead," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a statement.

Microsoft has invested heavily to reposition itself as an industry leader in cloud services, rivaling businesses like Amazon. This has helped Microsoft cushion the blow from a failed investment in smartphones and a sagging PC market dragging down its Windows licensing sales.

Revenue from phones declined by 71% from the same quarter a year earlier. Microsoft also wrote down a $1.1 billion charge related to the fallout from its purchase of Nokia and subsequent restructuring in the phone division. Last year, it took a $7.6 billion charge for the Nokia deal.

While its cloud performance has been strong, the performance of Windows 10 has been less than it hoped for.

Microsoft admitted last week that it will miss an ambitious goal to have Windows 10 running on one billion devices by 2018 as a result of slower-than-expected upgrades and adoption.
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