Nigeria: Economy $510bn, biggest in Africa
Abuja - QNA
Nigeria’s recalculated economy is worth $510 billion, by farthe biggest in Africa, officials announced Sunday. Nigeria knocked out of the ring South Africa, whose GDP of $353 billion waspreviously counted the biggest on the continent and which is the only Africanmember of the Group 20.Finance Minister Ngozi Ikonjo-Iweala told a news conference Sunday that the newdata makes Nigeria the 26th largest economy in the world and raises its per capitaincome to $2,688, making it No. 121 in the world, up from No. 135.
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Paris - Emiratesvoice
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Beirut - NNA
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Paris - Emiratesvoice
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Taipei - Emiratesvoice
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Paris - Emiratesvoice
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to 'eternal style' of late Alaia
Paris - Emiratesvoice
Two months after legendary designer Azzedine Alaia's sudden death plunged the fashion world into mourning, an exhibition in homage to the "King of Cling" opens Monday in his studios in Paris. The Tunisian-born designer, renowned for the way his clothes hugged the body, died suddenly in November aged 82, reportedly of heart failure after falling down the stairs at his home. The diminutive maverick, who ignored fashion week convention by showing when and where he wanted, in July produced his first couture collection in six years to rapturous reviews. Now some of his most iconic dresses are going on display in the glass-roofed gallery next to his studio and home in the Marais district where he used to show his creations. It includes the dress worn by supermodel Naomi Campbell, his longtime friend and muse, when she led
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