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With Pope Francis laid to rest, all eyes have turned to the conclave, the secretive meeting of cardinals set to convene within days to elect a new head of the Catholic Church. Alongside world leaders and reigning monarchs, an estimated 400,000 people turned out on Saturday for the Argentine pontiff’s …

Dozens of heads of state – some of whom had better relations with the pope than others – will be in attendance. World leaders began arriving in Rome on Friday before Pope Francis’s weekend burial, a ceremony that, although more low-key than usual, is still set to be a historic …

The naira recorded its highest appreciation against the dollar in both the parallel and official foreign exchange markets, ending the week on a positive note. Exchange data from a Bureau de Change operator in Wuse Zone 4, Abubakar Alhasan, showed that the naira closed at N1,595 per dollar on Friday, …