The federal high court in Abuja on Thursday, November 20, 2025, sentenced proscribed IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu to life imprisonment over terrorism charges.
The Federal Government has reopened the YEIDEP 2025 portal, offering Nigerian youths aged 18–35 grants of N50,000 to N500,000 with required documents.
A daily pill that is cheaper and easier to take than currently available weight loss drugs helps people lose around a tenth of their body weight over nearly 18 months, a study said Thursday. This is similar to research published earlier this year that found that people with obesity but not diabetes lost around 12 percent of their body weight while taking the pill.
A court in Spain said Thursday it has ordered Facebook owner Meta to pay local media outlets 479 million euros ($552 million) in compensation for "unfair competition" plus 60 million euros in interest. AMI had been seeking 551 million euros in compensation.
Shoppers could face higher prices for phones, laptops and other gadgets next year, manufacturers and analysts warn, as AI data centres hoover up memory chips used in consumer electronics.
Asian markets rallied Thursday after blowout earnings from chip powerhouse Nvidia cooled worries over an AI bubble and overshadowed a Federal Reserve report that dealt a blow to hopes for a December interest rate cut. "There's been a lot of talk about an AI bubble," he told an earnings call.
Nvidia shares climbed Wednesday after it beat quarterly earnings expectations on fierce demand for its sophisticated chips that power artificial intelligence. - China sales stalled - Nvidia reported profit of $31.9 billion on record-high quarterly revenue of $57 billion, sending shares up more than 5 percent.
Many US Federal Reserve officials were leaning against another rate cut in December, meeting minutes showed Wednesday, a move sure to infuriate President Donald Trump as he pushes for lower rates. According to the minutes released Wednesday, "participants expressed strongly differing views about what policy decision would most likely be appropriate" in December.
Relief has given way to anxiety in Switzerland over the concessions made to spare the small Alpine nation from US President Donald Trump's threat of a stark 39 percent tariff. A factsheet published by the White House revealed that Switzerland agreed to recognise US vehicle safety norms, raising questions over whether the polarising cars will soon be a fixture of the country's alpine roads.
The Netherlands said Wednesday it had suspended its proposed takeover of Chinese-owned chip maker Nexperia in a sign of "good will", a move China welcomed as a positive "first step". "We see this as a show of good will," he said of his move to suspend the takeover, vowing to continue talking to Chinese officials.
EU member states Wednesday backed a new one-year delay to landmark anti-deforestation rules that have hit a wall of opposition from businesses and trading partners, diplomats told AFP. Already delayed by a year, the rollout of the law banning imports of products driving deforestation would be pushed back to the end of 2026 under plans backed by a majority of member states.
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