The Catholic Diocese of Kontagora has released the updated list of kidnapped students and teachers at the St. Mary’s School in Agwara LGA of Niger state.
Garri prices have dropped sharply nationwide as abundant cassava harvest boosts supply, easing consumer pressure while Nigeria’s inflation continues to fall.
The European Commission will kickstart two years of tense negotiations when it unveils its proposal Wednesday for the EU's long-term budget including funding reforms that risk renewed confrontation with farmers. Centralising "funding into a single fund may offer some budgetary flexibility, but it risks dissolving" the CAP with "fewer guarantees", pan-European farmers' group Copa-Cogeca has said.
Cuba's president was forced to step in Tuesday after a minister's assertion that "there are no beggars" caused an uproar on the economic crisis-stricken island. President Miguel Diaz-Canel entered the fray on X Tuesday to lambast Feito's "lack of sensitivity."
US President Donald Trump went to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to announce $92 billion in energy and infrastructure deals intended to meet big tech's soaring demand for electricity to fuel the AI boom. Trump made the announcement at the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University, with much of the talk about beating China in the global AI race.
Investors that failed to claim their dividends over the last six years are about to lose them as the SEC has ordered for the dividends to be transferred immediately.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he had struck a trade pact with Indonesia resulting in a lower US tariff on the country's goods than earlier threatened, alongside better market access. India basically is working along that same line," Trump told reporters Tuesday, referring to market access.
Dollar liquidity in the Nigerian foreign exchange rate dropped last week, leading to a crash of the naira to N1,530 per dollar from N1,528 the previous seasons.
France's Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said Tuesday he wanted to reduce the number of public holidays as part of an urgent plan to tackle what he called the "curse" of his country's debt. Presenting his outline 2026 budget plan, Bayrou said two holidays out of France's total of 11 could go, suggesting Easter Monday as well as and May 8, a day that commemorates the end of World War II in Europe.
Large US banks reported results that topped estimates Tuesday as executives pointed to American economic resilience and said businesses were adapting to tariff uncertainty. "We do anticipate further consumer cooling the second half (of 2025) as tariff effects play through," Mason said, while adding that "the global economic performance has been quite resilient."
Brussels plans to target US goods including planes, cars and whiskey if trade talks with Washington fail, according to a list seen by AFP on Tuesday, as the bloc renewed its push for a deal.
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