New details emerge on the rumoured Osisioma Flyover collapse in Abia, southeast Nigeria, which reportedly killed 19 people. The verified facts have now emerged.
Dr Zacch Adedeji, the Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), has revealed that 95 per cent of Nigerians will pay no tax under the new tax regime.
The Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Zaach Adedeji, revealed how Nigeria's tax reform will lead to national transformation and not bureaucracy.
General Motors reported Tuesday that second-quarter profits tumbled by more than a third due to tariffs as it confirmed its full-year forecast. Profits overall fell 35.4 percent to $1.9 billion year-on-year, with a $1.1 billion hit from tariffs accounting for much of the drop.
Major social media platforms are enabling and profiting from misinformation around extreme weather events, endangering lives and impeding emergency response efforts, a research group said Tuesday. "The influence of high-profile conspiracy theorists during climate disasters is drowning out emergency response efforts," the report said, adding that the trend was "putting lives at risk."
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that he did not see a reason for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to resign immediately, a day after calling for a sweeping review of the Fed. The Treasury chief had told CNBC earlier in the day that "what we need to do is examine the entire Federal Reserve institution and whether they have been successful."
Coca-Cola on Tuesday said it would release a version of Coke in the United States made with US-grown real cane sugar, a move requested by President Donald Trump. Trump last week said that the company had agreed to use cane sugar in the United States version of Coke.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that he would meet his Chinese counterparts in Stockholm next week for tariff talks, eyeing an extension to a mid-August deadline for levies to snap back to steeper levels.
A new report released by SBM Intelligence has provided an insight into the rising cost of preparing a pot of Jollof rice, and states it is the most expensive.
British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca said Tuesday it would invest $50 billion in the United States by 2030 amid Donald Trump's threats to impose tariffs on the sector. The United States is a key market for the pharmaceutical industry, and AstraZeneca said it expects 50 percent of its revenue to come from the US by 2030.
The exchange rate gap between the official and parallel markets has narrowed to just N2 per dollar as investors poured $1.31 billion into the FX market.
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