The Northern States Christian Elders Forum (NOSCEF) reacted after the United States launched a powerful airstrike against terrorists in Sokoto State.
In October 2025, the Nigerian government launched a 12-month paid internship programme to provide training for the youth, with a N150,000 monthly stipend.
The European Union on Monday vehemently defended its trade deal with President Donald Trump, with EU capitals and businesses sharply divided on an outcome some branded a "capitulation". - 'Not only about trade' - "It looks a bit like a capitulation," said Alberto Rizzi of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
The EU's top negotiator on Monday defended a trade agreement with the United States to avert steeper tariffs as "the best deal we could get under very difficult circumstances". "I'm 100 percent sure that this deal is better than a trade war with the United States," EU trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic told journalists.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has injected about $81 million into the foreign exchange market amid renewed volatility to stabilise the local currency.
The deal between the United States and the European Union may have averted a transatlantic trade war, but worries persist in Ireland where crucial sectors are dependent on US multinationals. But "higher tariffs than there have been" will make transatlantic trade "more expensive and more challenging," he added.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will press Donald Trump on ending "the unspeakable suffering" in Gaza, and also talk trade, when they meet Monday at the US president's golf resort in Scotland, Downing Street said. Starmer is expected to "welcome the president's administration working with partners in Qatar and Egypt to bring about a ceasefire in Gaza," a Downing Street spokesperson said.
Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison said Monday it was considering inviting a Chinese "major strategic investor" to join a US-led consortium negotiating the sale of its global ports business outside China, including operations at the Panama Canal.
The Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Zaach Adedeji, has lamented the loss of revenue by the government through illicit financial inflows.
Dutch brewer Heineken sold less beer in the first half of the year, it announced Monday, as a slump in sales in Europe and the US failed to offset better performance in Asia. Heineken said total sales were 14.2 billion euros in the first half year, compared with 14.8 billion euros in the first six months of 2024.
Most stock markets rose with the euro Monday after the European Union and United States hammered out the "biggest-ever" deal to avert a potentially damaging trade war.
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