A chieftain of the ruling APC has been killed in Enugu ahead of the 2027 general elections, with the police speaking on the unfortunate incident.
CBN absorbs N2.5tn in a heavily oversubscribed OMO auction as investors chase high yields, while tight liquidity sends naira to N1,331 per dollar.
The leading French eggs association has sounded alarm over the import of hundreds of thousands of eggs from Ukraine, warning they breach with European production standards and may contain banned antibiotics.
India and Japan will "shape the Asian Century", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday, on a visit expected to secure billions of dollars in Japanese investment and an upgrade to security ties. We will shape the Asian Century for stability, growth, and prosperity," Modi said.
When cell phone and internet networks went down across nine states in Nigeria earlier this summer, leaving millions without service, telecoms officials pointed to an increasingly familiar culprit: vandalism.
Japan's defence ministry is aiming for a major boost to its drone arsenal as part of another record spending request made Friday to deal with a "severely intensifying security environment". But the new budget increase reflects the "severely intensifying security environment" around Japan, a defence ministry official told reporters in Tokyo on condition of anonymity.
Asian markets were mixed on Friday following recent strong gains and after the Dow and the S&P 500 hit new records. Modest gains on Wall Street came after an upward revision to US GDP for the second quarter and bumper results from AI chip giant Nvidia.
Far above Kabul, the cash-strapped Taliban government has located a potentially lucrative revenue stream: Afghanistan's airspace. Against such economic headwinds, the airspace revenue stream "is helpful for the cash-strapped current administration", said Sulaiman Bin Shah, former deputy minister of industry and commerce in the ousted government and founder of the Catalysts Afghanistan consultancy.
India once united US policymakers like few issues. US policymakers have long skirted around India's sensitivities on Kashmir and sought to contain fallout from disagreements on other issues.
Brazilian police cracked down Thursday on a sprawling criminal network that defrauded motorists at petrol pumps and concealed billions of dollars in illicit earnings in cahoots with financial companies. Brazilian police released images of a mass deployment of officers in Sao Paolo's Faria Lima Avenue Thursday, where many financial institutions are headquartered.
Chinese-owned luxury carmaker Lotus said Thursday that it planned to cut up to 550 UK jobs, in part over uncertainty caused by US President Donald Trump's tariffs. The carmaker, which is majority owned by Chinese auto giant Geely, has several sites in the UK, including its headquarters in Hethel, eastern England.
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