Nigerians have started expressing mixed reactions over the life imprisonment handed over to estranged leader of the proscribed IPOB by Federal High Court.
Garri prices have dropped sharply nationwide as abundant cassava harvest boosts supply, easing consumer pressure while Nigeria’s inflation continues to fall.
The World Bank is set to slash Nigeria's loan request after key agencies, the FIRS and Customs, failed to meet key international auditing standards.
The United States and China began a second day of trade talks on Tuesday, seeking to shore up a shaky tariff truce in a bitter row deepened by export curbs. China is also in talks with other trading partners -- including Japan and South Korea -- to try to build a united front to counter Trump's tariffs.
Eurostar said Tuesday it would launch new direct train routes from London to Frankfurt and Geneva, as potential competitors threaten to break its three-decade monopoly on cross-channel rail travel. The announcements come as Eurostar's three-decade monopoly in the Channel Tunnel looks likely to end.
Chinese tech giant Huawei's chips still "lag behind the United States by one generation", state media quoted its founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei as saying in a rare interview on Tuesday. Speaking to the People's Daily, the official newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, 80-year-old Ren insisted the United States had "exaggerated" Huawei's achievements.
True to predictions, prices of tomatoes and peppers have increased by almost 100%. The traders shared the new prices, and farmers gave reasons for the hike.
The Nigerian economy experienced renewed investor confidence in May as foreign exchange inflow hit a six-month high of $5.6 billion, leading to the naira's gain.
In a field in central Greece that once grew clover and corn, maintenance worker Nikos Zigomitros deftly drives a tractor between rows of solar panels, trimming weeds under a blazing sun. In the meantime, solar panel operators will have to ensure production does not outstrip capacity, thereby limiting their potential earnings.
Asian stocks squeezed out more gains Tuesday as the latest round of China-US trade talks moved into a second day, with one of Donald Trump's top advisers saying he expected "a big, strong handshake". Still, he said he expected "a big, strong handshake" at the end of the talks.
In a world hungry for crucial resources, China may not be poised to start deep-sea mining but it is planting seeds for such operations in a meticulously planned economic and geopolitical strategy. It will look for resources everywhere," including the deep sea, said Julia Xue of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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