Former President Goodluck Jonathan has finally opened up on leaving the troubled Guinea Bissau on Ivorian air rathan Nigerian aircraft when he was trapped.
The Nigerian government announced plans to secure $500m loan from the World Bank to boost MSME lending in Nigeria through the Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN).
Nigeria has sold over a trillion naira worth of crude to several African countries, even as Dangote Refinery still imports. India is Nigeria's biggest buyer now.
The MultiChoice report blamed the loss of 1.4 million subscribers to the recent economic hardships. The company is planning a new package to lure customers back.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) injected about $580 million into the foreign exchange market in May to save the naira from depreciation in the FX market.
After three years of doom-defying growth, Russia's heavily militarised economy is slowing, facing a widening budget deficit and weak oil prices, all under the threat of more Western sanctions. It now expects a budget deficit of 1.7 percent of GDP -- three times higher than initially predicted.
American AI giant Anthropic aims to boost the European tech ecosystem as it expands on the continent, product chief Mike Krieger told AFP Thursday at the Vivatech trade fair in Paris.
At a time of growing concern over the power of the world's mighty tech companies, one German state is turning its back on US giant Microsoft. He explained that the state wants to rely on publicly owned German digital infrastructure rather than that of an American company.
NATO leaders meeting in The Hague this month look set to agree to a major increase in military budgets under pressure from US President Donald Trump. The demands on NATO's European members are huge: new hardware targets agreed this month will require the biggest armament spree in decades.
Scale AI announced a "significant" new investment by Meta late Thursday that values the startup at more than $29 billion and puts its founder to work for the tech titan. Scale AI founder and chief executive Alexandr Wang will join Meta to work on the tech giant's own artificial intelligence efforts as part of the deal, according to the startup.
It took a steep hike in mobile internet tariffs to unleash a rebellion among Cuban students on a scale unseen since the 1959 revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power. The protests have ballooned into a wider mobilization over the subtle dollarization of the Cuban economy.
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