President Bola Tinubu has been told to remove Nyesom Wike as FCT Minister in a fresh development amid move by the Rivers assembly to sack Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
The Federal Government has launched YouthCred, a new scheme allowing Nigerian youths aged 18–39 to access loans up to N5 million with flexible repayment terms.
North Korea has barred Western influencers from joining a delegation of tourists to an international trade fair in October, a China-based tour operator told AFP on Monday. - Lavish gifts - The YPT tour, priced at 3,995 euros ($4,704), will depart from the Chinese capital Beijing and take in the Pyongyang Autumn International Trade Fair, North Korea's biggest international business exhibition.
Most Asian markets fell Monday as countries fought to hammer out trade deals days before Donald Trump's tariff deadline, though investors took heart after he said the levies would not kick in until the start of next month. Governments from major trading partners including Japan, India, the European Union and South Korea have fought for the past three months to get agreements.
In the heart of Data Center Alley -- a patch of suburban Washington where much of the world's internet traffic flows -- Visa operates its global fraud command center. Every year, $15 trillion flows through Visa's networks, representing roughly 15 percent of the world's economy.
US tariffs will kick in on August 1 if trading partners from Taiwan to the European Union do not strike deals with Washington, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday. Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Sunday he "won't easily compromise" in trade talks with Washington.
The Central Bank of Nigeria has finally harmonised the official FX rate for Customs duty with the prevailing market rates amid the naira's recent gains.
The newly enacted tax laws signed by President Bola Tinubu have four inherent benefits for Nigerians, especially SMEs, households and low-income earmers.
The Nigerian currency surged against the US dollar for most of last week, closing the exchange rate gap between the official and parallel market windows by N2.
Sipping green tea in his garden of roses, ex-communist party official Nguyen Van Cuong says he is "jobless but happy" after Vietnam cut 80,000 state roles this week. Feelings are mixed among newly unemployed apparatchiks -- communist party officials whose jobs were once guaranteed.
Over two years, Rebecca Atkins filed more than 250 job applications, and felt like every one was going into a gaping chasm -- one opened by the highest unemployment rate for recent college graduates in the United States in more than a decade.
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