Prominent Islamic scholar Sheikh Ahmad Mahmud Gumi has claimed foreign powers are supporting terrorists in Nigeria, contributing to rising insecurity.
The Nigerian government has opened the portal for Youth Economic Intervention and De-Radicalization Programme (YEIDEP) after several postponements.
Accused of being biased by some, defended as a champion of impartiality by others, the BBC is once again the subject of a thorny debate about the role of a publicly funded broadcaster in an increasingly polarised landscape. BBC chairman Samir Shah this week defended the organisation's "sacred job" of upholding impartiality and the truth.
The Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Zaach Adedeji, has revealed that President Bola Tinubu's tax reforms are benefitting Nigeria's economy.
The NDE has commenced the second phase of the Renewed Hope Employment Initiative (RHEI), training 41,307 Nigerians across 8,809 electoral wards...
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, blamed for helping to fuel a deadly opioid crisis, said Friday that a US bankruptcy judge will sign off on a deal to settle thousands of lawsuits against the company, which will cease to exist. "Soon, Purdue will cease to exist."
Threats, intimidation, harassment -- the tactics deployed by US negotiators to stall a global deal on shipping pollution last month sent chills through climate diplomats ahead of the COP30 summit.
President Donald Trump signed an order Friday to lower US tariffs on agriculture imports such as beef, bananas, coffee and tomatoes, as his government comes under pressure from voters grappling with the escalating cost of living. Democrats swept all three of those races, with an intense focus on cost of living issues.
Venezuelans are grappling with political and economic chaos, a mass population exodus and fears of a US military attack. Maduro blames Venezuela's economic woes squarely on US sanctions.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Thursday that US air travel is recovering after the disruptions caused by the more than month-long government funding shutdown. Flight traffic limits had been set in place as a consequence of the record-long US budget shutdown, which began on October 1 and ended on Wednesday.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, one of only a handful of senior US political leaders attending this year's UN climate summit, told AFP Friday that President Donald Trump's America is "deliberately losing" the clean tech race to China.
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