Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, the minister of the FCT, has appointed Mukhtar Usman Galadima to a key role. The announcement was made late on Wednesday, December 3.
The chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Taiwo Oyedele, has clarified the government's position on TINs on bank accounts.
Asian markets mostly rose Tuesday, clawing back some of the hefty losses suffered in recent weeks, though sentiment remains sluggish and gold hit another record high as Donald Trump prepares to unveil sweeping tariffs.
Support for cryptocurrencies from US President Donald Trump or Argentine leader Javier Milei has seen investors lose billions of dollars and is damaging a sector struggling for credibility, researchers told AFP. "The entire crypto industry is being tarnished," said Claire Balva, strategy director for fintech company Deblock.
Chile's largest steel plant shut down last year, yielding to cheaper production in China. Its Huachipato steelworks, the country's largest, shut down its blast furnaces for good.
Donald Trump loves few things more than talking about his affinity for tariffs, but it's nothing new: he's been saying the same thing for decades. He has since joked that it is now his fourth favorite word, after love, God and family -- but his commitment to them remains as strong as ever.
US President Donald Trump has made tariffs a cornerstone of his trade policy, insisting that they will revive American manufacturing while swelling government coffers.
President Donald Trump has revoked the licenses that allowed several transnational oil and gas companies to operate in Venezuela despite the country being under US sanctions. The cancellation of the licenses will prevent PDVSA from using oil to pay the foreign energy companies for gas, as it had been doing, Morillo explained.
OpenAI on Monday said it raised $40 billion in a new funding round that valued the ChatGPT maker at $300 billion, the biggest capital-raising session ever for a startup. OpenAI has been riding on the success of its latest image-generation features in ChatGPT, the world-leading AI app and chatbot.
Argentina's poverty levels fell sharply in the second half of 2024 after leaping during the first months of Javier Milei's presidency, official figures showed Monday. The figures represent a dramatic improvement for the libertarian Milei, whose draconian austerity policies were blamed for driving up the poverty rate to 52.9 percent of the population in the first six months of 2024.
President Donald Trump again downplayed risks that TikTok is in danger of being banned in the United States, saying he remains confident of finding a buyer for the app's US business by a Friday deadline. When the last deadline passed, in January, TikTok temporarily shut down in the United States, to the dismay of millions of users. bur-arp/mlm
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