Mohammed Abdullahi dies, a former chief of staff to two former presidents of Nigeria. has reportedly died. Details surrounding his death have been unveiled.
The Nigerian FG has introduced 50 new tax breaks and reliefs aimed at easing financial pressure on small businesses and low-income earners particularly.
The naira depreciated again in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, trading t N1,505 per dollar from N1,502 the previous day.
The local government in a resource-rich Philippine province has unanimously voted in favour of a 50-year ban on new mining permits, a decision its supporters said cannot be overridden by Manila. Environmental lawyer Grizelda Anda, who worked in support of Wednesday's vote, said Manila would not be able to legally overrule the local government's decision, which now awaits the governor's signature.
The Sam Ethnan Air Force Base in Lagos has been left in darkness for over two weeks, due to a rift between the NAF and IKEDC. Ikeja Electric has explained why.
President Donald Trump said this week that Japan and South Korea were looking to work with the United States on a "gigantic" natural gas pipeline in Alaska.
Taiwanese chipmaking giant TSMC's plan to invest $100 billion in the United States was a "historic moment" for Taiwan-US ties, the island's President Lai Ching-te said on Thursday. It will take the total amount the world's biggest chipmaker has pledged to invest in the United States to $165 billion, which TSMC said was the "largest single foreign direct investment in US history".
In a barren, yellow-and-grey moonscape, heavy machinery grinds away at a titanium mine in the heart of Ukraine. Ukraine, which has around five percent of global mineral resources, is the 11th biggest titanium producer in the world, according to World Mining Data.
The shock entrance of DeepSeek in the race to develop advanced artificial intelligence has put the world on notice as to China's innovation prowess, a high-ranking Beijing official said Thursday.
The Japanese owner of 7-Eleven announced on Thursday a raft of new measures to fend off a takeover by a Canadian rival, including a huge share buyback and an IPO of its US unit. Reports of the raft of measures, that appeared before the retailer's announcement, caused its shares to surge as much as 10 percent in afternoon trade.
Japan's top court said Thursday it had finalised the acquittal of two former executives from the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant charged with professional negligence over the 2011 meltdown. In March 2011, a massive tsunami swamped the Fukushima Daiichi plant on Japan's northeastern coast after an undersea 9.0-magnitude earthquake, the country's strongest in recorded history.
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