It was another sad story in the National Assembly as Senate Okey Ezea, the last man standing in the Labour Party, has reportedly died outside the country.
The Federal Government has reopened the YEIDEP 2025 portal, offering Nigerian youths aged 18–35 grants of N50,000 to N500,000 with required documents.
Hopes of a trade deal between Britain and the United States, reignited by President Donald Trump's positive comments after meeting Prime Minister Keir Starmer this week, prompted cautious optimism Friday from a UK business sector keen to avoid tariffs.
Zeal Akaraiwe, the chief executive Graeme Blaque, said the current alignment of the official and black markets was due to the raft of policies implemented by CBN.
Beavers will soon be released into waterways in England under a new scheme launched on Friday, signalling a return to the wild for an animal once hunted to extinction. Each project would need to supply a 10-year plan to support the animals' return to the wild, while the government has also promised help for farmers who make space for beavers on their land.
Experts are worried that the Central Bank of Nigeria's order to banks on insider loans could result in some financial report fraud in theh insudtry.
In a followup to the earlier callout of the federal government's airport concession plans, the aviation unions have released a list of demands to be met in 14 days
The federal minister for power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu noted that it is no longer sustainable for the government to keep piling huge debts that hinder the sector.
India will finalise a "mutually beneficial" free trade deal with the European Union by the end of this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday after meeting with EU chief Ursula von der Leyen. "We have asked our teams to work out a mutually beneficial bilateral free trade agreement by the end of this year," Modi said in New Delhi.
The minister described the price difference between band A electricity tariffs, and other bands as unfair. He promised that the government would close the gap.
China missed a key climate target in 2024 and emissions in the world's second-largest economy rose slightly as coal remained dominant despite record renewable additions, official data showed Friday. The data showed carbon emissions rose slightly from last year, though far short of previous jumps, as experts speculate about whether China may have reached peak emissions ahead of a 2030 target.
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