Fresh controversy emerges before the 2027 elections as MURIC calls for the sack of INEC Chairman Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan. Legit.ng has the details.
ECOWAS has opened applications for multiple job vacancies across West Africa, inviting qualified candidates to apply immediately for roles in diverse sectors.
With the United States the largest export market for champagne, producers of France's leading sparkling wine had little to celebrate on Thursday about facing an additional 20 percent tariff, although they held out hope for negotiations. The wider wine and spirits sector also hopes negotiations could lead to the additional tariff being removed.
More than four years after the UK's withdrawal from the European Union became effective, Britain has escaped harsher US tariffs, facing only half of the 20 percent imposed on its EU neighbours. Although he called the 10 percent levy "a disappointment," it is significantly lower than the 20 percent levy on the EU and the 34 percent levy on China.
Canada said it would impose a 25 percent tariff on some autos imported from the United States, retaliating against President Donald Trump's levies that came into affect on Thursday.
US President Donald Trump in March ridiculed Lesotho as a place "nobody has ever heard of" and then this week hit the tiny African kingdom with the highest of his reciprocal trade tariffs for any single nation.
Trade economists were scratching their heads on Thursday at the formula used by the White House to measure trade imbalances and inflict punishment on all its global trading partners. Following Trump's trade philosophy, the formula takes a country's trade deficit with the US as evidence of unfairness.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday called for a suspension of investment in the United States until Donald Trump's "brutal and unfounded" new tariffs against Europe and the rest of the world were clarified.
Wall Street led a global markets bloodbath Thursday as countries around the world reeled from President Donald Trump's trade war, while the White House insisted the US economy would emerge victorious. The White House said Russia was spared because it is already under sanctions over its war in Ukraine which "preclude any meaningful trade."
Around 100 authors on Thursday protested outside the London headquarters of Meta, accusing the US tech giant of "stealing" content to train its Artificial Intelligence models. A Meta spokesperson told the Guardian that "we respect third-party intellectual property rights and believe our use of information to train AI models is consistent with existing law."
President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, the United States' top trading partner, on Thursday welcomed her country's exclusion from the list of nations targeted in Donald Trump's latest round of import tariffs.
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