Atiku Abubakar, the former vice president of Nigeria, has broken the silence, as his son dumped him for the camp of President Bola Tinubu and joined the APC.
Nigerians will face a new 7.5% VAT on digital banking services from January 2026, sparking concerns over financial strain amid criticism from consumer groups.
Despite the risks from deadly armed groups roaming the countryside, Judith Kahindo walks alone every day to her isolated cocoa plantation in the war-torn North Kivu region of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. North Kivu is primarily rich in coltan and other minerals that have fuelled the fighting that has ravaged the region for the last three decades.
Cuba suffered a general blackout on Friday caused by a crash of its national electricity grid, officials said, the fourth major power outage on the cash-strapped communist island in five months. "At around 8:15 pm tonight, a breakdown... caused the significant loss of power in western Cuba and with it the fall of the national electricity system," the Ministry of Energy and Mines said.
The presidents of Russia and Venezuela announced plans to increase energy cooperation on Friday after Washington ordered US oil giant Chevron to pull out of the Caribbean country.
US President Donald Trump's threat of 200-percent tariffs on wine, champagne and other alcoholic drinks from EU countries is proving hard to swallow in France's champagne region. But while Trump's threat was "very unfortunate", she said it was hard to believe it would stick.
The naira experienced its biggest fall on Thursday, March 13, 2025, trading at N1,549 to a dollar in the official window and N1,590 in the parallel market.
Tax exemption for any company or group of companies has to be granted by the President of the federal republic of Nigeria, and these are the conditions.
Mr. Aliko Dangote explained that the initiative will distribute bags of rice to one million poor and vulnerable Nigerians across all 774 local government areas.
France's Finance Minister Eric Lombard called the escalating US-EU trade war "idiotic" on Friday and said he would soon travel to the United States after Washington threatened huge tariffs against French wine and champagne. "By doing this, the United States is hurting itself," Lombard said, describing what he called an "idiotic war".
The illegal charter operations across these hangars constitute major security threat to the nation, as they are used for criminal purposes outside the govt radar.
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