The 6 southwest governors have presented President Bola Tinubu with 3 major demands as they rolled out new plans and reiterated their resolve for state police.
President Bola Tinubu has said his government plans to establish 1,000 active businesses in eery ward in Nigeria, in a move to tackle economic hardship.
The prices of items have eased in Nigeria, especially in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as Sunday Dare, Presidential Spokesman releases new rates
The Nigerian government, through the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development has unveiled the prices of different housing units nationwide under RHHS.
Spain's top criminal court said Friday it had opened an investigation into executives at steelmaker Sidenor for alleged complicity in crimes against humanity or genocide for trading with an Israeli arms company. UN investigators and several human rights groups, among them Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, accuse Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.
Shoprite Nigeria is facing major struggles, with outlets in Ibadan and Ilorin shut down and several branches in Lagos and Abuja left with empty shelves.
US consumer inflation continued to heat up last month, but by less than expected, according to official data published nine days late due to the ongoing government shutdown. The data provides economists and traders with some much-needed insight into the health of the world's largest economy, with almost all other official data releases halted due to the US government shutdown.
Russia's central bank on Friday cut its benchmark interest rate and said growth had slowed to almost zero as the economy sags under the cost of the Ukraine offensive and Western sanctions. But the central bank says high rates are needed to bring down inflation that was still above eight percent in October, double the central bank's target.
China will develop its high-tech sector on a massive scale in the next decade, top officials vowed Friday, a day after meetings on the country's future policy priorities concluded in Beijing. "The new scale added in the next 10 years is expected to reshape China's high-tech sector," development official Zheng Shanjie told reporters at a news conference.
A swing group in French parliament on Friday said that if a 2026 budget bill was not changed to include a tax on the supremely wealthy, it would vote down the government. But the Socialists, a swing group in the hung National Assembly, have also demanded a tax on the ultra-rich, which Lecornu has refused and not included in the draft budget.
The Nigerian currency, the naira appreciated for the third day in a row against the US dollar in the official foreign exchange market, rising to N1,460 per dollar.
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