President Bola Tinubu has ordered the withdrawal of police officers currently providing security for VIPs in Nigeria, amid public safety concerns.
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has reacted to concerns raised by former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, over the appointment of XpressPay.
Beijing and Washington "can totally find ways to resolve each other's concerns", China's commerce minister said Friday, as officials from both sides were set to meet in Malaysia for trade talks. Commerce minister Wang Wentao said Friday that the previous meetings had shown "China and the United States can totally find ways to resolve each other's concerns".
US President Donald Trump said Thursday he was ending trade talks with Canada over an anti-tariff advertising campaign, a sudden about-face soon after a cordial White House meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney.
US President Donald Trump's trip to Asia which begins Sunday carries significant economic stakes for countries around the region, with multiple tariff deals still pending and a trade dispute simmering between Washington and Beijing.
In a factory in southern Ivory Coast, where machines hum to produce chocolate bars and spreads, twin brothers dream of becoming "giants of cocoa processing". Ivory Coast, which holds its presidential election this Saturday, is the world's leading cocoa producer but only processes about 40 percent locally while the rest is exported.
Alaska Airlines said Thursday it had temporarily suspended all flights due to a tech outage, three months after a similar incident. Alaska Airlines, the fifth-largest US carrier, experienced a similar outage on July 20, which lasted about three hours.
Asian markets rallied Friday after the White House confirmed President Donald Trump would meet China's Xi Jinping next week, stoking optimism for a cooling of trade tensions between the economic superpowers.
Japanese inflation accelerated last month, official data showed Friday, ahead of a maiden policy speech by new Prime Minister Sakae Takaichi who has promised to ease pressure on households. The figures Friday showed the consumer price index jumped to 2.9 percent in September from 2.7 percent the previous month.
Germany's largest LGBTQ club SchwuZ announced on Thursday the venerable Berlin institution's lights will turn off for good on November 1, making it the latest casualty of the German capital's nightlife recession. Besides SchwuZ, Griessmuehle, Remise and Watergate are among the other Berlin venues to have turned the lights off for good as the "club death" phenomenon grips the German capital.
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic said Thursday it was expanding its use of Google cloud computing and specialized chips in a deal worth tens of billions of dollars.
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