A popular and influential governorship aspirant has resigned from his party amid the PDP versus APC saga. You should see the latest development ahead of 2027.
The naira gained against the dollar, pound and euro as forex supply improved, while turnover fell 59% and the official-parallel dollar gap narrowed to 2.88%.
Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict. "Most of the farmers who plant poppy are displaced," he said.
The Japanese government began a rare auction on Monday of its emergency rice stockpiles in a bid to help drive down the surging price of the national staple. Japan stores about a million tons of rice for emergencies.
Shares in Hong Kong and Shanghai sank Monday on a mixed day for Asian markets after data showing Chinese consumer prices slipped back into deflation stoked fresh concerns over the world's number two economy.
Top energy industry figures converge on Houston this week for their biggest gathering since Donald Trump returned to the White House to champion fossil fuels and undo Joe Biden's climate legacy. - The schedule for the five-day Houston CERA gathering lists three top Trump appointees, including Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who will open the proceedings on Monday morning.
The Japanese owner of 7-Eleven said Monday it had agreed to jointly explore store sell-offs with Alimentation Couche-Tard (ACT) to address antitrust concerns ahead of a potential merger.
Billionaire industrialist and senior White House advisor Elon Musk vowed Sunday to maintain Ukraine's access to his Starlink satellite network, after a fierce online clash with Poland's outspoken foreign minister.
President Donald Trump declined in an interview aired Sunday to rule out the possibility that the United States might enter a recession this year. But Trump's commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, was more definitive when asked Sunday about the possibility of a recession.
Local goeverment chairmen, via the Board of Trustees of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) has raised alarm of CBN plans to control its funds.
Washington has declined to renew a sanctions waiver that allowed Iraq to buy electricity from neighbouring Iran, a spokesperson for the American embassy in Baghdad said on Sunday. "On March 8, the U.S. Department of State did not renew the waiver for Iraq to purchase Iranian electricity," the US embassy spokesperson said.
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