President Bola Tinubu has declared a nationwide security emergency following a series of banditry attacks and rolled out four directives for security agencies.
The Federal Government has reopened the YEIDEP 2025 portal, offering Nigerian youths aged 18–35 grants of N50,000 to N500,000 with required documents.
The head of the left-leaning US news channel MSNBC has quit, a source at the network told AFP Tuesday, just days before Donald Trump returns to the White House threatening to silence critical coverage.
The Panama Canal will remain Panamanian, the secretary general of the United Nation's maritime body told AFP on Tuesday, after Donald Trump refused to rule out using military force to seize the key waterway.
Online retailer Amazon has purchased 202 electric Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 vehicles from Germany's Daimler Truck, the automaker said Tuesday, marking both firms' largest-ever order for battery-powered lorries. Daimler Truck, one of the world's largest truck manufacturers by volume, last year delivered 4,035 electric vehicles out of more than 460,000 worldwide.
The leader of breakaway Moldovan region Transnistria visited Moscow recently for talks on resolving its energy crisis, local media reported Tuesday. It did not say when Krasnoselsky visited or give details on who he talked to, but some Moldovan media outlets reported he travelled to Russia on Friday and returned on Tuesday.
Amazon will invest more than $5 billion in a data center in central Mexico, the e-commerce giant said on Tuesday, part of a push by big tech to add more storage facilities to meet the needs of AI. The director of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Latin America, Paula Bellizia, announced the investment at President Claudia Sheinbaum's regular morning news conference in Mexico City.
Nigeria's digital currency, the eNaira, has recovered most of its value, rising by 78.8% to N18.32 billion in the first 10 months of 2024, CBN's data says.
Technology and telecommunications companies reportedly owe banks about N1.69 trillion in the past year due mainly to rising interest rates by CBN.
The United States finalized a rule Tuesday effectively barring Chinese technology from cars in the American market, taking aim at software and hardware from the world's second biggest economy over national security risks.
Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Spruengli announced Tuesday that it would raise prices again in 2025 after strong sales last year showed that increases had not cut the appetite of consumers. The company posted organic sales growth -- which excludes currency fluctuations and acquisitions -- of 7.8 percent in 2024 to 5.47 billion Swiss francs ($6 billion).
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