Armed bandits stormed a village, abducted a bride and several wedding well-wishers in Chacho village, Wurno Local Government Area of Sokoto State.
At the 2025 National Essay Competition backed by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), young Nigerians strongly harped on tax reforms and good governance.
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.
US fossil fuel giants produce most of their oil and gas domestically but pay billions more in taxes overseas than they do at home because of subsidies that have only grown during President Donald Trump's second term, a report said Thursday.
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