On Saturday, december 6, 2025, a jet belonging to the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) reportedly crashed near Karabonde, Borgu local government area of Niger State.
The Nigerian government has opened the portal for Youth Economic Intervention and De-Radicalization Programme (YEIDEP) after several postponements.
Wall Street stocks rose early Monday as markets looked ahead to a heavy week of corporate earnings and monitored the positioning of political leaders on the US government shutdown. Markets are watching the back-and-forth in Washington as the government shutdown drags on.
Shares in France's biggest bank, BNP Paribas, sank more than seven percent in trading on Monday, following a US court verdict late last week finding it liable for atrocities committed in Sudan. The big drop in BNP Paribas's shares in afternoon Paris trading outstripped a decline for other French banks, which sank around one percent.
Many popular internet services, from streaming platforms to messaging services and some banks, went offline for hours on Monday due to an outage in Amazon's crucial cloud network. The disruption affected streaming platforms, including Amazon's Prime Video service and Disney+, as well as Perplexity AI, the Fortnite game, Airbnb, Snapchat and Duolingo.
A Swedish court began hearing arguments Monday in a lawsuit brought by Swedish price comparison site Pricerunner, owned by Klarna, against tech giant Google for over $8 billion for promoting its own shopping comparisons in search results. It also said that prior to Google launching its own price comparison service, independent price comparison sites were shown high up in search results.
The Association of Chartered Certified Accounts (ACCA) has begun begun a programme in Nigerian schools to sensitise young students on Sustainable Development Goals.
Multiple expert predictions have said that the Nigerian currency will appreciate between N1,400 and N1,450 per dollar as Nigeria's inflation rate continues to fall.
A global outage hit Amazon's cloud services on Monday, the subsidiary of the US tech giant said, disrupting many websites and services including Amazon Prime, Perplexity, Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat and Duolingo. Downdetector, a website monitoring internet problems, showed the outage took down many online services.
Shares in Thyssenkrupp's naval unit surged Monday as it was spun off from the German industrial giant, highlighting the buzz around European defence firms as the continent rearms amid a growing Russian threat.
The share price of Kering, the French luxury group that owns Gucci and other brands, jumped sharply Monday after it announced the $4.6-billion sale of its beauty products division to L'Oreal. Proceeds of the sale of its beauty division, which includes its leading perfume brand Creed, will go to alleviate the 9.5 billion euros ($11 billion) in debts it has racked up.
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