Nnamdi Kanu files motion at Federal High Court seeking transfer from Sokoto to facilitate appeal against life sentence. Hearing adjourned to December 8.
The Nigerian government has opened the portal for Youth Economic Intervention and De-Radicalization Programme (YEIDEP) after several postponements.
Britain's government said Monday it would no longer provide TotalEnergies with a loan for a gas project in Mozambique that the French group halted over a jihadist attack.
The naira has rebounded, starting December on a strong footing following the sale of $36.60 million by CBN to authorised dealers in the forex market.
The latest data from NELFund shows that 788,947 students have benefited from the student loan scheme to date, with total loans disbursed at N140.88 billion.
Asian equities were mixed Monday with investors awaiting the release of key US data that could play a role in Federal Reserve deliberations ahead of an expected interest rate cut next week. After last week's healthy gains and Wall Street's strong Thanksgiving rally, Asian equities were mixed.
Sales by the world's top 100 arms makers reached a record $679 billion last year, as the wars in Ukraine and Gaza boosted demand, researchers said Monday, but production issues hampered deliveries.
A long-lost painting by 17th-century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens sold at auction in France on Sunday for almost three million euros -- well beyond its asking price. Osenat, whose auction house sold the painting for 2.94 million euros ($3.41 million) against an expected 1-2 million euros, found the painting as he was preparing the property to be sold.
The Abia state governor, Alex Otti, has announced plans to begin the gradual payment of 20-year gratuity to pensioners, setting aside N60 billion for the scheme.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has intervened in the foreign exchange market, selling $36.60 million to authorised dealers as the naira depreciated.
A worker in white gloves inspects the propellers of a boxy two-seater aircraft fresh off the assembly line at a Chinese factory trialling the mass production of flying cars. The lightweight six-propeller aircraft under construction take off vertically and fit into a large car, to create the "Land Aircraft Carrier" -- a modular flying vehicle made by Aridge, an arm of Chinese EV maker XPeng.
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