
The Lagos state ban targets plastic materials below 40 microns, because they pose major environmental threats, clog the drainage channels and pollute the ecosystem.
The Lagos state ban targets plastic materials below 40 microns, because they pose major environmental threats, clog the drainage channels and pollute the ecosystem.
Japan's Nissan posted a huge annual net loss of $4.5 billion on Tuesday while confirming reports that it plans to cut 15 percent of its global workforce and warning about the possible impact of US tariffs. The company's shares closed three percent higher on Tuesday after reports, later confirmed by Nissan, said it was planning a total of 20,000 job cuts worldwide.
Nigeria's inflation rate increased to 24.23% in March 2025, but the World Bank projects that average inflation will decline, and provided reasons to back it.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has alerted Nigerians about fake investment funds, contracts, and loans circulating on social media, warning Nigerians to beware.
Japan's Honda Motor on Tuesday forecast a 70 percent drop in net profit for the 2025-26 financial year as US trade tariffs weigh on the global auto industry. Honda, Japan's second-biggest automaker after Toyota, logged net profit of 835 billion yen in the past financial year, a drop of almost 25 percent on-year and well short of its February forecast of 950 billion yen.
Japanese tech investor SoftBank Group, a major player in the US Stargate artificial intelligence drive, on Tuesday posted a bumper full-year net profit of $7.8 billion. Tuesday's result marked its first full-year net profit since the 2020-21 financial year.
The US tariffs barrage and the bounding cost of producing games have prompted manufacturers like Sony and Microsoft to announce price hikes on consoles, in an industry shift experts say is set to last. Microsoft plans to increase prices of games developed by its studios to as much as $80 -- a $10 hike.
Economic growth in Central Europe and the Balkans is expected to be strained this year by US President Donald Trump's tariff policies, Europe's development bank forecast Tuesday. The London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has downgraded its growth forecast for the regions, anticipating tariffs fallout owing to their heavy dependence on Germany's struggling economy.
Most Asian stocks extended gains Tuesday as investors continued to bask in the glow of the China-US tariff suspension that has fuelled hopes the world's two economic superpowers will step back from a punishing trade war.
It is arguably the world's most iconic plane, an instantly recognizable symbol of the US presidency. - A name, not a plane - Technically Air Force One is the callsign for whichever US Air Force plane, no matter how small, is carrying the US president.
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