A fresh claim has identified the alleged main sponsor of the Peter Obi-Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso presidential ticket ahead of the 2027 elections in Nigeria.
The Federal Government launches the YOUTHCRED for Entrepreneurs initiative, offering loans of up to N2 million to empower 500,000 young Nigerians.
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.
A prop axe was brought in as crew members set the scene for a horror movie being filmed in Budapest's former psychiatric institute, one of numerous Hollywood productions under way in the Hungarian capital.
US President Donald Trump warned on Saturday that the airspace above and near Venezuela should be considered closed, the latest escalation in a standoff with leftist leader Nicolas Maduro.
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