Former United States (US) presidential aspirant Bernie Sanders has called out the only group of Muslims that Donald Trump reportedly does not dislike.
The Federal Government has reopened the YEIDEP 2025 portal, offering Nigerian youths aged 18–35 grants of N50,000 to N500,000 with required documents.
US employment data on Friday is expected to confirm a cooled labor market, as companies pull back on hiring amid continued uncertainty over President Donald Trump's tariffs. He also pointed to the downward revisions to hiring numbers, saying that similar things have happened this year -- amid his return to the presidency in January -- and "always to the negative."
Asian markets mostly gained on Friday after an intense selloff of Chinese equities stalled this week, with rumours the country's financial regulators could intervene to slow the dumping. Analysts said the decline followed a Bloomberg report that China's financial regulators may implement measures to cool the pace of the selloff in stocks.
Tech world executives showered Donald Trump with praise Thursday during a rare dinner that saw the US president host some of the most important players in AI at the White House. Notably absent from the dinner was multi-billionaire tech tycoon Elon Musk, a former Trump ally who had a spectacular falling out with the president.
US President Donald Trump signed an order Thursday to lower tariffs on Japanese autos, as Washington moves to implement its trade pact negotiated with Tokyo. The outcome marks a win for Japan, after Tokyo's tariff envoy headed to Washington on Thursday to press Trump to sign the document for the changes -- weeks after both sides announced their agreement.
New NBS data shows kerosene prices rose month-on-month and year-on-year in July 2025, with Delta, Edo, and Rivers recording the highest litre prices.
French authorities have detained seven people in an investigation into the kidnapping of a young Swiss citizen believed to be the latest abduction targeting the hugely lucrative cryptocurrency world, a source close to the case said on Thursday.
Donald Trump's pick to join the Federal Reserve's board of governors pledged Thursday to uphold US central bank independence if confirmed, as the institution faces growing political pressure from the president to slash interest rates. The seven members of the Fed's powerful board of governors sit on the central bank's Federal Open Market Committee, which votes on interest rate decisions. bys/ksb
The naira is on a strong footing against the US dollar following foreign portfolio investors' renewed confidence in the economy and the CBN's interventions.
The US trade deficit expanded more than expected in July, government data showed Thursday, on a surge in imports analysts expect was driven by a rush to beat another wave of President Donald Trump's tariffs. Analysts at Pantheon Macroeconomics believe the growing trade gap is connected with "another wave of pre-tariff stockpiling," they said in a recent report.
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