It was another sad story in the National Assembly as Senate Okey Ezea, the last man standing in the Labour Party, has reportedly died outside the country.
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.
One of Japan's best-known business people has resigned as CEO of beverage giant Suntory after police raided his house in an illegal drugs probe, the company and media reports said Tuesday. Police searched Niinami's house in August, but he has denied involvement, and no illegal drugs have been found.
Gold hit a record high Tuesday as a weaker dollar and expectations of a US interest rate cut made the safe haven an attractive investment. Gold reached $3,501.59 an ounce during early trading in Asia, soaring past its previous record of $3,500.10 in April.
The potential abuse of consumer AI tools is raising concerns, with budding cybercriminals apparently able to trick coding chatbots into giving them a leg-up in producing malicious programmes. He announced in March that he had found a technique to get chatbots to produce code that would normally infringe on their built-in limits.
Swiss food giant Nestle on Monday dismissed Laurent Freixe as chief executive with immediate effect over an "undisclosed romantic relationship with a direct subordinate". "The departure of Laurent Freixe follows an investigation into an undisclosed romantic relationship with a direct subordinate which breached Nestle's code of business conduct," a statement said.
The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has postponed the commencement of the new service charges to October 1, 2025, as it battles system glitches.
British fintech company Revolut has been valued at $75 billion in a secondary share sale, placing it in the leagues of Europe's biggest traditional banks, a source told AFP Monday. A source close to Revolut said on Monday that it is allowing employees to sell shares at a valuation of $75 billion, significantly higher than its previous $45 billion valuation.
A new report has listed the four African countries with the highest number of millionaires and centimillionaires in 2025, with Nigeria having 70,600 on the list.
Mauritania's former economy minister Sidi Ould Tah took office Monday as head of the African Development Bank, vowing to build a "robust and prosperous" continent despite US aid cuts. The 60-year-old was Mauritania's economy minister from 2008 to 2015 before heading the little-known Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa for a decade.
Thousands of Bosnian truck drivers halted deliveries across the country on Monday, threatening to block goods until their demands for more flexible travel conditions and greater support within the European Union are met.
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