The federal high court, Abuja, on Thursday convicted Biafra separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu on count-1 of the federal government of Nigeria’s terrorism charge.
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.
Record spending of £3 billion ($4 billion) during the summer transfer window further cements the Premier League as the "most competitive in world football", according to financial experts Deloitte.
Government gestures to calm deadly protests in Indonesia have done little to address the economic inequality and hardship fuelling the unrest, leaving deep resentment to linger and flare up again, experts say. Such conditions mean many Indonesians will still feel the economic pain in the coming months, leaving the door open for fresh protests.
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.
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