Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers has made a satirical comment about the impeachment notice earlier served him by the State House of Assembly.
In October 2025, the Nigerian government launched a 12-month paid internship programme to provide training for the youth, with a N150,000 monthly stipend.
Shares in chipmaker Intel skyrocketed on Thursday after AI giant Nvidia announced it would invest $5 billion in its struggling rival. Nvidia joins Japanese investment giant SoftBank and the US government in backing the once-dominant chipmaker, which has fallen behind in recent years after missing key technology shifts.
Mexico's president will host the leader of Canada for trade talks Thursday as they seek to navigate the tariff war launched by Donald Trump despite the existence of a three-way free-trade agreement.
The IMF has proposed appointing the US Treasury Department's chief of staff as its new number-two official, the Washington-based lender said Thursday. Katz, who is chief of staff at the Treasury Department, was a senior official in the department during Trump's first term as well.
Cyberattacks and sabotage, mainly from Russia and China, have caused record damages for German firms this year, the domestic spy service and a business group warned Thursday. While last year 39 percent of firms said they had been targeted by Russia, this year that number rose to 46 percent, with the same number reporting an attack from China.
A previously unknown portrait by Pablo Picasso of one of his lovers was revealed on Thursday after being put up for sale at auction in Paris with a reserve price of eight million euros ($9.5 million). Other paintings of Dora Maar have sold for many times more than the reserve price of $9.5 million for "Bust of a Woman With a Flowery Hat".
Donald Trump hailed America's "unbreakable bond" with Britain Thursday as he and Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a huge tech deal on the second day of the US president's pomp-filled state visit. Trump said the deal was "very big", and added of US relations with key NATO ally Britain that "it's an unbreakable bond we have regardless of what we're doing today."
About seven million Nigerian families will receive cash transfers before the end of 2025, as the Nigerian government has said it has disbursed N300bn to Nigerians
The Bank of England kept its key interest rate at four percent Thursday, as elevated UK inflation offsets the country's stagnant economic growth. Elsewhere Thursday, Norway's central bank reduced interest rates to four percent to avoid putting pressure on the country's economy.
Will Shu, founder of food delivery app Deliveroo, will step down as its chief executive once US rival DoorDash completes a takeover of the British group, a statement said Thursday. "Taking Deliveroo from being an idea to what it is today has been amazing," Shu said in the statement.
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