Nigerians are groaning under the hardship caused by inflation. The price of filling a 5kg cylinder of cooking gas increased by 10%, while 12.5kg increased by 32.5%.
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UK govt races against time to keep steel furnaces running
Britain's government on Monday raced to secure raw materials to keep the country's last steelmaking blast furnaces running after passing emergency legislation to take control of British Steel. The Labour-run government must now secure the materials to keep the two blast furnaces at the plant -- the last in the UK which makes steel from scratch -- running.
Meta faces landmark US antitrust trial
Social media juggernaut Meta stands trial on Monday facing serious US government allegations that it abused its market power to acquire Instagram and WhatsApp before they could become competitors. Google is facing two cases and was found guilty of search-market dominance abuse last August, while Apple and Amazon are also heading to court.
FG's new law bans unregistered online forex platforms, others, details emerge
The SEC statement also issued a directive to businesses already operating in this space, or planning to set up an online foreign exchange trading platform.
“Profits will be recovered”: SEC to prosecute Ponzi scheme operators, others under new Act
Where the former Investments and Securities Act (2007) had no clear penalties for Ponzi and illegal scheme operators, the new ISA 2025 recommends heavy sanctions.
Helicopter company that ran deadly New York tour shuts down
The helicopter tour company behind a crash in New York that killed six people last week is shutting down, US authorities said Sunday.
FG to sanction procurement officers, contractors over bloated contracts
The Bureau of Public Procurement DG noted that the audit carried out, had uncovered several irregularities going on with procurements and contracts in MDAs.
Xi warns protectionism 'leads nowhere' as he arrives in Vietnam
Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned that protectionism "leads nowhere" and that a trade war would have "no winners", state media said, as he arrived in Vietnam on Monday on the first leg of a Southeast Asia tour.
China's exports beat forecast in March despite trade war woes
China said Monday that exports soared 12.4 percent year-on-year last month, beating expectations as Beijing navigated mounting trade headwinds sparked by US President Donald Trump. "The strong export data reflect frontloading of trade before the US tariffs were announced," Zhiwei Zhang, President and Chief Economist at Pinpoint Asset Management said in a note.
Trump tariff rollercoaster complicates ECB rate call
US President Donald Trump's on-and-off tariffs have clouded the picture for European Central Bank policymakers meeting this week to decide whether to lower eurozone interest rates again. But Trump's move to impose sweeping tariffs on the European Union and the rest of the world increased the chances of another reduction in interest rates, according to observers.
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