Armed bandits stormed a village, abducted a bride and several wedding well-wishers in Chacho village, Wurno Local Government Area of Sokoto State.
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.
South Korean cryptocurrency specialist Do Kwon pleaded guilty to fraud charges in front of a New York judge on Tuesday following his firm's multi-billion-dollar bankruptcy, court filings showed.
South Africa will offer a "generous" new trade deal to the United States on Tuesday to avoid 30-percent tariffs, government ministers said. "When the document is eventually made public, I think you would see it as a very broad, generous and ambitious offer to the United States on trade," Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen said at a press briefing.
Stock markets rose on Tuesday as US inflation data showed a still-subdued impact from US President Donald Trump's tariffs. Stock markets in Asia rose on the news, with Tokyo hitting a record.
Consumer inflation in the United States held steady in July, data showed Tuesday, but underlying price increases picked up as President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs ripple through the world's biggest economy. From a year ago, underlying inflation rose 3.1 percent, picking up pace too.
The European Union is ready to do a deal to land a groundbreaking treaty on plastic pollution, but not at any cost, the EU's environment commissioner insisted Tuesday. However, we don't like plastic pollution and it's time to end plastic pollution as quickly as possible," the commissioner said.
Embattled property giant China Evergrande Group said Tuesday it will delist from Hong Kong Stock Exchange as a heavier-than-expected debt burden weighed on its liquidation process. Evergrande's shares on the Hong Kong stock exchange were suspended that month.
Zaach Adedeji, the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), has introduced a series of reforms, which have transformed the service into people-centric
Labourer Shuai Hang went a week without work earlier this year when sky-high US tariffs on Chinese goods overwhelmed the warehouse he works at and slowed the company's US-bound parcels to a trickle. Working at the warehouse was less tiring than labouring at a construction site, and earning money had become more difficult in the past two years, he said.
Two new controversial policies by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have sparked strong condemnation from industry stakeholders flagged the charges as punitive.
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