The ruling APC has announced the seventh governor of PDP has dumped the party and joined its folds, now controlling second geopolitical zone in Nigeria.
The Nigerian government has announced that individuals earning N100,000 and below are exempted from paying the newly introduced Personal Income Tax (PIT).
Players line up inside Nintendo's booth at a Japanese game fair to try upcoming Switch 2 titles, but, for once, the company's chirpy red-capped mascot Mario is nowhere to be seen.
The official foreign exchange window and the parallel market have finally converged to less than N2 as the naira depreciated to N1,533.11 and N1,532, respectively.
A total of 30 stocks performed impressively in the trading session, making investors richer at the end of the day. The major cement manufacturers topped the list.
Nigeria's headline inflation has dropped from 22.97% in May to 22.22% in June, representing a 0.75 per cent decline, with some states recording low inflation.
North Korea has barred foreigners from a newly opened beach resort, the country's tourism administration said this week, just days after Russia's top diplomat visited the area. But following Lavrov's visit, the North's National Tourism Administration said "foreign tourists are temporarily not being accepted" without giving further details, in a statement posted on an official website this week.
China is prepared to take measures and has a "plentiful" toolbox to avoid an economic slump in the second half of the year, its commerce minister said Friday as he admitted it faced a "very severe and complex situation". "We are still facing a very severe and complex situation.
Asian markets headed into the weekend on a broadly positive note Friday, as investors took up New York's latest record highs sparked by healthy US retail data and upbeat earnings from some of Wall Street's big names. "Cost-of-living concerns have dominated the campaign for this weekend's upper house election," wrote Stefan Angrick, head of Japan and frontier markets economics at Moody's Analytics.
Small and medium-sized firms like Mitsuwa Electric that form the backbone of Japan's economy have weathered many storms over the decades, and company president Yuji Miyazaki is hopeful they will also withstand Donald Trump. With 100 employees, Mitsuwa Electric is not a household name.
California will sue President Donald Trump's administration over its decision to cancel billions of dollars in federal funding for the construction of a long-delayed high-speed rail line, the state's governor said Thursday.
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