Yoruba movement warns Southwest, Kogi, and Kwara governors to prepare for fallout from possible US strike on terrorists following Trump’s latest threat.
The Nigerian currency, the naira, has emerged among Africa's best-performing currencies, ranking high in a newly released report for October 2025.
The spectre of a transatlantic trade war is also fuelling hopes of a silver lining in Europe: that a commerce deal with four South American countries could get a final green light despite longstanding French opposition. In exchange, the South American nations would be able to export meat, sugar, rice and soybeans, which worries European farmers concerned about cheaper goods pricing them out.
The National Bureau of Statistics has disclosed that Nigeria's inflation rate spiked to 24.23%, caused by high food prices, which rose by almost 24%.
FG recently decided to change it revenue collection system, and now, the House of Representatives wants the company to refund N182.77 billion to FG.
Taiwanese chipmaking titan TSMC reported Thursday a surge in net profit for the first quarter and forecast robust demand for artificial intelligence technology, despite the spectre of US tariffs on the critical sector.
French luxury group Hermes said Thursday it would hike its prices in the United States to offset the impact of 10-percent import tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump. Trump imposed a 10 percent tariff on imports from around the world this month, but he delayed higher duties on dozens of other countries, including a 20 percent levy for goods from the European Union. kap/jbo/lth/ach
Uncertainty over Donald Trump's tariff blitz mounted Thursday after the Fed chief warned of rising prices and "volatility" while "progress" flagged by the US president in talks with Japan lifted markets slightly. He also noted the "volatility" in the markets at a "time of high uncertainty."
Tokyo led stocks higher Thursday as optimism over Japan-US trade talks offset Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell's warning that Donald Trump's tariffs could force officials to choose between fighting inflation or unemployment.
European Central Bank policymakers look increasingly likely to cut interest rates again on Thursday, with US President Donald Trump's stop-start tariff announcements sowing concern in the eurozone. The central bank has made six quarter-point cuts since June last year as inflation has fallen, bringing its benchmark deposit rate down to 2.5 percent from four percent.
Chip developer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on Wednesday said it expects new US licensing requirements for semiconductors exported to China to cost it as much as $800 million. AMD said in the filing that it "expects to apply for (export) licenses but there is no assurance that licenses will be granted."
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