Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has pledged to enshrine rotational presidency in Nigeria's constitution if he wins the 2027 general elections.
Nigeria's YEIDEP offers grants up to ₦500,000 to tackle unemployment, fostering entrepreneurship and creating 20 million jobs by 2026. Nigerians aged 18-50 can apply
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa unveiled Wednesday a plan to revive South Africa's flagging local governments, weeks after publicly criticising the state of the financial capital Johannesburg as it prepares to host the G20 summit in November.
The European Union is accelerating free trade talks with Asia following hefty tariffs by US President Donald Trump, the bloc's trade chief said Wednesday. He was speaking in Singapore after signing a digital trade agreement between the EU and the city-state on Wednesday.
Mexico will fight to keep its free trade agreement with the United States and Canada in the face of President Donald Trump's trade war, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) replaced the previous NAFTA accord in July 2020, after Trump successfully pushed for a renegotiation during his first term in office.
After months of battling gas supply problems, Nigeria's number one gas supplier, NLNG, has entered a deal with Seplat that has the potential to change the situation.
Foreign exchange inflows into the Nigerian forex market dropped significantly in April following the ongoing global tariff war and falling crude oil prices.
The EU is preparing to hit US goods worth nearly 100 billion euros ($113 billion) with tariffs in retaliation for President Donald Trump's sweeping levies if talks fail, European diplomats told AFP Wednesday.
Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Wednesday EU countries should "quickly" ratify a free trade deal with four South American nations that has met with staunch opposition from France. "The Mercosur deal should be ratified quickly and implemented," Merz said at a joint press conference with President Emmanuel Macron as he visited Paris on his first trip abroad.
The Walt Disney Company on Wednesday unveiled plans for a new theme park in the United Arab Emirates, underscoring the country's emergence as a financial and entertainment global hub. Disney's announcement came ahead of US President Donald Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates next week.
Germany's new Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said Wednesday there was "no time to lose" to jump-start Europe's beleaguered top economy, even as hardline US trade policies complicate his task. Klingbeil also said that he would speak with European finance ministers Wednesday and that a key challenge would be finding ways of boosting investment using EU institutions.
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