Source has disclosed the ground plan of a prominent PDP governor who is set to officially decamp to the APC. Date and other details of the event have been revealed.
Italy's foreign minister called on the European Central Bank on Friday to reduce interest rates to weaken the euro, warning its strength was hurting his country's exporters.
British energy giant BP is set Wednesday to announce a shakeup to its strategy after a difficult trading year and as countries transition to cleaner energy. Last year, BP announced it would "significantly reduce" investment in renewable energy through the end of the decade.
Pacific microstate Nauru is selling citizenship to fund its retreat from rising seas, President David Adeang told AFP, opening a contentious "golden passport" scheme as other climate financing runs dry. - Golden passports - Existing climate funding efforts are "not sufficient" to address the challenge, said Edward Clark, who runs Nauru's new Economic and Climate Resilience Citizenship Program.
One of the world's largest rare earths producers outside China reported slumping net profits Wednesday, pointing to a "challenging" market for the hard-to-source metals used in renewable energy technologies. It bills itself as the "world's only significant producer of separated rare earth materials outside China".
Donald Trump ordered an investigation Tuesday into possible levies on US copper imports, with officials citing a need to rebuild domestic production and safeguard national security -- the latest salvo of the president's tariff threats. Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order tasking his commerce secretary with studying copper imports in order to end unfair trade.
Former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has been hospitalized in Shanghai for ear inflammation, her team said Tuesday. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva named Rousseff to lead the Shanghai-based New Development Bank (NDB) in 2023.
Japan's biggest airline ANA Holdings announced Tuesday it will purchase 77 new aircraft from Boeing, Airbus and Embraer to replenish its fleet in order to serve growing passenger demand domestically and internationally. A spokesperson for Airbus said: "We are pleased that ANA has decided to grow its fleet with a new order for 24 A321neo and three A321XLR aircraft.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that tariffs are a crucial part of President Donald Trump's economic strategy, asserting that they can be a source of government revenue to help fund investment. They are able to boost US industrial capacity, help improve national security, and can be "an important source of government revenue, which can help fund investments," he added.
Shares of the US electric vehicle pioneer Tesla slumped as much as nine percent Tuesday, as investors digested disappointing European sales and chief executive Elon Musk's aggressive foray into politics. Alongside its European struggles, Tesla also faces stiff competition from automakers like BYD in China -- a key market for electric vehicles.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has announced that Nigeria's Gross Domestic Product which measures the economic performance grew in the fourth quarter.
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