The federal government scrapped the policy on indigenous language instruction and declared English the medium of instruction across all education levels.
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.
Ghana's government on Wednesday announced a 45-percent increase in the producer price of cocoa for the 2024/2025 crop season, in a bid to curb smuggling. "This is an unprecedented increase of 129.36 percent," Acheampong said as he announced the increase Wednesday.
Argentina's Congress on Wednesday upheld a veto by President Javier Milei of a bill to increase pensions, as protesters clashed with police outside the building. Several pensioners were among those who clashed with police or were detained.
UN experts called Wednesday for the creation of a global system to trace the extraction and production of critical minerals that are needed in the transition away from fossil fuels. And, with the IEA fearing global supplies of such minerals are running out, the UN experts also called for investment in innovation and recycling to reduce the quantities needed.
The National Bureau of Statistics has revealed that Nigeria's export trade has increased significantly, with the US and the Netherlands among the biggest customers.
Images of towering wildfires tearing through forests and leaving a national park in cinders have kept many tourists away, putting one of Canada's top industries on edge. "When we see media headlines in other countries that say Canada is on fire, that's a challenge for us," said Beth Potter, head of Canada's tourism industry association.
The Nigerian government has said it has frozen millions of naira linked two cyrptocurrency platforms, KuCoin and ByBit, involved in naira manipulation.
Iran and Iraq on Wednesday signed more than a dozen agreements to deepen already strong ties as Masoud Pezeshkian visited Baghdad on his first foreign trip as president of the Islamic republic.
Afghanistan said Wednesday work would begin on a $10 billion gas pipeline traversing South Asia as officials joined dignitaries in neighbouring Turkmenistan to celebrate its completion on that side of the border.
The Nigerian currency the naira experienced a decline again, crossing the N1,600 per dollar threshold in the official and parallel market windows.
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