Shehu Sani said Atiku Abubakar can contest Nigeria’s 2027 presidency, but warned that ignoring rotational power could end fairness and hurt the North in 2031.
Nigeria’s states and the FCT generated N5.15 trillion in IGR in 2025, with Lagos leading at N1.77 trillion while Yobe recorded the lowest revenue at N16.01 billion.
Sri Lanka's new leftist leader has drawn strong support from an unlikely source as he seeks to expand his three parliamentary seats to a house majority in elections on Thursday. Voting opens Thursday at 7:00 am (0130 GMT) for 8,880 candidates contesting 225 seats in parliament, with initial results expected as early as Friday morning.
Traders struggled Tuesday to bounce back from the previous day's losses in most markets sparked by disappointment over China's economic support measures, while keeping tabs on the United States as president-elect Donald Trump builds his cabinet.
"We used to hate elephants a lot," Kenyan farmer Charity Mwangome says, pausing from her work under the shade of a baobab tree. It is also expensive -- about 150,000 Kenyan shillings ($1,100) to install hives -- well beyond the means of subsistence farmers, though the project organisers say it is still cheaper than electric fences.
Australia will move to stem the exodus of its banks from the Pacific Islands, the country's top economic official said, as concerns mount that China could bolster its influence by filling in the gaps. Australia and China are locked in "a state of permanent contest in the Pacific", Australia's foreign minister said earlier this year.
The Italian government and Lufthansa reached a deal on the sale of a stake in flag carrier ITA Airways to the German airline, Rome announced Monday evening, hours before a midnight deadline to present the agreement to European regulators.
The presidents of the United States, China and other Asia Pacific nations gather in Lima this week for an economic summit overshadowed by the prospect of a world embroiled in trade wars under Donald Trump.
Beleaguered aviation giant Boeing reached a last-minute settlement Monday with the family of a woman killed in the crash of a 737 MAX jetliner in 2019, averting a federal civil trial.
The liquidators of the defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX have sued to try to claw back $1.8 billion paid by the company to competitor Binance the year before its bankruptcy, according to court documents filed Sunday. After FTX filed for bankruptcy in November 2022, a liquidation plan for the company's assets was approved in early October by federal judge John Dorsey.
Huge cranes loom over Peru's massive new Chinese-funded Chancay port, a symbol of Beijing's growing influence in South America which is set to be inaugurated by President Xi Jinping on Thursday.
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