A fresh report has revealed details of an air force officer who was detailed to kill NSA Nuhu Ribadu, in an alleged failed coup to eliminate President Bola Tinubu.
The Nigerian government has announced a new date to disburse the $2.5 billion Youth Economic Intervention and De-Radicalisation Programme (YEIDEP) fund.
Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba soared on Monday but Asian and European markets were mixed after Wall Street retreated from record highs. On Friday US stocks fell, with the Dow and S&P 500 retreating from record highs ahead of the long Labor Day weekend.
Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou has overtaken Tokyo-Yokohama to become the world's top cluster for innovation, the United Nations said Monday. The agency said Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou and Tokyo-Yokohama "make a massive contribution to global scientific publications and patenting outputs", together accounting for nearly one in five patent applications filed globally.
In early morning gloom, a long line of vehicles winds around the lone fuel station in Dedza district in central Malawi, one of many overnight queues for petrol across the country. The fuel queues are the clearest manifestation of this failure.
Nilfar Nazarova used to work as an accountant in her native Uzbekistan but for the past four summers she has been cleaning hotel rooms in the Bulgarian Black Sea resort of Albena. "The work is hard but the people are kind," Uzbek student Gulraykhan Muxanbetovna said as she bustled around the crowded restaurant of a four-star hotel overlooking the Black Sea.
Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba boosted the Hang Seng on Monday, but other Asian markets mostly fell back after Wall Street retreated from record highs. On Friday US stocks fell, with the Dow and S&P 500 retreating from record highs ahead of the long Labor Day weekend.
Check out the eight Nigerian states, concluding Lagos, Ogun and Rivers, with the strongest industrial bases for economic growth and job creation potential.
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said on Sunday the destiny of France was at stake in a forthcoming confidence vote, which he called to resolve a budget standoff but is expected to lose. Seven out of 10 French people say they want Bayrou to lose the confidence vote, according to a recent poll.
The financial technology company, Palmpay, has announced the launch of the N500,000 Hustle Grant for Nigerians to scale their side businesses nationwide.
The naira appreciated in the official and parallel markets last week as investors poured dollars into CBN OMO auctions and Nigeria's FX reserves hit a new high.
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