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Iran has threatened to shift to a fully offensive military posture in the Strait of Hormuz if peace talks with the United States fail. A senior official in Tehran warned that armed units will strike to break the American naval blockade within weeks. The ultimatum marks the formal collapse of a sixty-day truce agreed in…
The Nigerian Exchange has pulled back its planned rollout of a revised equities pricing framework just hours before its scheduled start on Monday. Officials blamed the sudden pause on ongoing talks with market players. The bourse had planned to replace its uniform trading volume threshold with a tiered structure based on share prices. That blueprint…
The Central Bank of Nigeria has thrown open its Open Market Operations to retail investors for the first time in seven years. The move removes the rigid ban that previously restricted these high-yielding debt auctions exclusively to commercial lenders and foreign portfolio managers. Monetary chiefs are scrambling to mop up excess cash as pre-election spending…
A fatal Houthi missile attack on a cargo vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait killed four crew members and wounded five others. Yemen’s internationally recognized government confirmed that three ballistic missiles struck the Tanzania-flagged commercial ship Tihamah as it carried food supplies through the narrow waterway. The dead included three Pakistani sailors and one Indonesian…
Nigeria’s mega-refinery near Lagos cemented its status as Europe’s top jet fuel source for a second straight month in July. Ship tracking data shows the giant Lekki plant shipped over 400,000 tonnes of jet fuel to European ports last month. That output captured one-fifth of the continent’s entire aviation fuel import market. The Nigerian facility…
Federal civil servants are threatening industrial action as public sector unions issue a firm deadline to the Finance Ministry over withheld allowances. The Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council has demanded an urgent audience with Finance Minister Taiwo Oyedele on or before August 11. Bureaucratic delays in Abuja continue to test worker patience. Unpaid wage…
Justice Faruku Hassan Bunza of the Kebbi State High Court has regained his freedom after seven days in bandit captivity. Gunmen snatched the jurist from his residence in Bunza Local Government Area shortly after he returned from Sokoto State on July 26. Police spokesperson Bashir Usman confirmed his safe release on Monday morning following confirmation…
Nigeria and the African Development Bank have united in Abidjan to demand an immediate end to raw mineral exports across the continent. At a landmark ministerial summit, Solid Minerals Development Minister Dele Alake insisted African nations must process their critical minerals at home. The continent possesses vast reserves of battery metals and rare earth elements…
Nigeria’s public health system faces mounting pressure as Lassa fever deaths surge past two hundred. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention reported that cumulative fatalities reached two hundred and twenty-nine by week twenty-eight. Total confirmed cases climbed to nine hundred and sixty-three across twenty-three states. Fresh weekly infections rose to twenty-five following a…
United Nigeria Airlines has halted all operations to Benin Airport following an emergency runway closure. The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria ordered the immediate shutdown after an aircraft skidded off the tarmac on Thursday. Management announced that flights will remain cancelled until regulators reopen the airfield. The suspension leaves hundreds of domestic travellers stranded across…
