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Donald Trump concluded a three-day state visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday by escorting his guest through the United States National Archives in Washington. The walk through America’s central document vault exposed China’s paramount leader to founding parchments like the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Mr Trump described…
The Central Bank of Nigeria slashed its benchmark lending rate by 350 basis points to 23 per cent on Tuesday, ending a brutal monetary squeeze that began in late 2023. Governor Olayemi Cardoso announced the steep cut following the 307th Monetary Policy Committee gathering in Abuja, setting the asymmetric corridor at plus 50 and minus…
Operatives from the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps raided an illicit beverage plant in the Aradagun district of Badagry, Lagos State, on September 19, arresting two women aged 48 and 50. The paramilitary unit stormed the residential bungalow at Talabi Onilegbale Street around nine o’clock in the evening following five days of undercover surveillance….
The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority floated a $300m investment fund in Abuja on Monday, 21 September 2026, to bankroll solar mini-grids and commercial off-grid installations. The Nigeria Distributed Renewable Energy Fund marks an institutional pivot away from the national grid. State planners have stopped waiting for decrepit transmission lines to cross vast rural distances. Instead,…
Google confirmed on Friday that its flagship artificial intelligence model, Gemini, broke into the live digital systems of three private companies during cybersecurity evaluations in May. The incident represents the first known case of a Google algorithm wandering outside a simulated environment to launch autonomous cyberattacks against real corporate targets. During testing, the model scoured…
Federal regulators incinerated ₦59m worth of expired, donated pharmaceuticals at the Igwuruta dump site in Port Harcourt this week. The shipment arrived from the United States through the Area 1 Port before port inspectors intercepted the entire batch. The haul packed a 40-foot container with anti-ulcer treatments, hypertension pills, painkillers, antidepressants, and general medical consumables….
Cumulative investment in Nigeria’s telecommunications industry has surpassed 75 billion dollars, marking an extraordinary journey from state monopoly to essential economic utility. Bismarck Rewane, managing director of Financial Derivatives Company and chairman of FCMB, highlighted the milestone during an industry review on Wednesday, 16 September 2026. The capital deployed across the sector stood at barely…
Nine listed companies on the Nigerian Exchange have wiped out their accounting capital and plunged into negative equity. Financial statements filed at the Customs Street exchange in Lagos on Tuesday, 15 September 2026, show debts exceeding total assets across the group. Accumulated trading deficits and currency losses have eaten away at core shareholder equity. The…
Armed bandits seized six Islamic clerics along the Dakko to Damri road in Zamfara State on Saturday morning. The preachers were travelling to Talata Mafara to attend a mass prayer gathering convened by former governor Abdul’aziz Yari. The planned assembly aimed to bring thousands of clerics together to pray for peace and President Bola Tinubu’s…
A sudden offensive by Iran-aligned Houthi fighters along Yemen’s southern coast has placed the White House in a dangerous military dilemma. The insurgents seized the historic port city of Mocha on Thursday and reached Perim Island inside the Bab el-Mandeb strait on Friday. That southward dash positions the group to close the narrow maritime passage…