Middle East: Flight Fares Soar as War Traps Thousands

Middle East: Flight Fares Soar as War Traps Thousands

A desperate exodus is underway across the Middle East as the United States-Israeli conflict with Iran grounded commercial aviation. Tens of thousands of travellers are stranded following the cancellation of over 23,000 flights since Saturday. Airspace closures have funneled the remaining traffic through a few strained hubs in Dubai, Riyadh, and Muscat. Panic is rising…

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Nigeria Woos EU Investment to Revive Steel

Nigeria Woos EU Investment to Revive Steel

Nigeria is attempting to pivot from a raw materials exporter to a value-adding industrial power. Delivering a keynote address at the Nigeria–German Economic Forum in Dortmund this week (March 3–5, 2026), Steel Development Minister Shuaibu Abubakar Audu said the country needs European partners to fix its broken industrial chain. The government wants to stop shipping…

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US Eases Russia Sanctions for Stranded Oil to India

  The United States government has temporarily relaxed its economic sanctions against Russia to allow a consignment of Russian crude oil and petroleum products, currently stranded aboard vessels at sea, to be sold to India, the Treasury Department announced on Thursday. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a Russia-related general licence titled…

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Google Expands AI Search To Yoruba, Hausa Languages

  Technology company Google has expanded language support for its Artificial Intelligence powered search features to include Yorùbá and Hausa, a development the company says will allow more Nigerians to interact with advanced search tools in their native languages. The announcement was disclosed in a statement on Thursday by Google’s Communications and Public Affairs Manager…

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Senate Summons NNPCL Execs Over N210 Trillion Black Hole

  Nigeria’s Senate Committee on Public Accounts has intensified its oversight of the nation’s oil sector by summoning three former top executives of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited to address audit queries revealing N210 trillion in unaccounted funds between 2017 and 2023. The committee, led by Senator Aliyu Wadada from Nasarawa West, issued the…

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