Norway Blocks Rolls-Royce’s Plan To Sell Engine Maker To Russia
Norway will block Rolls-Royce from selling a Norwegian maritime engine maker to a Russian company on national security grounds, its…
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At NATO, Blinken Warns Germany Over Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday the Nord Stream 2 pipeline being built from Russia to Germany…
INEC Plans Online Voter Registration, Targets 16 Million Nigerians
IN a bid to address the cumbersome process of voter registration at the various centres in Nigeria ahead of the…
AfCTA: Nigeria Plans $50bn Intra-Africa Exports
The National Action Committee on African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement has disclosed plans to achieve economically viable communities in…
Pension Funds Gained N119.68bn From Equity In Q4 – PenCom
Pension fund investment gained N119.68bn from equity in the fourth quarter of 2020, the National Pension Commission has revealed. Figures…
Nigerian Ports Authority Seals Three Illegal Jetties
The Nigerian Ports Authority has sealed three illegal jetties in its bid to clamp down on unseaworthy barges following increasing…
Fuel Marketers Raise Diesel Price To N265 Per Litre
Against the backdrop of the recent rise in global oil prices, some fuel marketers have increased the price of Automotive…
Forex Trader Remanded For Defrauding Investors Of N17.4m, $6,300
A self-acclaimed foreign exchange trader, Nanpan Yaniyang, has been remanded by the Lagos State High Court for allegedly defrauding investors…
Only 47 Money Transfer Operators Are Licensed – Central Bank Of Nigeria
The Central Bank of Nigeria has released the list of 47 International Money Transfer Operators that are licensed to operate…
COVID-19: Federal Government Raises Alarm Over Racketeering Of Vaccines
The Federal Government on Monday in Abuja raised alarm over reported racketeering of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines in some of the…
Politically Correct? Bond Market Steers Clear Of Judgment Calls
When Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in 2018, London-based hedge fund manager Dominic Armstrong bet investors would be turned…
UK Jobless Rate Unexpectedly Drops To 5.0%
Britain’s jobless rate unexpectedly fell to 5.0% in the three months to January, when the country entered a new COVID…
England Slaps New 5,000 Pound Fine On Travel Abroad
Fines of 5,000 pounds ($6,900) will be introduced from next week for people from England who try to travel abroad…
Billionaire Leon Black Is Leaving Apollo Following Scrutiny Over Ties To Jeffrey Epstein
Leon Black is completely stepping away from running private equity firm Apollo Global Management amid scrutiny over the billionaire’s ties to…
Turkey’s Lira Plunges After Erdogan Fires Central Bank Head
urkey could be on the cusp of another currency crisis after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan abruptly fired the head of the country’s central bank,…
Hadiza Bala Usman: Export Cargoes Barred From Lagos Ports For Two Weeks
The NPA boss told Radio Now 95.3 FM in an interview monitored by TheCable that the suspension is effective Monday,…
FINMA Chief To Head Up German Financial Watchdog BaFin: Handelsblatt
Mark Branson, the head of Switzerland’s financial markets regulator FINMA, is to be named the new President of German financial…
Huawei Lawyers To Focus On Witness Refusal To Testify In U.S. Extradition
Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou’s U.S. extradition hearings on Monday are expected to focus on a former Canadian police…
Turkish Lira Plunges To Near Record Low After Erdogan Sacks Central Bank Chief
Turkey’s lira briefly fell 15% to near its all-time low on Monday after President Tayyip Erdogan’s shock weekend ousting of…
Minimum Wage: National Assembly Raises Panel To Avert Strike
The Clerk to the National Assembly, Olatunde Ojo, has constituted a nine-member committee to fashion out modalities for the implementation…
Saudi Aramco To Prioritise Energy Supply To China For 50 Years, Says CEO
Saudi Aramco will ensure China’s energy security remains its highest priority for the next 50 years and beyond as new…
Federal Government Discovers Gold Deposit Along Abuja-Nasarawa Border
Adegbite paid Abdullahi Sule, the Nasarawa state governor, a courtesy visit in Abuja on Wednesday. The minister said the mineral…
Alleged $2.5bn Arms Scandal: Stop Peddling Fictional Tales, APC Tells PDP
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to wake up to its responsibility of providing…
China Bans Tesla Cars In Military Complexes On Concerns About Cameras.
The Chinese military has banned Tesla Inc’s cars from military complexes and housing compounds because of concerns about sensitive data…
UK’s Taylor Wimpey, Countryside Asked To Drop Unfair Ground Rent Terms
British homebuilders Taylor Wimpey and Countryside Properties must remove contract terms that lock leaseholders into rents that double every 10…
Nearly A Dozen Countries Resume AstraZeneca Shots After EU, UK Regulators Say Benefits Outweigh Risks
Nearly a dozen countries resumed use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 shots on Friday as EU and British regulators said the benefits…
Kano Consumer Council Impounds N300m Expired Drugs
THE Kano State Consumer Protection Council on Thursday confiscated fake drugs worth over N300 million following raids on a warehouse…
Rivers Court Denies Dutch Couple Bail Over $330,000 Oil Vessel Fraud
A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Thursday denied a Dutch national, Pieter Borremans and his…
Sirika Seeks Private Sector Support For Aviation Infrastructure
Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has stressed the need for Nigeria to attract private investors that will support the funding…
Consumers Lament Tariff Increment Amidst Economic Downturn
Prepaid electricity consumers have decried increase in tariff endorsed by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC). They said it was…