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13 Sep
Nigeria’s FTSE downgrade from frontier market to unclassified will cause a colossal damage to the capital market and erode investor confidence, unless urgent steps are taken to reverse the trend, experts have said.
2 Jun
The peaceful transition to a new administration, coupled with its blunt expression of willingness to tackle lingering macroeconomic challenges facing the economy, especially the foreign exchange (forex) crisis has caused the equities market to gain N1.8 trillion in May 2023.
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The world's largest regional security body convened in North Macedonia on Thursday amid controversy, with Ukraine Poland and the Baltic states boycotting the summit in protest at the presence of Russia. Created in 1975 as a forum for dialogue between the Eastern and Western blocs, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) --…
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Gunmen killed three people and wounded several more in Jerusalem on Thursday, Israeli police said, in an attack shortly after an truce in the Israel-Hamas war was extended. Police said the two assailants from annexed east Jerusalem opened fire on people near a bus stop on the western side of Jerusalem, where there are no…
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The eurozone's second-largest economy France shrank slightly in the third quarter, official data showed Thursday, while the inflation weighing on consumers eased in November. Gross domestic product (GDP) retreated by 0.1 percent in July-September, statistics authority INSEE said, returning close to flatline following a strong second-quarter expansion. INSEE pointed to revitalised household consumption over the…
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Nollywood actress Shaffy Bello has opened up about her experiences of being called by her first name by younger people, revealing that she finds it disrespectful. In a recent appearance on the Me, Her And Everything Else podcast, Bello shared her thoughts on the matter, emphasizing that she prefers to be called "Ma'am" as a…
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Armenia and Azerbaijan on Thursday revived talks over their shared border, Armenian officials said, as normalisation negotiations between the arch-foes stalled after Baku reclaimed the long-disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region from Armenian separatists. Baku and Yerevan have been locked in a decades-long conflict for control of Azerbaijan's formerly Armenian-populated Karabakh region, which Baku recaptured in a lightning…
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The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has demolished a mini market allegedly being used in publishing forged vehicle papers and other documents. The market, located in Mabushi, opposite the headquarters of the Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS), FCTA, was demolished on Wednesday, by the Department of Development Control, FCTA. The Director, Dr Abdulatef Bello,…
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The Lagos State Government on Wednesday says it has commenced the distribution of Eko Rice to various major markets in the state, ahead of the Yuletide. Dr Oluwarotimi Fashola, Special Adviser to the State Governor on Agriculture, stated this during a facility tour of the Lagos Rice Mill, Imota, in Ikorodu area of Lagos State.…
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The United Nations welcomed on Tuesday the increase in aid deliveries into Gaza afforded by a temporary truce but warned it was not enough to even start addressing the Palestinian territory's massive needs. UN children's agency UNICEF said the aid flow to the northern Gaza Strip -- the largest since the Israel-Hamas war erupted on…
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Gov. Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra has appointed Prof. Kate Omenugha as the acting Vice Chancellor of the state-owned Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University. Mr Christian Aburime, Press Secretary to Soludo disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. Omenugha is a professor of Mass Communication at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, and the immediate past Commissioner for…
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Seventeen Thai hostages kidnapped and held for weeks by Hamas in the Gaza Strip landed Thursday in Bangkok, where overjoyed relatives waited to welcome them home. Tens of thousands of Thais were working in Israel, mostly in the agricultural sector, when Palestinian militants poured over the border on October 7, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians,…