The Ebonyi State House of Assembly has passed a legislation to regulate scrap trading, house rents and estate agent fees in a bid to curb vandalism, environmental degradation and exploitative practices in the housing sector. The bill, titled “The Ebonyi State Sale of Scraps, House Rent and Agent Fees Regulation Law, 2026”, was passed at…
Iran on Saturday accused the United States of violating the peace deal agreed to end the Middle East war, after Washington launched strikes on Iranian territory and Tehran responded with attacks on US targets in the Gulf. The trading of fire, which came after Washington accused Tehran of attacking a cargo ship in the Strait…
Russia and Mali have strengthened their cooperation following the second session of their intergovernmental commission held in Kazan. Three memorandums of understanding were signed in the fields of transport, industry, and trade. These agreements pave the way for closer collaboration, particularly in modernizing infrastructure and developing Mali’s railway network. Malian authorities believe these commitments will…
Guinea has reached a settlement agreement with Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) and its local subsidiary Guinea Alumina Corporation (GAC), ending an 18 month dispute that halted bauxite shipments and led to the revocation of GAC’s mining licence, according to a joint statement issued after negotiations supervised by the Paris Bar Association. Under the terms of…
US President Donald Trump said the ceasefire with Iran was still in place despite an Iranian attack on three American destroyers in the Strait of Hormuz that fanned fears Friday that the truce was faltering. The US military said it carried out strikes on Iranian military targets in response, although Tehran charged that it was…
There’s angst in the air on college campuses and in offices across the country. Successive warnings on AI’s looming threat to automate swaths of entry-level white-collar work have put workers in a precarious position. And several large-scale layoffs this year have brought home the reality of those warnings. But not everyone is buying into the…
The member states of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, held talks with Togo on October 3 to advance plans for modernising and harmonising their customs information systems. The discussions, which took place in Bamako, were announced in a statement by the Malian government’s press service. The meeting brought together…
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has described the demolition of buildings at the Lagos Trade Fair Complex as heartbreaking. Speaking on Friday during President Bola Tinubu’s visit to Abia State for the commissioning of projects executed by the Governor Alex Otti administration, Kalu said the exercise “makes our hearts bleed.” The…
The CBN’s monetary policymakers have warned that recent gains in stabilising the economy could be undermined by global trade tensions, oil market volatility and domestic cost pressures, even as inflation shows signs of easing. At the July meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), members noted that year-on-year inflation has begun to moderate and that…
White House senior counselor for trade and manufacturing Peter Navarro said Sunday that President Donald Trump’s tariffs are not permanent as he sought to undercut a ruling from a federal court that dealt a major blow to the administration’s trade policy. On Friday night, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that most of…
