SHELL AGREES TO SELL NIGERIAN ONSHORE SUBSIDIARY, SPDC FOR $2.4BN
Shell Plc said it has “reached an agreement to sell its Nigerian onshore subsidiary, The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited.” The SPDC is...
TRUMP’S TRIAL FOR DEFAMATION IN SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE RESUMES
Donald Trump is expected to be back in court Tuesday in New York for a civil case in which he has already been found liable...
UK VARSITIES FALLING INTO DEFICIT AS FOREIGN STUDENTS REDUCE — REPORT
The decline in international students after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s ban on bringing dependants into the UK is causing many UK universities to face financial...
NAIRA DROPS TO N1089/$ ON OFFICIAL I&E WINDOW
On Tuesday, the official investor and exporter window saw a drop in the value of the naira to N1089.51/$. The currency dropped by 27.19 percent...
POPE CALLS FOR SURROGACY BAN
On Monday, Pope Francis demanded that surrogacy be outlawed worldwide, calling the practice of a woman bearing another person's child "deplorable." The action of a woman...
JAPAN EARTHQUAKE DEATH TOLL HITS 110
Rescuers and residents sifted through rubble Saturday as focus turned to recovering bodies and cleaning up rather than finding survivors, five days after a huge...
SAUDI ARABIA, UAE, 3 MENA COUNTRIES FORMALLY JOIN BRICS BLOC
By Sefiu Ajape Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), alongside three more countries from the broader Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region,...
‘MASSIVE’ RUSSIAN STRIKES KILL MORE THAN 30 ACROSS UKRAINE
Russia launched a massive air attack over Ukraine on Friday, killing at least 30 people and wounding scores across the country in the fiercest assault...
GAZA WAR WILL LAST ‘MANY MORE MONTHS’, SAYS ISRAEL ARMY CHIEF
Israel again pounded Gaza with air strikes and shelling on Wednesday after its armed forces chief warned the war raging with Hamas since the October...
SENEGAL NAVY SEIZES $210m COCAINE
The Senegalese navy has seized three tonnes of cocaine worth at least $210 million from a seven-crew boat moored off the coast, the force said...