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His Student Loan Payment Just Went from $0 to Over $600. He Works Three Jobs to Cope.
Luke Helton earns $66,000 a year across three jobs but expects to be crushed by a surge in his federal student loan paym...
FCC's China Robot Ban Divides Industry: US Manufacturers Cheer as Startups Fret Over Lost Access
The FCC has banned new imports of advanced Chinese robots, citing national security. Domestic manufacturers applaud, but...
Flock's License Plate Readers Misread 71% of Alerts in Roseville, Records Show
Internal police records reveal that Flock Safety's AI cameras incorrectly read plates in 71% of stolen vehicle alerts ov...
Aging Is a Controllable Biological System — Here’s How Science Says You Can Stabilize It
Research now frames aging as a dynamic system driven by metabolism, chronic inflammation, and epigenetic regulation. Thi...
HillCrest Agro-Allied Lists N11.73bn Commercial Paper on FMDQ Exchange for Rice Mill Expansion
Nigerian rice miller HillCrest Agro-Allied Industries has secured quotations for N2.42bn Series 1 and N9.31bn Series 2 C...
Tinubu Tells Governors to Drop Low-Traffic Flyovers, Invest in Roads and Security
President Bola Tinubu urged state governors to stop building flyovers where traffic is sparse, redirecting funds to road...
Amazon Pours $1B Into New Role That Embeds AI Engineers With Customers
The tech giant’s AWS Forward Deployed Engineering team aims to build agentic AI systems in days, not months, as the once...
Boycott Backlash Clouds Tyla’s Lagos Detty December Show, Highlighting Tour Promotion Risks
Social media calls for a boycott over xenophobia threaten South African star Tyla’s scheduled Lagos concert, exposing fi...
Kenya’s Inflation Rebounds to 6.5% as Transport Costs Remain Stubborn
Higher transport and food costs pushed Kenya’s annual inflation up in July, reversing a brief June slowdown and keeping ...
Tyla Cancels Lagos Concert Amid Xenophobia Boycott, Leaving Promoters With Heavy Costs
South African Grammy-winning singer Tyla has pulled her December headline show in Lagos after a boycott campaign over xe...
How FCCPC’s airtime lending crackdown wiped out nearly three-quarters of MTN Nigeria’s fintech revenue
MTN Nigeria’s soaring half-year profit masked a 72% collapse in fintech revenue after regulators forced it to suspend ai...
Nigeria Exempts Fully CNG and Electric Vehicles from Import Duty, VAT
The Nigerian government has waived import duties and VAT on fully CNG, LPG and electric vehicles to cut transport costs ...
Otedola lifts First HoldCo stake to 25.87%, making it Nigeria’s most valuable bank
Femi Otedola's investment vehicle has acquired nearly N300 billion in First HoldCo shares in under two weeks, taking his...
Hungary’s Paks Nuclear Outage Could Spark Power Restrictions Amid Heatwave
With all 2,000 MW of the Paks nuclear plant offline and a heatwave driving peak demand, grid operator Mavir has asked la...
Lidl Hungary CEO Calls for End to Retail Freeze, Open to Kaufland Entry
In an interview, the head of Lidl Hungary urged the government to scrap the ‘plázastop’ development ban that she says bl...
Equatorial Guinea’s Oil Curse: Can Malabo De-risk an Economy in Steep Decline?
A rare government resignation over missed targets exposes the depth of Equatorial Guinea’s hydrocarbon-driven crisis, as...
Elohor Aiboni Appointed Shell Nigeria’s First Female Country Chair, Succeeding Marno de Jong
Shell Nigeria celebrated the handover to Elohor Aiboni, the first woman to lead its operations, as outgoing country chai...
BOA bets on digital tech, e-wallets to boost farmers’ access to finance
Nigeria's Bank of Agriculture has deployed core banking, mobile channels and smart POS terminals to digitize lending and...
Africa Bangladesh Trade Summit to Open in Abuja This October
The ABBF-organised event in Abuja on 6–7 October 2026 aims to connect businesses from Bangladesh and Africa, with a focu...
Bangladesh’s Consular Corps Rallies to Advance Economic Diplomacy at Dhaka Reception
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shama Obaid Islam attended a reception hosted by the Consular Corps in Bangladesh, wh...
Obasanjo to Present Charly Boy’s Memoir ‘999’ at Lagos Tribute to Justice Oputa
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo will headline the public unveiling of ‘999: The Memoir of Charly Boy’ on 31 July 2026...
Epoch Biodesign Acquires Domo Chemicals Plant, Creating First Vertically Integrated Biorecycling Operation
London-based Epoch Biodesign has bought a former Domo Chemicals nylon 6.6 plant in Spain for just over €4 million, becom...
Microsoft sets record with near $450 billion single-day market cap gain
Shares surge 15% after cloud and AI forecasts smash expectations, pushing market cap past $3.35 trillion and easing fear...
Nestlé Nigeria to transfer water business into global joint venture with Platinum Equity
Nestlé Nigeria will move its water operations into Peranel, a 50:50 global venture between parent Nestlé S.A. and privat...
Honda takes women farmer empowerment drive to northern Nigeria
Honda Manufacturing Nigeria Limited donates farming equipment and provides training to 10 female farmers in Abuja, advan...
Ardara and Sumou Start $1 Billion Second Phase of Abha's Al Wadi Development
PIF-backed Ardara and Sumou Holding have launched the SAR4 billion second phase of the Al Wadi mixed-use project in Abha...
Why German C-Levels Should Build a LinkedIn Brand – and How It Boosts Business
A growing cohort of German CEOs is using LinkedIn to amplify trust, attract talent, and shape industry conversations. Bu...
Uber Turns Gig Platform into Data Annotation Powerhouse After Scale AI’s Meta Deal
With Scale AI selling a 49% stake to Meta and key customers pulling back, Uber is rapidly scaling its “Uber AI Solutions...
Microsoft Books $450 Billion Single-Day Gain as Azure AI Bets Pay Off
Microsoft added nearly $450 billion in market value in one session — the largest single-day jump in stock market history...
Polish Inflation Rebounds as Fuel Prices Surge, Clouding Prospects for Interest Rate Cuts
A 15.8% year-on-year leap in fuel costs pushed Poland’s CPI back towards 3%, likely keeping the central bank on hold aft...