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Japan’s Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama’s warnings and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s backing of the Bank of Japan to run policy “successfully” only briefly helped the yen as it continued to hover close to its weakest levels since last month’s intervention.
Former Czech coach Petr Vlachovsky receives a lifetime ban from UEFA after being found guilty of secretly filming female players in changing rooms. Read More: https://punchng.com/ex-czech-coach-gets-lifetime-ban-for-secretly-filming-female-players/
Those who speak glibly about deficits, debt and fiscal expansion often reveal not economic sophistication, but economic illiteracy disguised as read more Deficits, debt and economic literacy: A response to Nigeria’s fiscal critics
Google is launching a big new feature for Gmail called Gmail Live, a new AI-powered voice mode that's basically the Gemini Live experience but built specifically for your inbox. To use Gmail Live, tap an icon that will appear in your search bar and just start talking. In a press briefing, a Google employee showed a live demo of the feature where she asked questions about things like events at her kid's school and an upcoming trip to Detroit. Gmail pulled up relevant details in the Gmail Live interface, like the date and location of a show-and-tell event at the school, all sourced from the employee's inbox. It was an intriguing demo, and yo … Read the full story at The Verge.
Desmond Elliot, a lawmaker in the Lagos State House of Assembly, has broken his silence after Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, said he almost lost his job because of the role the lawmaker played during the Assembly leadership crisis involving Mudashiru Obasa, news.ng reports. The post Obasa’s Impeachment Saga: Desmond Elliot Clears His Name appeared first on News.ng.
The LSIP commits Lagos to industrial leadership through 2030. Its new task force will turn the plan into output. On read more Lagos’s Industrial Policy: A bold plan and the machinery to deliver it
Oden Ewa has won the All Progressives Congress primary election for the Cross River Central Senatorial District, becoming the party’s candidate. Read More: https://punchng.com/ex-commmissioner-ewa-emerges-apc-criver-senatorial-candidate/
Any price caps would be voluntary apply to key groceries such as eggs, bread, and milk, the BBC understands.
The competition is a nationwide engineering, innovation and entrepreneurship competition launched in 2025 by a non-profit Organisation, Enactus Nigeria, in partnership with the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and three others The post UNIPORT, UNIBEN emerge regional winners of NCDMB-sponsored Engineering Olympiad appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.
Some people say they are "stranded" in hospital, but the NHS denies decisions around their care are driven by costs.
Euronext NV’s results beat expectations as market volatility boosted trading volumes and the newly acquired Athens stock exchange contributed to revenue.
India’s Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. has largely shifted to making spot crude purchases as the Iran war upends annual arrangements for Middle Eastern barrels, highlighting challenges for refiners to secure supplies.
