Thursday, February 19, 2026
Unilever involved in bidding war for Reckitt Benckiser’s £2bn-valued food business
Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Unilever is involved in a £2bn bidding war to buy Reckitt Benckiser’s food business. The London and Amsterdam-listed firm is...
Read moreDetailsU.S.-China trade talks sputtering at 100-day deadline
Bilateral talks aimed at reducing the U.S. trade deficit with China have yielded some initial deals, but U.S. firms say...
Read moreDetailsCorruption can hurt growth and ruin people’s economic chances, warns IMF
*Estimates global cost of bribery at $2trn annually.... A research by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) shows that in countries...
Read moreDetailsUS go after $144m bribe related assets linked to Diezani, former OPECÂ president
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has made a court filing seeking to retrieve assets worth about $144 million said...
Read moreDetailsNigeria’s telecommunications regulator to earn 60% commission on spectrum swap deals
Nigeria’s telecoms regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), is to earn a 60 percent commission on all spectrum swap deals...
Read moreDetailsNigerian stocks closed trading on positive note, records 2.47% gain week-on-week
Nigerian stocks closed trading on a positive note Friday as the bourse’s all-share index rose marginally by 0.04 percent to...
Read moreDetailsShell declares force majeure on Nigerian Bonny Light crude lifting on shutdown of pipeline by operator
Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, has declared a force majeure on the export...
Read moreDetailsDigital finance seen driving Nigeria’s economic growth by 12% in a decade, says McKinsey
The Nigerian economy has potential of growing by as much as 12 percent in less than a decade if the...
Read moreDetailsNigeria’s new tax initiative needs growth in collection to push tax-to-GDP ratio from 6% to 15%
Nigeria must grow its tax collection mechanism faster than GDP if its hope to see an increase in tax-to-Gross Domestic...
Read moreDetailsNigeria ranks 21 in world’s most powerful economies in 2030
PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the world's largest professional-services firms, just released its predictions for the most powerful economies in the world...
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