Goddy Ikeh
As Sub-Saharan Africa faces mounting food insecurity, the Republic of Congo and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) have joined forces to harness the potential of e-commerce to drive agricultural development and improve access to food.
Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), has announced that the headline inflation rate for the month of June eased further to 22.22 per cent.
In April, two of Britain’s biggest retailers got hit by a massive cyberattack by the notorious Scattered Spider group, leading to substantial financial losses, operational disruptions and compromised customer data. M&S suffered losses of £300 million (roughly R7.3 billion) due to the attack, with supply chains affected for weeks. On top of the direct losses, over £1 billion was stripped from the organisation’s market value.
“Africa’s call for reparative justice is no longer a whisper—it is a unified demand grounded in historical truth, moral clarity and our unwavering commitment to dignity. As we implement the 2025 Theme of the Year on Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through reparations, we reaffirm our shared resolve to correct historical wrongs and injustices through restitution, healing and holistic systemic transformation.”
Six Cameroonian children abducted by kidnappers were rescued in Chad during a military operation conducted by Chadian defense and security forces.
Ghana’s Minister for Finance, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, has inaugurated a seven-member Board for the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC).
The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to take urgent measures to implement and give full effect to the April 9, 2025 judgment of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, which declared aspects of Kano State’s blasphemy laws a violation of Nigeria’s obligations under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
Nigeria’s average daily crude production rose above the quota allocated to it by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in June 2025.
Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Olawale Edun, has defended the economic reforms initiated by President Bola Tinubu, describing them as difficult but necessary steps toward macroeconomic stability and national recovery.
Global goods trade picked up pace in the first quarter of 2025 as importers rushed to stockpile goods ahead of expected tariff increases, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) said in its latest report.