[Premium Times] Under the new tax laws, airlines become fully VAT-neutral.

[Premium Times] The deal was valued at $750 million, a source close to Mr Otedola, with knowledge of the transaction told PREMIUM TIMES.

[Vanguard] The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has confirmed that excessive speed and wrongful overtaking were the main causes of the road traffic crash involving world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State.

[Vanguard] The family of former World heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Joshua has expressed shock after the British-Nigerian boxer was involved in a fatal car crash along the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Makun area of Ogun State on Monday.

[Vanguard] For decades, cross-border payments have been defined by friction. Transfers move through correspondent banks and intermediaries, settle on batch schedules, and incur fees that are often opaque until the transaction is cleared. It works, but it is slow, expensive, and structurally constrained by banking cut-off times and legacy rails.

[Capital FM] A pilot of a private jet reported seeing a "strange, small object" floating beside his aircraft thousands of feet above Rhode Island.

[Namibian] Global cocoa prices have come down after two years of rising costs.

[Leadership] Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has stated that an administrative directive by the National Assembly leadership cannot validate the defect or justify a re-gazetting of the Tax Law without re-passage and a fresh presidential assent.

[Ghanaian Times] The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) says it has resolved the Technical Challenge with the MMS-Compliant Meters.

[Ghanaian Times] Eight business owners have been summoned by the La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA) in the Greater Accra Region for refusing to participate in the climax of the Special one-week National Sanitation Day exercise for the Christmas celebrations.

[Daily Maverick] Silver and its ascent is a structural repricing driven by the thermal wall of AI data centres. But as global markets panic, South Africa's mining sector faces its own reality check of infrastructure bottlenecks and missed renewable targets.

[Independent (Kampala)] Moscow, Russia -- Uganda is interested in cooperation with Russia in the oil and gas sector, head of the International Legal and Social Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uganda John Leonard Mugerwa told TASS.

[Maka] Luanda -- Angola's continued placement under enhanced monitoring by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has once again exposed deep structural weaknesses in the country's banking system.

[This Day] Some career moves end before they begin. In Nigeria's energy sector recently, restraint became the headline.

[This Day] 2025 unfolded as a year of uneasy recalibration for Nigeria's economy, where bold reforms met stubborn realities and progress came in fragile steps. Between tightening policies and everyday survival, the nation's business landscape was reshaped by strain, adaptation, and cautious hope, writes Festus Akanbi

[New Times] In rural parts of Rwanda, beekeepers carefully position hives along forest edges, hillsides and farms, attentive to flowering cycles and weather patterns that determine the quality of honey produced.

[Vanguard] Nigerians were plunged into darkness on Monday afternoon following another collapse of the national electricity grid, with power supply across most parts of the country dropping to near zero.

[SAnews.gov.za] In the heart of the Overberg District, in Bredasdorp in the Western Cape, Pieters Flowers & Events has grown from humble beginnings into a thriving enterprise that brings South Africa's iconic proteas and fynbos to markets both locally and internationally.

[Premium Times] This is not a buy, sell or hold recommendation but a stock investment guide. You may need to involve your financial advisor before taking investment decisions.

[Premium Times] Nigeria could enter a stronger and more sustainable growth phase in 2026 if economic reforms were sustained and security challenges addressed, the Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) said in its 2025 economic review on Sunday.

[Daba Finance] Croptimus, an Egypt-based agritech startup, has raised an undisclosed investment from Venture X, as funding continues to flow into food and agriculture technology across the Middle East and Africa.

[Daba Finance] International Finance Corporation is considering an equity investment of up to $13 million in Breadfast, as the Egyptian online grocery and quick-commerce company seeks to expand beyond major cities and upgrade its technology.

[Daba Finance] Nawah Scientific, an Egypt-based deeptech company, has raised $23 million in a Series A round made up of equity and debt, as it marks ten years since it was founded.

[Daba Finance] Egypt-based iVoiceUp has closed an investment round led by A15 to support its expansion across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

[Daba Finance] Algeria-based traveltech startup VOLZ has raised about $5 million in a Series A funding round led by a consortium of private investors under Tell Group, with participation from Groupe GIBA.

[SAnews.gov.za] Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Dean Macpherson, has requested an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the collapse of a building in Doornkop, Johannesburg.

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Manufacturers have reaffirmed their commitment to advancing the country's green economy in alignment with government initiatives.

[Leadership] Nigeria's domestic airfares are the cheapest in the world, Air Peace Airlines chairman, Allen Onyema, has asserted.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Senate has invited the public to submit written memoranda on the South Lokichar Field Development Plan (FDP) and the associated Production Sharing Contracts for Blocks T6 and T7 in Turkana County, as the government moves closer to unlocking commercial oil production in the northwest region.

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