Kaduna, Edo, Katsina, Sokoto and Lagos emerged as the five Nigerian states with the sharpest rise in public debt over the past decade, according to a review of BudgIT’s latest ‘State of States’ report. An analysis by Pinnacle Daily shows that the debt profiles of these states expanded rapidly between 2015 and 2024, reflecting widening …
Many roads across Nigeria, including federal highways, remain in poor condition despite trillions of naira allocated each year for road projects. These roads are meant to link regions, support trade, and drive economic activity, but years of neglect have made travel difficult, unsafe, and costly. In a post shared on his X handle on December …
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, has reported stronger-than-expected revenue for the fourth quarter, driven by surging demand for artificial intelligence-related chips. The company said revenue for the October–December period rose 20.45 per cent year-on-year to T$1.046 trillion (about $33.04 billion), up from T$868.46 billion recorded in the same period last …
No fewer than eight African countries are currently studying Nigeria’s data protection ecosystem. The move follows Nigeria’s growing influence in data privacy regulation across the continent. The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has received delegations from several African nations. The visits focus on regulatory experience, institutional frameworks, and practical lessons for running effective data protection …
In December 2025, the United States government announced new visa restrictions affecting Nigerian nationals, introducing partial travel limits and heightened scrutiny for several visa categories. The move is part of a broader Trump administration immigration policy shift that expands travel restrictions to multiple countries, including Nigeria, amid cited security and compliance concerns. While U.S. officials …
For 15 years, Americans have been forced to chase crypto dreams offshore on exchanges with no real protections, where billions vanished in collapses like FTX. That era just ended. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced on Thursday, December 4, 2025, that spot cryptocurrency trading is now approved on federally regulated exchanges for the …
Coinbase's open payment protocol, ×402, has passed 60 million in transactions, and Solana payment flow hits $380K, surging 750% in a week. Something BIG is happening. The x402 protocol just quietly crossed 60 million transactions. That’s the Coinbase-backed payment layer that resurrected the long-dead HTTP 402 status code, so AI agents can pay each other …
CoinMarketCap’s head of research on market cycles, Alice Liu, has predicted that a full-blown crypto bull run will kick off in Q1 2026, with February and March delivering the fireworks. “We are going to see a market comeback in Q1 of 2026,” Liu said, adding, “February and March will be a bull market again, based …
If you’ve ever joked, “Wen Lambo?” while staring at your Bitcoin gains, Lamborghini just made it real without the six-figure price tag. The Italian supercar icon teamed up with hardware wallet leader "Ledger" to launch a custom-branded version of the Stak device, complete with an E Ink touchscreen, support for over 15,000 coins, and a …
Bitcoin is currently testing a price level that could make or break the entire bull market, $88,000, the 100-week simple moving average that once stood as unbreakable resistance in 2022 before flipping to support and igniting the 2023 rally from $16,000 to $126,000. After a sharp 26% drop from $109,000 driven by liquidity fears and …
