VFD Group Plc reported a 96% year-on-year increase in profit after tax, reaching N13.00bn for the nine months ended September 30, 2026. T he group’s unaudited financial results, approved by its Board, showed a substantial rise from N6.63bn recorded in the corresponding period of 2025. Group Managing Director Nonso Okpala noted the near-doubling of profit…
Aradel Holdings Plc reported a significant increase in revenue and pre-tax profit for the nine months ended September 30, 2026. The company’s unaudited financial statements, released on October 30, 2026, showed strong performance driven by its crude oil and gas operations. Following these results, Aradel‘s board declared an interim dividend of N7.00 per share. The…
Access Holdings Plc reported its unaudited results for the nine months ended September 30, 2026, showing resilient profit growth. The Group’s Profit Before Tax increased by 8.3% to ₦667.4 billion. Profit After Tax also rose by 5.9% to ₦474.2 billion during the period. This performance was driven by growth in core income and a significant…
Global impunity for journalist killings has risen for the first time in more than a decade, while the growing use of drones is an emerging threat for reporters in conflict zones, according to the latest report from UN cultural organization UNESCO. “Journalists are increasingly paying with their lives for reporting from the frontlines of war…
The Apple iPhone Duo smartphone at Apple’s Fifth Avenue store during the first day of in-store sales in New York, US, on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple’s first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, hit store shelves on Friday to considerable lines and long wait times for pre-orders. But…
Cholera deaths increased by 30% in 2025, despite fewer cases being reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2025, 47 countries reported 451 499 cholera cases and 7870 deaths to WHO. This is the highest number of annual cholera deaths reported to WHO since 1999. These figures reflect surveillance data reported to WHO and…
In rare access to Yemen’s conflict zone, the BBC has travelled with government forces from Taiz through checkpoints to the line where the Houthi control ends and no man’s land begins. Saudi-backed pro-government forces are battling to push back Houthi fighters, who swept down the coast of the Red Sea earlier this month, taking control…
Yemen’s special envoy to the United Nations called on support from the international community after the Iran-backed Houthi militant group seized control of the Red Sea port city of Mokha. “This renewed war should alarm us all,” Hans Grundberg, the U.N. special envoy for Yemen, warned at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has formally reported the xenophobic and Afrophobic attacks against Africans and other nationals in South Africa to the African Union, warning that the incidents undermine the continent’s solidarity, unity and peaceful coexistence. The President also requested immediate action from African leaders, including the placement of the issue on the agenda for…
Flight tracking data confirms an American military aircraft travelled to Russia from the US via Latvia on Tuesday.
