Author: Prima News

A noticeable transformation is unfolding across Africa’s financial landscape. What once appeared as fragmented participation in forex, equities, and cryptocurrency is consolidating into a more coordinated and confident trading environment. As 2026 approaches, the narrative is no longer about experimentation. It is about acceleration backed by infrastructure, education, and capital mobility. Traders entering this evolving ecosystem are encountering conditions that differ significantly from just a few years ago. Mobile platforms have reduced barriers. Payment networks have shortened settlement cycles. Digital literacy has improved. The awakening is subtle but unmistakable. Market Access Is Becoming Frictionless The mechanics of joining financial markets in…

By Folarin Kehinde Tension flared on Friday in Abuja as journalists jostled for accreditation ahead of the convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) holding in the nation’s capital. The incident, which occurred at the Kano Hall of the Transcorp Hilton Abuja, saw over 100 journalists—both accredited and non-accredited—storm the venue in a bid to secure accreditation tags for coverage of the exercise. Trouble began earlier in the day when the coordinator in charge of the tags announced that only a limited number of tags were available. According to the coordinator, most of the tags designated for APC correspondents had…

Germany’s Social Democrats meet on Friday to agree on new policy plans that their struggling leadership sees as the last chance for ​a party fast losing its status as one of the country’s political pillars. The crunch session comes in the wake of two ‌disastrous state election results for Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition partners this month. The SPD, Germany’s oldest political party, got just 5.5% of the vote in Baden-Wuerttemberg and lost its 35-year-long hold on power in neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate. The far-right Alternative for Germany, now firmly established as the second-strongest political movement nationwide, has increasingly claimed the SPD’s traditional place as the…

The Tanimu Turaki-led National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is currently in a closed-door meeting with the Board of Trustees, BoT, led by Adolphus Wabara, in Abuja. DAILY POST reports that the meeting is the third this week. When a similar meeting held on Wednesday, the Turaki-led group said it was open to reconciliation with the camp led by Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Minister, Nyesom Wike. Turaki also confirmed that talks were showing positive signs of getting to a truce The Abdulrahman Mohamed-led caretaker committee of the PDP, which is backed by Wike, had insisted that…

German prosecutors have charged one of the last surviving alleged militants of the Red Army Faction with attempted murder and a string of violent attacks carried out more than three decades ​ago, the federal prosecutor’s office said on Friday. In charges filed on March 23 at ‌a court in Frankfurt, prosecutors accuse 66-year-old Daniela Klette of attempted murder in two cases, attempted and completed bomb attacks, kidnapping for ransom and aggravated robbery. Klette was arrested in Berlin in February 2024 after more than three decades on ​the run. German authorities were able to make the arrest after a Canadian investigative…

The Akwa Ibom State Government has dismissed as false, misleading, and baseless reports in social media platforms suggesting that Super Eagles players contributed funds for the renovation of the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium and are dissatisfied with alleged delays in renovation works. Fielding questions from newsmen, the State Commissioner for Information, Hon. Aniekan Umanah, alongside his Sports counterpart, Elder Paul Bassey, clarified that the stadium is 100 percent maintained by the Akwa Ibom State Government, and at no time did any Super Eagles player, or any individual, donate money for its upgrade or upkeep. They emphasized that the facility remains…

Britain has told parents to curb young children’s screen time, advising no screens for under-2s and up to an hour a day ​for 2- to 5-year-olds because prolonged solo use can disrupt sleep and ‌displace play and exercise. Governments worldwide have been moving to tighten rules around children’s online use, with countries including France, Denmark and the Netherlands pushing for new age-verification and safety requirements citing concerns about ​mental-health risks, cyberbullying and exposure to harmful content. Indonesia has also imposed tougher restrictions, ​with under-16s set to be barred from using Roblox (RBLX.N), opens new tab from Saturday after ⁠the government designated the platform high-risk. Britain’s advice on the…

U.S. President Donald ​Trump said he would again extend a deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face the destruction of its energy plants, after Tehran earlier rejected a 15-point ‌U.S. proposal to end the fighting. The war has spread across the Middle East, killing thousands of people and hitting the global economy with soaring energy and fertiliser prices that have fuelled inflation fears. The United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran on February 28 during talks with Tehran about its nuclear programme that had not yet yielded a deal. On Thursday, Trump threatened during a cabinet meeting at the White House…

Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah was sworn in as ​prime minister of Nepal on Friday, tasked with restoring political stability and creating jobs in the poor Himalayan nation long ‌troubled by fragile governments and weak growth prospects. Shah, who wore skin-tight trousers, a matching jacket, his signature black Nepali cloth cap and sunglasses at the ceremony, is Nepal’s youngest prime minister in decades and the first Madhesi – people of the southern plains bordering India – to lead the Himalayan nation that is wedged between Asian giants India ​and China. A former mayor of the capital, Kathmandu, Shah, 35, became prime minister after his…