Governor Amosun sets December date to complete construction of bridges

Ogun State records 100% increase in IGR, says Governor Amosun.

UN slams DR Congo's failure to prevent large-scale ethnic Banunu massacre in December

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a rare friend of both Donald Trump and Iran’s leaders, urged Tehran on Wednesday to avoid conflict at all costs and pledged to do his utmost to ease tensions that have threatened to plunge the Middle East into renewed chaos.

With the start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics a little over a year away, the National Stadium, set to be the centrepiece of the Games, is 90% completed and will open its doors for the first time in December.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has charged 12 banks over N400bn for failing to meet the loan-to-deposit-ratio (LDR) target set by Apex Bank. CBN had set September 30th as deadline for banks in the Country to meet the 60 per cent loan-to-deposit-ratio target. To discuss this story, Omotola Abimbola, Macro and Fixed Income Analyst at Chapel Hill Denham joins CNBC Africa for more.

In a sudden reversal, UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has backed an early general election in December. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will once more ask British lawmakers to approve an early election later on Tuesday.

December election: Could span poll break up deadlock over Brexit?

Nigeria’s headline inflation reached 11.98 per cent year-on-year in December 2019. Olamide Adeboboye, Research Analyst at ARM Securities joins CNBC Africa to discuss the trends behind the figures and more.

Financial Derivatives is forecasting a 0.25 per cent increase in Nigeria’s December 2019 headline inflation to 12.10 per cent. Damilola Akinbami, Head of Research at Financial Derivatives joins CNBC Africa to discuss the trends behind this forecast.

Hawkers have taken over major pedestrian bridges in Abuja as venues for sale of their commodities.

Nigerian Army has extended its military operation Sahel Sanity to December this year. The Operation was established in June this year to tackle activities of kidnapping, cattle rustling, armed banditry and other crimes in the northwest zone of the country.

Tesla's shares jumped by over 10% following the news that the electric car company will be added to the US leading S&P 500 stock index. The inclusion follows a snub in September.