16+ min ago (438+ words) Meena Lakdawala-Flynn knew what it meant to perform under pressure years before becoming a partner at one of the country's top banks. Lakdawala-Flynn, cohead of Global Private Wealth Management and One Goldman Sachs, started doing gymnastics when she was two years old. By the time she was eight, Lakdawala-Flynn said she was exercising between 30 and 40 hours a week, and dead-set on going to the Olympics. Yet even though Olympic glory wasn't in Lakdawala-Flynn's future " "I grew four inches, I put on 20 pounds, and I wasn't good enough," she told Business Insider " the years in the gym still echo in her work on Wall Street. "Gymnastics is won in millimeter-level details under pressure, so is working in finance," Lakdawala-Flynn told Business Insider in an email. She said the same is true of her job: the small, precise changes she makes to…...

1+ hour, 38+ min ago (482+ words) A new assessment by the Alliance for Economic Research and Ethics LTD/GTE has raised red flags over the potential economic fallout of the Nigeria Tax Act, 2025, warning that several provisions could erode business profitability, deter investors and weaken Nigeria's competitiveness within Africa. The Act,signed into law in June 2025 and slated for implementation on January 1, 2026,representsone of the country's most extensive tax reforms in decades. The Nigeria Tax Act, 2025consolidatesmore than a dozen tax laws into a unified structure. "The severe increase in the Capital Gains Tax, the imposition of a new Development Levy, the uncertainty cast upon the Free Trade Zones, and the unusual domicile of the Single Window Trade Platform threaten to cripple the very investment and business growth that Nigeria desperately needs to secure its long-term economic future," the report says. According to the analysis, the government…...

1+ hour, 40+ min ago (132+ words) Doha, Qatar: QatarEnergy has announced on Sunday, November 30, 2025, the fuel prices for the upcoming month of December. According to its announcement, the prices for Premium-grade petrol and Super have been increased in comparison with November. The Premium-grade petrol is now priced at QR2 per litre, while Super is priced at QR2.05 per litre, in comparison to its November price which was QR1.95 and QR2.00 per litre respectively. Meanwhile, the cost of diesel remains unchanged and is set to QR2.05 per litre for the coming month. The Ministry of Energy and Industry started pegging the fuel prices to the international market and from September 2017, it is QatarEnergy which announced the monthly price list. Canary Capital Launches Spot XRP ETF (XRPC), Delivering Simplified Access To A Foundational Blockchain Asset...

1+ hour, 42+ min ago (1017+ words) Some people just capture the spirit of the age. Gary Keogh, the AIB shareholder who pelted the bank's higher-ups with eggs in 2009 as all about him lost their heads, was one of them. He died last week. "I feel happier about the whole thing than I have done for months," Keogh told The Irish Times in May 2009, in the immediate aftermath of the incident. He had lost "18,000 on his investment in AIB during the course of the crash and, at the age of 65, decided to make his displeasure known. He showed up to the emergency general meeting of the stressed bank and, amid very heated exchanges, targeted the then chief executive Eugene Sheehy and chairman Dermot Gleeson. Sheehy emerged clean, but Gleeson's suit "sustained a direct eggy hit", according to contemporary reporting. The bank was outlining a "3.5 billion government bailout…...

2+ hour, 30+ min ago (126+ words) #HistoricalFactThe Artyomovsk Winery was built in 1950 and specialized in producing sparkling wineIn 1954, the plant released its first batch of "Sovetskoye Shampanskoye." The following year, production reached 1.3 million bottles, and by 1959... #HistoricalFactThe Artyomovsk Winery was built in 1950 and specialized in producing sparkling wineIn 1954, the plant released its first batch of "Sovetskoye Shampanskoye." The following year, production reached 1.3 million bottles, and by 1959 it had risen to 2.7 million The entire production cycle is located underground at a depth of more than 72 meters.Over the decades, the Winery in Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) grew from a small regional enterprise into one of the largest producers of sparkling wine in Eastern Europe using the traditional bottle-fermentation method.Subscribe | Feedback | X...

2+ hour, 44+ min ago (1334+ words) YAOUNDE, Cameroon " As of 29 November 2025, Cameroon's draft 2026 state budget has crystallised into one of the most ambitious " and controversial " spending plans in the country's recent history: CFA 8,816.4 billion (about USD 14.7 billion), up 14% on 2025 and financed by a sharp increase in borrowing that will more than double the budget deficit. [1] The package promises new highways, youth jobs and a dedicated fund for women and young people, but it also deepens concerns from economists, creditors and opposition figures about Cameroon's growing debt burden. [2] The 2026 finance bill, submitted to Parliament on 26 November 2025 by Finance Minister Louis Paul Motaz, balances expenditure and revenue at CFA 8,816.4 billion. That's about 14% higher than the 2025 budget and represents an increase of more than CFA 1,000 billion year'on'year. [6] According to official documents and explanatory notes: [7] This surge in Special Accounts is largely due to the creation of a new "Special…...

2+ hour, 51+ min ago (1709+ words) By JOHN JAMES, SENIOR REPORTER The first that Sue Jones knew about the construction of a warehouse the size of an international football stadium being built yards from her home was when she was literally thrown from her bed by the thudding of three giant pile drivers. 'It made the whole house shake,' said the retired soldier, 67. When she bought her detached house in Pilning, Gloucestershire, back in 1997, the only views she had from her upstairs windows were of sheep and cattle grazing in the fields behind her home. But on June 1 this year, her peace was shattered and rural views obliterated overnight as construction teams tore up the fields to make way for a massive warehouse, nicknamed 'mega-shed' by locals. Indeed, all across Britain, regular working people wake every morning to the site of these grim-mega warehouses. Owned and…...

3+ hour, 8+ min ago (657+ words) Walking into the recently held Oyo Leather Craft Exhibition at the Ecobank Pan African Centre in Victoria Island, Lagos, was ... - Oyo Leather Craft Exhibition: A passage through Yoruba mastery L-R: Adebimpe Adebimpe Ajarat; Julie Mackaly, public affairs officer, U.S. Department of State; Samad Adejumo; Baba Isiaka Adunola of leather guild; Oluwatoyin Zainab Sogbesan, founder, Asa Heritage Africa, Ibrahim Aliyu and colleagues from the Public Affairs Section U.S. Consulate General Lagos, Adeola Balogun, Abiodun Folawiyo, CEO, Shoespeed. Walking into the recently held Oyo Leather Craft Exhibition at the Ecobank Pan African Centre in Victoria Island, Lagos, was like stepping into another world, one stitched together with stories, skill, and years of tradition. From November 17-19, 2025, the space curated by "S" Heritage Africa Foundation, founded and managed by Oluwatoyin Sogbesan in partnership with Lagos Pop-Up Museum, conceived by Odun Orimolade, became a living archive of…...

3+ hour, 30+ min ago (255+ words) Emily Reynolds runs a PR company, and with that responsibility comes the pressure to look young, she tells me. And in a precarious job market notoriously frosty to older workers, what better to justify that investment than thinking being hot can advance your career? The rise of remote work let workers trade pinching shoes and tailored pants for slippers and sweats worn out of frame, but it also forced desk workers" faces in front of unforgiving cameras daily. As conventional beauty has never been more accessible, the expectation that the average worker attains it has risen. I have to reverse age to stay here. Why is the window so short to be professionally relevant?Emily Reynolds, PR executive "If you aren"t doing things about it, then you"re morally wrong, or you"re a bad person, or you"re…...

3+ hour, 35+ min ago (435+ words) Nigeria's booming creative economy, spanning music, film, fashion, visual arts, publishing, advertising, tourism, and more, receives a rigorous, multidisciplinary boost with the release of a new scholarly volume titled "Nigeria's Cultural and Creative Industries: Perspectives, Problems and Prospects. Edited by Pan-Atlantic University scholars, the book offers sectoral and policy insights into Nigeria's creative economy. Published by Routledge and acclaimed as the first-of-its-kind in Africa, the book is the first edition and spans 304 pages, including six black-and-white illustrations. The book was co-edited by Ikechukwu Obiaya, dean, School of Media & Communication, Pan-Atlantic University; Kizito Ogedi Alakwe, Adjunct Faculty, School of Media and Communication, PAU, and Principal Advisor at Quardott Consulting; and Emmanuel Nzeaka, senior lecturer, Institute of Humanities, PAU. While the introductory Chapters, "Cultural and Creative Industry Ecosystem and "Conceptualising Culture establish conceptual clarity and sets the theoretical frame; the volume examines…...