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CHEERING news has emerged that the Bola Tinubu administration’s tax reforms have yielded higher value-added tax gains for states. Total VAT earnings rose to N1.08 trillion in January, The PUNCH ...
Understand the income approach to GDP, where total expenditures equal the income from goods and services in an economy.
Nigeria's VAT earnings reached a record N1.08tn in January under a new VAT sharing formula, altering revenue splits for ...
Gross value added (GVA) for agriculture and allied activities is projected to grow at a modest 2.4% in real terms in FY26, a decline from the 4.2% reported in FY25, according to the new series of ...
CEO Mike Milotich announced, “Total processing volume, or TPV, was $109 billion in the fourth quarter, crossing the $100 billion threshold in a quarter for the first time in Marqeta's history,” noting ...
Baupost Group's Seth Klarman picked up Amazon in the fourth quarter, a bet that has yet to work out for the value investor this year as tech stocks take a hammering. The Boston-based hedge fund ...
Over the past eight years under the leadership of Honourable Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Uttar Pradesh has undergone a remarkable economic transformation, emerging as one of India’s ...
ABU DHABI, 2nd February, 2026 (WAM) -- Aldar has announced the addition of several strategic land plots across Abu Dhabi, with a combined gross development value of around AED23 billion, further ...
Despite a patchwork of tariffs affecting cars, steel and non-USMCA-compliant goods, most Mexican exports to the U.S. remain duty-free. (Cuartoscuro) By this time around, you should be asking ...
The dollar probably won't buy as much in the near future as it does now. Bitcoin and Zcash are both scarce assets with real value. Ethereum is valuable for its various uses, and its supply situation ...
XRPL tokenized assets grew from $24.7M to $567.9M in 2025 but still trails Ethereum’s tens of billions. Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin reached $1.3B market cap and became the third-largest U.S.-regulated ...