cost of living crisis

Reading Time: < 1 minute Members of the House of Representatives have received 100% of their July salaries despite the pledge they made to each donate half…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Mortgage rates continue to fall this week, as HSBC and Barclays become the latest lenders to cut the cost of home loans. …

Reading Time: < 1 minute At least 13 protesters were killed during mass protests in Nigeria against the country’s economic crisis that turned violent in several states,…

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Bank of England has lowered interest rates to 5% from 5.25%, marking the first cut in more than four years.  Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minute A group of women reportedly hired by President Bola Tinubu’s government for a counter-protest against the planned #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest have complained that…

Reading Time: < 1 minute In the early hours of today, High Court Justice Abena Afia Serwaa approved a request by Ghana’s police to ban demonstrators from…

Reading Time: < 1 minute In recent times, Nigeria, Africa’s largest democracy, has been under intense pressure.  Read More  

Reading Time: < 1 minute Japan’s central bank has hiked interest rates for only the second time in almost 17 years as the country grapples with a weakening…

Reading Time: < 1 minute “We are protesting because we are hungry,” Nigerian activist Banwo Olagokun tells the BBC.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minute Labour had not set out plans to cut winter fuel payments when they were in opposition, a senior Treasury official has said.  Read More