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By Mather Godwin Dangote Cement Plc has announced a 50 per cent increase in dividend payout to shareholders, raising the dividend from N30 per share to N45 per share, which translates to a total payout of approximately N753.8 billion, reaffirming the company’s position as one of the most rewarding investments on the Nigerian Exchange (NGX).  The increase follows the company’s outstanding 2025 financial performance and underscores its unwavering commitment to shareholder value creation. The dividend payout, which was approved by the shareholders at the Company’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), represents the highest dividend payout in the history of Dangote Cement and…

The simulations that captured the localized effects of individual large impacts also produced wholesale recycling of crust back into the mantle, with material dripping down to depths of at least 600 kilometers. Johnson thinks this recycling explains why so little Hadean crust survived to the present. It also explains, he argues, the near-total absence of shock-deformed Hadean zircons in the geological record. The researchers suggest that with so much melt present at shallow depths, it would have absorbed and scattered shock waves before they left lasting deformation in surviving crystals. A turning point The impact flux didn’t stay high forever;…

Four wins to go. How can your team reach the final and win the World Cup 2026? Click here to find out.Who: Portugal vs SpainWhat: FIFA World Cup 2026 – Round of 16Where: Dallas Stadium, Arlington, Texas, the United StatesWhen: Monday, July 6, at 2pm (19:00 GMT)How to follow: We will have all the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from 16:00 GMT before our live text commentary stream.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listA clash of generations awaits on Monday as ageing football star Cristiano Ronaldo goes up against teen prodigy Lamine Yamal in the World Cup round of 16 match between Portugal and…

AI think, therefore AI amAlbum / Alamy Some of the biggest challenges in artificial intelligence are being worked on not by computer scientists head down in code but by philosophers lured from academia into jobs at AI firms. The philosophers are tasked with making the next generation of models more capable and reliable, but they also shed light on the mystery of consciousness and whether intelligence can be replicated in software alone. Jonathan Birch at the London School of Economics and Political Science says AI companies are the big employers of philosophy PhDs right now, with offers of interesting work,…

Cliftonville captain Kelsie Burrows said that their emphatic Women’s League Cup win against Glentoran “is a real good start” in their quest to win a domestic treble.The Reds won the trophy for a fourth year in a row courtesy of a 4-0 victory over the Glens at Seaview.Caitlin McGuinness scored twice with sister Kirsty and substitute Danielle Maxwell also finding the net as Brendan Lynch’s side sent out a signal of intent against the Women’s Premiership champions.”Everyone is delighted. We wanted to come out here and press Glentoran as much as we could and we knew where their weaknesses were…

EXCLUSIVE: The Assassin‘s upcoming second season is already making a killing, with a host of international buyers now attached. Season 2 of the Prime Video series, which counts Australia’s Stan and Germany’s ZDF as co-producers, has been acquired by several networks and streamers who ran Season 1. We revealed news of the recommission back in February after reporting it was in development in November last year. They are namely Canada’s Bell Media, which will bring the new series to Crave and CTV Drama Channel; NBCUniversal LatAm, which has taken pan-territory rights for Universal+; NPO (the Netherlands); SVT (Sweden); TV2 (Norway);…

Last week, Nigerian stocks fell by 1.2 per cent, marking its third week of broad retreat in the wake of the introduction of a T+1 settlement cycle in June. The Banking Index was worst hit, receding by 10.5 per cent, followed by the Insurance Index. FTSE Russell, a global provider of stock market indexes, during the week placed its recent upgrade of Nigeria from unclassified to a frontier market on hold on fears that the country’s new rule, compelling international investors to prefund their accounts before transactions, may be deterring. Failure by stock market authorities to respond swiftly to address…

Ten persons have lost their lives while six others sustained varying degrees of injures in a fatal road traffic crash that occurred on Sunday night. The fatal accident which occured at about 8:05pm at Saapade Bridge along the Ibadan–Lagos Expressway, involved a white Sinotruk (CNHTC) truck and a white Toyota Hiace bus with registration number EKY 290 YM. The spokesman for the Ogun FRSC Sector Command, Afolabi Odunsi, confirmed this in a statement issued on Sunday,. Odunsi disclosed that 18 people were involved in the crash, comprising 15 adult males, two adult females and one male child. According to the…

NewsFeedHuge crowds filled the streets of Tehran as the funeral procession for Iran’s late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, began moving slowly through the capital. A week of ceremonies are taking place after Khamenei was killed in US-Israeli air attacks in February.Published On 6 Jul 20266 Jul 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Three years after Nigeria ended one of Africa’s largest fuel subsidies, the country’s finances look healthier than they have in years. Government revenues have surged. States are receiving record allocations. Investors have returned. Yet for millions of Nigerians, one question remains unanswered: Did the promised subsidy dividend ever arrive? When President Bola Tinubu declared that “fuel subsidy is gone” in his May 2023 inaugural address, he set in motion the dismantling of a policy that had distorted Nigeria’s public finances for decades. The reform was widely judged unavoidable. The scheme consumed trillions of naira each year, disproportionately benefited higher-income households…