The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has sounded the alarm on a ‘cartel’ manipulating market prices nationwide, inflating costs for goods and services despite government stabilisation efforts. Addressing stakeholders during a one-day engagement on exploitative pricing in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, FCCPC Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Tunji Bello, revealed that the commission’s investigations in major cities have uncovered troubling …

A gun battle between suspected cartel members left at least eight dead and one wounded on Wednesday in a mountainous area of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, local authorities said. The state prosecutor’s office said the violence took place in Guachochi, one of the largest towns in a mountainous area that is hard to get to, and which is …