November 2025

he Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has embarked on a large-scale retrenchment exercise, cutting about 800 jobs in a significant layoff in the power sector in recent years. The exercise, which began on Wednesday, November 5, 2025, marks a major phase in the company’s ongoing internal restructuring. AEDC, which supplies electricity to the Federal Capital…

Donald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC, following criticism over how a speech the US president made was edited and used in a Panorama documentary. His legal team has given the BBC a deadline of 14 November to make a “full and fair retraction” of the documentary – or face being sued for…