Donald Trump
12 Feb
US consumer inflation unexpectedly accelerated last month, data showed Wednesday, in a moment of potential political peril for President Donald Trump, who quickly blamed the uptick on his predecessor Joe Biden. The consumer price index (CPI) edged up to 3.0 percent in January from a year ago, the Labor Department said in a statement --…
11 Feb
United States (US) President Donald Trump has signed an executive order Monday evening to stop the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), a federal law that prohibits U.S. businesses from bribing foreign officials. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was enacted in 1977 and makes it illegal for companies that operate in the United…
10 Feb
European and Asian stock markets rose Monday as traders appeared to shrug off US President Donald Trump's latest tariff announcement surrounding levies on steel and aluminium. This was in contrast to a week ago when tariff announcements from Trump sent global equities tumbling. "The fact that global equity indices are higher at the start of…
10 Feb
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian accused his US counterpart Donald Trump of seeking to bring Iran "to its knees" on Monday as the country marked the 46th anniversary of the Islamic revolution. Starting in the morning, Iranians began gathering in public spaces across the country, accompanied by pop songs and patriotic ballads, to celebrate the 1979…
10 Feb
Donald Trump said at his inauguration that he had been "saved by God." Now he appears to be returning the favor with an increasingly conservative, religious focus in his second term as US president. The three-times-married billionaire signed an executive order on Friday to open a "Faith Office" at the White House, led by the…
10 Feb
US President Donald Trump said Sunday he had told the Treasury to stop producing penny coins, presenting it as an effort to cut down on government spending. "For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!" Trump wrote on his Truth Social…
10 Feb
The European Union will retaliate by replicating any tariffs imposed on it by the United States, the French foreign minister said on Monday, warning Washington against a trade war. "There is no hesitation when it comes to defending our interests," Jean-Noel Barrot said in an interview with TF1 after US President Donald Trump announced on…
10 Feb
The United States will move to impose 25-percent tariffs on steel and aluminum imports this week, President Donald Trump said Sunday, the latest in a slew of trade levies he has announced. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that the tariffs, which he will announce on Monday, will apply to "any steel coming into…
10 Feb
U.S. President Donald Trump’s straight away comments on the recent mid-air collision, bits of which ramped up again the issues of diversity, inclusion and the rest of (we won’t go into those) it, seem to cast him more in the mould of a neo-nationalist.
10 Feb
H.G. Wells in 1901 said: “If the universe is non-ethical by our present standards, we must reconsider those standards and reconsider our ethics.” Wells’ proposition implies that common humanitarianism must be the starting point as people learn to live with multiple perceptions
10 Feb
The U.S. Embassy’s description of Nigeria is indeed harsh, highlighting the country’s crude infrastructure and poor security. While it’s true that Nigeria faces significant challenges in these areas, the embassy’s assessment seems overly critical
8 Feb
President Donald Trump on Friday froze US aid to South Africa, citing a law in the country that he alleges allows land to be seized from white farmers, despite Johannesburg's denials. The law would "enable the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners' agricultural property without compensation," Trump said in an executive order,…
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M23 fighters advanced on several fronts in DR Congo's volatile east Friday as the UN Security Council for the first time called on Rwanda to stop backing the armed group and halt the bloodshed. The M23 movement, supported by some 4,000 Rwandan soldiers, according to UN experts, now controls large swaths of eastern Democratic Republic…
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Israel's prime minister accused Hamas on Friday of killing two Israeli children in Gaza and said the militants would pay for failing to return their mother, Shiri Bibas, which Hamas blamed on a possible "mix-up" of bodies. Israeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said after an analysis of the remains that Palestinian militants had…
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The Chief Executive Officer of Christian Leadership Skills Incorporated, Reverend Albert Aina, has said that church leaders are not doing well today because they lack adequate training on how to manage people and church administration,...
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The US Defence Department will cut its civilian workforce by at least five percent starting next week, the Pentagon said Friday, as President Donald Trump continues slashing the government payroll. Trump's administration has already begun firing thousands of other federal workers who are on probationary status, and the cuts at the Defense Department—the largest employer…
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Ruben Amorim admits David Moyes is doing a better job reviving Everton than the under-fire Manchester United boss has been able to achieve in his short spell at Old Trafford. Amorim will go head-to-head with Everton boss Moyes on Saturday as he looks to drag United out of their shocking decline. The former Sporting Lisbon…
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Undoubtedly, the lingering electricity supply impasse rocking the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Oyo State, since last October, has done more harm than good to the reputation of the premier tertiary hospital.
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In the last five months, over 500 lives have been lost and many other victims are now facing life-threatening deformities caused by tanker explosions in the country. The Guardian checks reveal that there may be more explosions
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Well, everybody understands that the situation in the country is really tough now. There is nobody that we can blame. It is unfortunate that the previous governments did not do much to correct the ills in the country before handing over and that left the whole burdens...