The tariffs on companies from Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam will still need to be ratified at a meeting of the International Trade Commission in June. The United States on Monday announced its intention to impose tariffs of up to 3,521 percent on solar panels from Southeast Asia, a move aimed at countering alleged Chinese…
Harvard sued US President Donald Trump’s administration Monday in a sharp escalation of the fight between the prestigious university and the Republican, who has threatened its funding and sought to impose outside political supervision. Trump has sought to bring several prestigious universities to heel over claims they tolerated campus anti-Semitism, threatening their budgets, tax-exempt status…
In choosing to be buried in Rome’s Santa Maria Maggiore basilica, he will become the first pope in more than 100 years to be laid to rest outside the Vatican. Pope Francis’s funeral will be held on Saturday, the Vatican announced Tuesday, as world leaders from US President Donald Trump to Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky said…
Quadri Alabi, the 17-year-old boy who gained national attention after standing in front of the convoy of Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, during the 2023 election campaign, has revealed a harrowing experience of being detained and made to clean faeces all day at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre in Lagos. Alabi made the revelation on…
The President, National Union of Road Transport Workers, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, has defended his ‘kundusi’ comment amidst the growing mockery among Nigerians. Akinsanya made the defence while speaking with the delegates of the union in a viral video on Tuesday. According to him, he is uneducated and could probably be bad…
Another wave of financial loss has hit unsuspecting Nigerians as the CBEX app, a fraudulent investment platform, has disappeared with users’ money. This app, like many others before it, operated under the classic model of a Ponzi scheme, deceiving people with promises of high and quick returns. Many are left heartbroken, some in debt, all…
