Author: Alade Adisa

Nigeria has received a loan totalling $1.08 billion from the World Bank to support education, nutrition, and economic resilience in Nigeria. The financial institution stated on its website on Wednesday that the concessional loans are aimed at improving the quality of education, building household and community resilience, and enhancing nutrition for underserved groups. The statement read, “The World Bank has approved three operations in Nigeria, totalling $1.08bn in concessional financing, to enhance education quality, build household and community resilience, and improve nutrition for underserved groups.” The approved operations include $500m in additional financing for the Community Action for Resilience and…

…Says new tariffs will become effective at midnight ET US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, announced sweeping tariffs on some of its largest trading partners, and threatened to unleash a global trade war on what he has dubbed “liberation day.” “This is one of the most important days, in my opinion, in American history,” Trump said, speaking on the White House lawn. For decades America had been “looted, pillaged and raped” by its trading partners, he said. “In many cases, the friend is worse than the foe.” Trump said he intends to impose “reciprocal tariffs” on foreign imports, charging US…

Finally, Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State can heave a sigh of relief and get down to brass tacks as the Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has affirmed him and the All Progressives Congress (APC), winners of the state’s September 21, 2024 governorship poll. The three-man panel of the tribunal upheld the election as being validly conducted, just as it dismissed the petition brought before it by Asue Ighodalo and the Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday in Abuja. Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Wilfred Kpochi delivered the landmark judgment on Wednesday evening. Among others, the tribunal held that the…

Suspended Kogi Central senator, Mrs Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has claimed that the duo of Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, manufactured fake constituents to initiate her recall process. This is in a reaction to last week’s recall process activated against the embattled legislator. Despite state and police bans for any gathering or celebration, supporters from Kogi Central’s five local government areas gathered early in Ihima, Okehi LGA, to welcome the embattled PDP lawmaker on Tuesday. Natasha received a rousing welcome from supporters despite a government ban on rallies and processions. However, the senator in…

The coast is gradually becoming clear for Governor Monday Okpebholo and the All Progressives Congress (APC) as they have won round one in the series of petitions challenging their declaration as winners of the September 21, 2024, governorship election in Edo State. This was as the Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal throws out a petition instituted against them by the Action Alliance (AA) and one Adekunle Rufai Omoaje for lacking merit and being frivolous. In the first judgment of the Tribunal on Wednesday, it was held that Adekunle Rufai Omoaje, who filed the joint petition, had no locus standi…

Not less than 1,238 Nigerian nurses and midwives allegedly indicted in a widespread exam fraud at Yunnik Test Centre in Ibadan, Oyo State are facing probe by Nursing and Midwifery Council in the United Kingdom. The NMC also said 717 Nigerian nurses and midwives are being probed for the exam fraud at the Ibadan centre. The council, which disclosed this in a statement, noted that 1,955 Nigerian professionals were impacted by the concerns at Yunnik test centre because they took their tests there. Earlier, the Home Office asked some Nigerian nurses and midwives being probed for an exam fraud that…

Nigerians woke up on Wednesday to hear of a mildly shocking news that President Bola Tinubu has removed Malam Mele Kyari as Group Chief Executive Officer, CEO of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd and appointed Mr Bayo Bashir Ojulari as his replacement. The action is regarded as part of the long expected sweeping change at the oil company that also included the reconstitution of the Chief Pius Akinyelure led board. The appointment of Ojulari will not be news to many as there have been speculations for some months now that he is the President’s preferred candidate for the…

The world stands still as the ‘D Day’ for the US President Donald Trump’s much talked-about all-sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs finally arrives. The Republican billionaire is poised to unveil his tariffs, which he threatened would touch every country in the world on Wednesday (today), but kept the world guessing until the last minute about the scope of an onslaught that could spark a global trade war. The two-time president will roll out the measures flanked by cabinet members in the Rose Garden of the White House at 4:00 pm (2000 GMT) — after Wall Street markets close — promising that…

Moscow has described the latest US peace proposals as unacceptable to the Kremlin, highlighting the limited progress Donald Trump has made on his promise to end the war in Ukraine since taking office in January. Sergei Ryabkov, a foreign policy adviser to Vladimir Putin, said some of Russia’s key demands were not being addressed by the US proposals to end the war, in comments that marked a rare acknowledgment from the Russian side that talks with the US over Ukraine had stalled in recent weeks. “We take the models and solutions proposed by the Americans very seriously, but we can’t…

The fourth U.S. Army soldier who went missing during a scheduled training exercise near Pabradė, Lithuania, last week was found dead on Tuesday, according to the Army. “The soldier was found after a search by hundreds of rescue workers from the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Lithuanian Armed Forces, Polish Armed Forces, Estonian Armed Forces, and many other elements of the Lithuanian government and civilian agencies,” the Army said in a statement. The bodies of the other three soldiers were recovered on Monday. The four soldiers are all based in Fort Stewart, Georgia. Their identities have not been released. “This past…