Author: Alade Adisa

Finally reacting to the ongoing drama involving her husband, Godswill Akpabio and Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, wife of the Senate President, Mrs. Ekaette Akpabio, has dismissed allegations of sexual harassment leveled against her husband by the Kogi Central senator, describing them as false and unfounded. Mrs. Akpabio, who spoke to journalists on Friday, defended her husband’s character, stating that he is a disciplined and jovial man who respects women. Earlier, Akpoti-Uduaghan had alleged that her ordeal in the Senate began after she rejected Akpabio’s sexual advances, a claim the wife of the senate president now controvert. In a response to the…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday arraigned a former governor of Abia State, Theodore Orji, his son, Chinedum Orji, and three others before Justice Lilian Abai of the Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia State on a 16-count charge bordering on conspiracy, official corruption, stealing and diversion of public funds to the tune of N60.85 billion. Arraigned alongside Governor Orji and his son, who was also a former Speaker of the Abia House of Assembly on Friday were Nto Onwumene, King Obioma and Romanus K. Madu. The anti-graft agency accused former governor Orji, and the other…

President Bola Tinubu has signed the N54.99 trillion 2025 Appropriation Bill into law, marking the commencement of the 2025 fiscal year.. The president signed the budget in the presence of principal officers of the National Assembly and other top government officials in a small ceremony in his office at the State House, Abuja on Friday. The bill was passed by the two chambers of the National Assembly on Thursday, February 13, after Tinubu asked for an increase from the proposed N49.7 trillion. The National Assembly approved a ₦54.99 trillion ($36.6bn) budget for the fiscal year, surpassing President Bola Tinubu’s initial…

Fenerbahce manager, Jose Mourinho has been banned for four games and fined a total of £35,194 for comments made after Monday’s game with local rivals Galatasaray. Mourinho was accused by Galatasaray of making racist statements after the Istanbul derby and, on Tuesday, Fenerbahce released a statement saying his comments had been taken “completely taken out of context.” The 0-0 draw was refereed by Slovenian Slavko Vincic after both clubs requested a foreign official take charge of the fixture. The Portuguese coach, 62, said that he went to the referee’s dressing room after Monday’s game, telling the fourth official that “if…

The Trump administration has terminated its funding of the joint United Nations programme on HIV/Aids, known as UNAids, delivering another devastating blow to the global fight against the disease. The notice that US funding of UNAids is being cut off is the latest move by the administration to end American involvement in life-saving health and anti-poverty programs around the world. It was issued by Peter Marocco, a Trump loyalist who is spearheading the evisceration of the US overseas aid programme through USAid. Marocco said in a letter to UNAids that its funding was being terminated “for the convenience of the…

…Says it’s ‘very different place’ where he has investments President Donald Trump has hinted that the United Kingdom (UK) may avoid the sort of swingeing tariffs that he has threatened to impose on the European Union ( EU). When it was put to him that he said yesterday the EU was constructed to “screw” the US on trade, and when he was asked what Keir Starmer could say to him that would ensure that Britain did not face tariffs, Trump at first claimed not to have said that “bad word.” He then launched into a long attack on the EU…

…As he meets with PM Keir Starmer President Trump said Thursday he will visit the United Kingdom in the “near future” and accepted an invitation for a state visit with King Charles during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House. “It’s a great honor to have Prime Minister Starmer in the Oval Office,” Trump said. “It’s a very special place and he’s a special man. And the United Kingdom is a — is a wonderful, this is a wonderful country that I know very well. I’m there a lot. And I’ll be going, I’ll be…

Hamas is willing to cede political power and administrative governance of the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian unity government, but would not disarm unless an independent Palestinian state is achieved, Dr. Basem Naim, a senior political official for Hamas, told NBC News. “We are ready today, if not yesterday, to step back from governance to hand it over to a body, a government, a committee, that is ready to run the Gaza Strip,” Naim said. Naim made his comments during a critical impasse: the first phase of a tenuous deal between Hamas and Israel is set to end on Saturday,…

…With ‘reciprocal’ duties planned for April President Donald Trump said Thursday that 25% tariffs on goods imported from Canada and Mexico would go into effect Tuesday. In a post on his Truth Social app, Trump said the tariffs were needed to combat the continued flow of illicit drugs into the United States. “We cannot allow this scourge to continue to harm the USA,” he wrote, adding that the tariffs would be imposed “until it stops, or is seriously limited.” Trump also said reciprocal tariffs on major trading partners, which he threatened earlier this month, were slated to take effect April…

….As Hamas returns bodies of four hostages Militant group, Hamas has handed over the bodies of four hostages, and Israel has released more than 600 Palestinian prisoners, as the five-week-old ceasefire appeared to get back on track after a breach that had brought fears of a return to war in Gaza. The bodies of the hostages were transferred to the Red Cross in southern Gaza and driven to the border point at Kerem Shalom at about midnight, when immediate identity checks were carried out using dental records. By dawn on Thursday morning, three out of the four had been positively…