Author: Alade Adisa

Fenerbahce manager, Jose Mourinho has filed a lawsuit against Galatasaray after the club accused him of making racist statements. The Fenerbahce manager was accused by Galatasaray of making racist statements after Monday’s Istanbul derby and, on Tuesday, the Portuguese’s Turkish club released a statement saying his comments had been taken “completely taken out of context”. On Friday, Fenerbahce said Mourinho was filing a 1,907,000 Turkish Lira lawsuit, through the club’s lawyers, against Galatasaray “due to the attack on the personal rights” of the Portuguese coach. The amount – which is worth around £41,000 – is symbolic as 1907 is the…

President Donald Trump is planning to sign an executive order making English the official language of the United States, multiple White House sources tell CBS News. English is already the most commonly used language in the country, but the U.S. has never had an official language at the federal level. The Wall Street Journal first reported the president’s plan to sign the executive order. The English language executive order will rescind a federal mandate that requires agencies and other recipients of federal funding to provide language assistance to non-English speakers, a mandate issued by former President Bill Clinton. Agencies, however,…

A White House meeting intended to kick off negotiations over a deal over Ukraine’s rare earth minerals devolved Friday afternoon into a remarkable confrontation. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance chastised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and told him he wasn’t grateful enough to the United States. After the meeting, Trump said in a statement on his Truth Social website that Zelenskyy “is not ready” for peace and that he “disrespected” the U.S. “He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office,” Trump said. “He can come back when he is ready for peace.” Minutes later,…

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…