Author: Alade Adisa

Government ‘must do more on deportations’ as new estimate suggests more than 1m people are illegally living in UK London is home to as many as 585,000 illegal migrants, equivalent to one in 12 of the city’s population, according to a previously confidential report. There is mounting concern over the failure to control Britain’s borders and the pressure that places on public services such as schools and the NHS. The use of illegal migrants in the black economy, working in roles such as food delivery drivers, is also a concern. Despite this, no official figures on the scale of the problem are provided by…

A United States federal district court has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. John C. Coughenour, US district judge, gave the ruling on Thursday, January 23, 2025. The order to end birthright citizenship had originally been slated to take effect on February 19 but 18 states’ attorneys general filed lawsuits on Tuesday challenging it. The Democratic officials also filed a request asking the court to put the case on a fast track and rule on whether to block enforcement before it takes effect. On Wednesday, the president ordered the deployment of t 1,500 US troops…

The World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said on Thursday that any tit-for-tat trade wars would have catastrophic consequences for global growth in a debate where US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats were discussed. “If we have tit-for-tat retaliation, whether it’s 25 percent tariff (or) 60 percent and we go to where we were in the 1930s we’re going to see double-digit global GDP losses. That’s catastrophic. Everyone will pay,” said Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The WTO director-general urged cooler heads to prevail, quipping: “Please let’s not hyperventilate. I know we are here to…

By Alade Adisa A total of 114 are graduating in the first class category, as Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago Iwoye, Ogun State holds its 34th convocation ceremony. Disclosing this on Thursday at a press briefing held as part of the events for the ceremony in Ago Iwoye, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ayodeji Agboola, said a total of 6,066 would be bagging degrees and diplomas in various programmes during the ceremony. This is just as the Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Mr Sonny Echono would deliver the convocation lecture titled, “TETFund and Educational Development in Nigeria:…

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to once again designate Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels a “foreign terrorist organisation,” the White House announced Wednesday. When former president Joe Biden took over from Trump in 2021, he removed the designation that Trump had signed near the end of his first term. Biden’s move came in response to concern from aid groups that they would need to pull out of Yemen as they are obliged to deal with the rebels, who are effectively the government in vast areas including the capital Sanaa. But weeks after the war in the Gaza Strip…

DUBLIN, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Ireland and Northern Ireland braced for a storm that officials warned could be one of the most dangerous they have faced when it hits early on Friday, forcing the closure of schools, universities and public transport. The Irish and UK weather agencies issued a red wind warning – the highest alert level – for the whole of Ireland, Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland, saying inland winds of up to 130 kilometres (81 miles) per hour from Storm Eowyn could be a danger to life. “Public safety is our core objective for the next 24…

Frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor says businesses must be prepared for ‘disruptions’ Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner in the race to become Germany’s chancellor, has warned German companies about the “great risk” of investing in China. “I say to all representatives of the German economy that the decision to invest in China is a decision involving great risk,” the Christian Democratic party chief said in Berlin on Thursday. He issued his warning during questions and answers after a far-ranging foreign policy speech that highlighted a pro-EU, Atlanticist vision of Berlin’s role on the global stage. “My heartfelt request to all…

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Twenty-five victims’ families and survivors of apartheid-era political crimes have sued South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and his government for what they say is its failure to properly investigate those offences and deliver justice. The group is seeking about 167 million rand ($9 million) in damages, according to the case filed at the High Court in the capital Pretoria on Monday, and shared by the Foundation for Human Rights, an NGO supporting the families, on Thursday. They are also seeking an order compelling Ramaphosa to create a commission of inquiry into the “political interference that…

…Says ‘her father was a UNILAG Professor, she never sold sachet water’ A former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, has called out the leader of the UK’s Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch for her frequent negative remarks about Nigeria. Akinyemi accused Badenoch of using disparaging remarks about Nigeria to advance her political career. Recall Badenoch has been under fire in Nigeria for a series of negative comments about her homeland. Before taking the helm of the Conservative Party, Badenoch had described Nigeria as a socialist country plagued by a corrupt political class and widespread insecurity. She also criticised the…

Justice crawls slowly, but surely, as the Court of Appeal sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital has upheld the death sentence of a popular hotelier, Dr Ramon Adedoyin, who was found guilty in the murder case of Timothy Adegoke, a former Master’s student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. According to the court’s judgment on Thursday, the appellate court noted that the judgment by the Osun State High Court which sentenced Adedoyin to death still stands. The appeal court had reserved the judgment on October 29, 2024. The judgement read in parts, “The judgment of the High Court of…