Author: Elizabeth Jenrola Oso

China has vowed to take all necessary countermeasures after President Donald Trump announced a fresh 10 percent tariff hike on Chinese imports. According to CNBC, this latest escalation in the ongoing trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies has raised concerns over global market stability and potential economic ramifications. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce, in a statement released on Friday, expressed firm opposition to the U.S. decision, warning of potential retaliatory measures. “If the U.S. insists on its own way, China will take all necessary countermeasures to defend its legitimate rights and interests,” the Ministry stated, according to a…

A former escort has claimed that Sean “Diddy” Combs anally raped him and then threatened to do to him what he did to “Pac,” a new lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in New York on Wednesday, Feb. 26 on behalf of an anonymous man, who accuses Combs, 55, of drugging and anally raping him and then threatening him to stay quiet about the incident. Per the complaint, the alleged victim, then 31, met Combs through a male companion service in Florida where he worked as a contractor and would travel from Florida to New York City…

Former child star and beloved millennial actress, Michelle Trachtenberg, best known for her work on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Gossip Girl,” was found dead at her New York City home, police said Wednesday. She was 39. Police responded to a 911 call shortly after 8 a.m. at 1 Columbus Place, where “officers observed a 39-year-old female unconscious and unresponsive,” according to an NYPD statement. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene. There is no foul play suspected and the New York Medical Examiner is investigating the cause of death, police said. “It is with great sadness to confirm that…

The Prime Minister of the UK, Keir Starmer on Wednesday dismissed the assertion by the leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, that he had followed her advice on cutting the aid budget. The prime minister also took a swipe at her political stance, calling her a “self-appointed saviour of Western civilisation” in what appeared to be a pointed jab at her rhetoric. Badenoch had during the plenary session, suggested that Starmer had acted on her recommendation to reduce aid spending while questioning inconsistencies in the government’s defence budget figures. Ms Badenoch said, “Over the weekend I suggested to the…

Several major news outlets, including Reuters, Associated Press (AP), and HuffPost, were on Wednesday blocked from covering President Donald Trump’s first cabinet meeting by the White House. However, it is yet to be known whether the blockade will be permanent or a one-off censorship. This move is part of the administration’s new policy on media coverage, which gives the White House control over which outlets can cover the president in smaller spaces like the Oval Office. Only select media outlets, such as TV crews from ABC and Newsmax, and correspondents from Axios and Bloomberg News, were allowed to cover the…

Gene Hackman, the versatile leading man renowned for his smoldering performance as hard-nosed New York City narc Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in The French Connection, has died. He was 95. The much-admired two-time Oscar winner, who played gritty and cantankerous characters with a virile, edgy intensity, and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In a statement to the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper, Adan Mendoza, the Santa Fe County Sheriff in New Mexico, said: “We can confirm that both Gene Hackman and his wife were found deceased Wednesday afternoon at their residence…

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has disclosed that its seized 87 truckloads of banned, expired and substandard medicinal products, including USAID and UNFPA-donated antiretroviral drugs, male and female condoms, among others. Disclosing this on Wednesday, NAFDAC’s Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, who briefed State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, said NAFDAC is currently on a nationwide crackdown on illicit drug trade, which saw it raiding the country’s three major open drug markets of Ariaria and Eziukwu in Aba, Bridge Head Market in Onitsha and Idumota Drug Market in Lagos. She said the…

…To expand energy access The Federal Government has commissioned a 990kWp Interconnected Mini-Grid in Lambata Community, Gurara Local Government Area of Niger State, as part of its efforts to boost rural electrification and expand access to clean energy solutions. The project, implemented under the Interconnected Mini-Grid Acceleration Scheme (IMAS) of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), was officially inaugurated by the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Power and the Nigerian Energy Support Programme (NESP), Abba Aliyu, MD/CEO of REA stated in a tweet on his X account on Wednesday. The Lambata mini-grid is one…

In furtherance of its anti-fake products war, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has introduced GreenBook, Traceability Project, and Pediatric Policy to combat counterfeit medical products. Speaking on Wednesday, NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, who was represented by Bitrus Fraden, the agency’s Director of Post-Marketing Surveillance, said GreenBook serves as a tool to help consumers identify and avoid potentially fake or substandard products. The NAFDAC boss spoke at a meeting for sensitizing stakeholders on detecting substandard and falsified medical products in the Northwest Zone. She disclosed that Traceability is a legal framework for tracking products…

Older brother and former manager of Paul and Peter Okoye of the defunct P-Square music group, Jude Okoye Chigozie has been ordered to be remanded at Ikoyi Correctional Centre by a Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. Justice A.O. Owoeye, the presiding judge gave the order after Okoye was arraigned by the Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, February 26, 2025. Okoye was arraigned alongside his company, Northside Music Ltd, on a seven-count charge bordering on money laundering to the tune of N1.38 billion, $1million and £34,537.59. One of the charges reads:…