Author: Elizabeth Jenrola Oso

President-elect Donald Trump wants to make Hollywood “bigger, better and stronger” and has cast Mel Gibson, Jon Voight, and Sylvester Stallone as stars of what he is calling his “Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California.” The President-elect announced on his social media site on Thursday that the three actors would be his eyes and ears to the movie-making town. “It will again be, like The United States of America itself, The Golden Age of Hollywood!” he wrote on Truth Social. He also called the trio special envoys though Special ambassadors and envoys are typically chosen…

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Benin Zonal Directorate have uncovered a cybercrime training centre in Benin City, Edo State, leading to the arrest of 25 suspected internet fraudsters. EFCC’s spokesman, Dele Oyewale in a statement on Friday said the raid, conducted on Thursday, January 16, 2025, followed a tip-off that revealed the apartment was being used as a “Yahoo Academy” — a hub where individuals were trained in internet fraud and other illicit activities. Oyewale added that acting on this intelligence, operatives moved swiftly to apprehend the suspects at the hideout, noting that the team confiscated…

Just a few days before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, US law enforcement agents Friday carried out exercises using barbed wire and concrete blocks at a crossing on the border with Mexico as tensions rise ahead of the all-important event. Vehicle crossings on an international bridge connecting Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas were halted for about 40 minutes while US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers carried out training, an AFP journalist said. According to the CBP office in El Paso, the exercises began in 2019 and aim to ensure that agents are prepared for potential border incidents. Residents in…

Monday’s inauguration ceremony for President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance will take place inside the Capitol due to dangerously low temperatures, Trump announced on social media on Friday. “There is an Arctic blast sweeping the Country,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I don’t want to see people hurt, or injured, in any way. … Therefore, I have ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches, to be delivered in the United States Capitol Rotunda, as was used by Ronald Reagan in 1985, also because of very cold weather.” Temperatures are expected to be in the…

Netanyahu needs the support of both parties to keep his coalition from collapsing and costing him his position as prime minister. Israeli National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir said Friday that his party would resign and collapse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hold on power if the current cease-fire and hostage deal goes through. Gvir, a member of the far-right Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party slammed the peace deal as unacceptable as he called on other members of Israel’s government to join his protest. “This deal teaches them (Hamas) that they can take hostages and attack, and at the end of the…

Controversial social media personality, Vincent Martins Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan has declared that he is ready to campaign for the son of President, Seyi Tinubu, should he decide to contest the governorship race in Lagos in 2027. The influencer pointed out that that Seyi’s purported governorship ambition is gaining momentum, as those backing the campaign are still testing the waters. VDM said in a video shared via his Instagram page that even though had always canvassed youth inclusiveness in Nigerian politics, he had stayed clear of the political scene, but he is ready to throw himself into it to…

President Joe Biden on Friday announced he would commute the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offences as one of his last major moves just days before leaving office. Biden said the individuals receiving commutations are “serving disproportionately long sentences compared to the sentences they would receive today under current law, policy, and practice” in a Friday statement. “Today’s clemency action provides relief for individuals who received lengthy sentences based on discredited distinctions between crack and powder cocaine, as well as outdated sentencing enhancements for drug crimes,” Biden said. The move makes him the president who has…

The US Supreme Court has upheld a law that bans TikTok nationwide unless its China-based parent company ByteDance sells the platform by this Sunday. TikTok had challenged the law, arguing it would violate free speech protections for the app’s more than 170 million users it says it has in the US. But that argument was rejected by the nation’s highest court, meaning TikTok must now find an approved buyer for the US version of the app or face being removed from app stores and web hosting services. However, the outgoing Biden administration and incoming President Donald Trump have been trying…

Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have arrested a 23-year-old man identified simply as Success for allegedly hacking his father to death with a cutlass. According to PUNCH, the savage attack occurred in Amukpe community in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State a few days ago. The report quoted an eyewitness as saying on Thursday that the incident occurred at the family’s residence in Amukpe after Success demanded N5,000 from his father, who, however, refused to oblige him with the demand. It was gathered that Success did not take kindly to the refusal of the father to grant…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has charged Anamekwe Nwabuoku, the former acting Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), with laundering N1.96 billion. The EFCC took Nwabuoku and Felix Nweke, who used to be a deputy director at the Ministry of Defence, to a federal high court in Abuja in July 2024. The case took a turn in October 2024 when both men asked for a plea bargain – where they would admit guilt in exchange for a lighter sentence. They also requested more time to return the money they allegedly took. At Wednesday’s court session, EFCC lawyer Martha Babatunde…