By Alade Adisa The Governing Council of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) has suspended its Vice-Chancellor, Professor Abayomi Sunday Fasina, following allegations of sexual harassment made by a senior university official, Engineer Folasade Adebayo. The suspension was confirmed in a statement on Monday by the university’s Registrar and Secretary to the Governing Council, Mr. Mufutau A. Ibrahim. The statement reads in part: “The Governing Council of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), at its 7th Emergency Meeting held online on Monday, April 14, 2025, considered the request of the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Abayomi Sunday Fasina, to proceed on his accumulated Annual and…
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By Adeniyi Yusuf Senator Ali Ndume, who represents Borno South Senatorial District, has urged President Bola Tinubu to address growing concerns over perceived regional imbalance in federal appointments, rather than allowing presidential aides to target critics. Appearing on Channels Television’s Politics on Friday, as reported by The New Daily Prime, Ndume expressed strong dissatisfaction with the appointments. He noted that such imbalance, if left unaddressed, could deepen resentment and strengthen emerging opposition alliances that may challenge both the President and the All Progressives Congress (APC). He said, “Seventy-two of Tinubu’s appointees are Yorubas. I’m not talking about North or South.…
By Olaoluwa Vincent Ajayi Donald Trump is set to undergo a routine medical examination on Friday at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington DC — though there’s no guarantee the public will learn much from it. At 78, Trump was the oldest president in U.S. history at the time of his swearing-in, yet he continues to offer little transparency about his health. Despite promising last August that he would “very gladly” release his medical records, no such disclosure has been made. In a post on his social media platform ahead of the check-up, Trump wrote: “I have…
Israel’s prime minister tied his country’s fate to Donald Trump. Now America is talking to its enemy AT LEAST Binyamin Netanyahu wore a suit. The Israeli prime minister had a few goals when he met Donald Trump at the White House on April 7th. He needed relief from a newly imposed 17% tariff on Israeli goods. He hoped to convince Mr Trump that Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, was meddling dangerously in Syria. And he wanted to explain that the time was right to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities: diplomacy would be futile. The meeting did not go as he had planned. It…
As his policy turns on a dime, pity those tasked with justifying his actions For people who believe themselves to be autonomous individuals possessed of their own free will, the past week has been a bracing corrective. Everyone, down to the most rugged individualist, is a pawn in Donald Trump’s grand caper, bouncing between his threats of economic chaos and acts of mercy. On April 9th all it took was a few dozen words from him, delaying some of his most extreme tariffs for 90 days, to transform a spreading panic in financial markets into a full risk-taking frenzy. Given this…
The world’s two biggest economies begin an almighty trade clash Victoria Harbour is Hong Kong’s most glamorous body of water. But Rambler Channel is where the free port’s work is done. The quays along its banks extend over more than 7km. Gantry cranes, rail-mounted or rubber-tyred, serve as many as 24 vessels at a time. Last year, the surrounding port handled over 10m of the standardised containers that carry goods across the world, parcelling globalisation up into metal boxes, in green, blue and red. No bell or siren interrupted the port’s work at a minute past noon on April 9th—nothing to…
It has only just begun to use it TO WIN A game of Scrabble, start at the bottom of the periodic table. The 17 “rare earths” that reside there have longish names, such as dysprosium and praseodymium, which are replete with point-worthy letters. They share other traits, too. All are produced and used in minuscule amounts, yet are crucial to a range of high-tech goods, from batteries and renewables to weapons and medical devices. More important still, all are largely supplied to the world by China. Rare earths are also part of the trade war. On April 4th, responding to Donald…
A 24-year-old driver who killed a young boy in a high-speed hit-and-run before fleeing the scene and going drinking has been sentenced to five years in prison and banned from driving for 20 years. Sergee Kelly, of Upper Mullaghmore, Co Sligo, struck nine-year-old Ronan Wilson with his car in Bundoran, Co Donegal, on the evening of September 23, 2023. Kelly was driving at a speed of up to 111km/h — well over the limit — when he hit the child with such force that Ronan was thrown 58 metres down the road. Instead of stopping to help, Kelly fled the…
By Olaoluwa Vincent Ajayi A 62-year-old Cork landlord has been sentenced to seven years in prison in the Republic of Ireland for raping a young woman tenant after plying her with brandy until she passed out. Michael Paul O’Leary, of Four Winds, Ballyarthur, Fermoy, was convicted by a jury earlier this year at the Central Criminal Court for raping Lorita O’Donoghue at a property she shared with her fiancé, whom she was renting from O’Leary. The attack occurred on May 28, 2022, while her fiancé was away for the weekend. Ms Justice Siobhán Lankford described the offence as a serious…
In a surprise shift that signals the potential for renewed transatlantic dialogue, the European Union has announced a 90-day delay in implementing retaliatory tariffs against the United States, following President Donald Trump’s sudden decision to pause new levies on European imports. The move, confirmed by E.U. officials on Thursday, came just one day after the White House unexpectedly hit pause on its “reciprocal” tariff strategy, which had included plans to impose a 20% blanket tariff on E.U. goods. Instead, that figure has been reduced to 10% for the duration of the negotiation window. President Trump’s reversal came hours after European…
