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The Minister of Youth, Comrade Ayodele Olawande, has called on the management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to adjust its orientation programme, advocating for a later start to daily activities in a bid to improve the welfare of corps members. Speaking at the 2025 annual management conference in Abuja, themed ‘Transforming the NYSC Scheme to Meet the Yearnings of Contemporary Nigerian Graduates and Society’, Olawande suggested that camp drills begin at 7:00 am instead of the usual 4:00 am. He argued that this adjustment would allow corps members to rest properly, making them more active and engaged during…

Two prominent figures of the Labour Party (LP)—Peter Obi, the party’s 2023 presidential candidate, and Alex Otti, the Governor of Abia State—have called for a crucial meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC). The meeting is set to take place on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. According to a notice jointly issued by Obi and Otti, the NEC meeting will be followed by an interactive town hall engagement with major stakeholders and other key party organs. The engagement will be held at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja, providing a platform for broader discussion on…

A powerful wave of dissent swept across the United States on Saturday as coordinated anti-Trump protests erupted in all 50 states, marking the largest nationwide demonstration of Donald Trump’s second term. The protests were a response to what organizers described as a sweeping attack on Americans’ rights, economic stability, and democratic values. More than 1,200 “Hands Off!” protests took place across cities including Washington D.C., New York, Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles, with an estimated 600,000 people participating. Demonstrators also gathered in solidarity across international cities like London, Paris, Berlin, and Toronto. The mass mobilization came just days after President…

Anti-abortion campaigner Livia Tossici-Bolt was convicted for protesting outside a Bournemouth clinic, despite support from the White House A pro-life activist backed by the White House has said she is fighting for free speech. Livia Tossici-Bolt, 64, was convicted on Friday for protesting outside an abortion clinic by holding a sign that read: “Here to talk if you want to.” The mother of three was handed a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £20,026 in costs after the 2023 protests in Bournemouth, Dorset. On Saturday, she told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme: “What I’m going to do [now]? There isn’t much…

Trump administration has waded into Britain’s heated abortion rights debate by throwing its support behind a UK-based anti-abortion activist recently convicted for breaching protest restrictions. The U.S. intervention has triggered renewed diplomatic friction between the two countries and could complicate ongoing trade negotiations. Livia Tossici-Bolt, a 64-year-old dual UK-Italian citizen and retired NHS medical scientist, was handed a two-year conditional discharge and fined over £20,000 for violating a buffer zone law outside a BPAS abortion clinic in Bournemouth. Her sign simply read, “Here to talk if you want to.” A UK court ruled that her presence breached legislation prohibiting protests…

Moscow — With the faint hope of a ceasefire in Ukraine on the horizon, Russia is preparing for what it sees as an early Christmas gift: the lifting of U.S. sanctions. Behind the scenes, Kremlin officials are already compiling wish lists of which penalties they hope Washington will remove first. The Biden-era restrictions, followed by more under Trump’s second administration, have left Russia facing the world’s most extensive sanctions regime—over 6,500 U.S. measures since February 2022. But recent diplomatic gestures, including a statement from White House envoy Steve Witkoff and Russia’s promise to ensure safe passage through the Black Sea,…

IT IS becoming an odd tradition: America’s secretaries of state use their final days to catalogue their failings in the Middle East. John Kerry did it in 2016. Antony Blinken took his turn on January 14th. In a speech at the Atlantic Council, a think-tank, he described a litany of problems in Gaza: the misery of civilians; the failure to find an alternative to Hamas; the lack of a broader peace plan. As a piece of analysis, it was spot-on; as a farewell from America’s top diplomat, it was self-indictment. Joe Biden never worked out how to exert American power to achieve…

President Donald Trump unleashes a new wave of tariffs and touts his renewed focus on America’s military alliances in Asia, the expectation might be that China—America’s primary strategic competitor—is on the defensive. But behind closed doors in Beijing, the sentiment is far from anxious. Instead, Trump’s return to his “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) agenda is inadvertently giving China a rare geopolitical and economic opening—one that President Xi Jinping appears both prepared for and eager to exploit. Tariffs That Hurt—But Also Help Trump’s latest executive action imposes a steep 34% tariff on Chinese imports, bringing the total burden to 65%…

By Dominic Penna Nigel Farage’s party stands to do well at county council elections after ex-Conservative candidates tear up membership cards At least 60 of Reform UK’s council candidates at the local elections next month have defected from the Conservatives. New analysis shows dozens of former Tory activists, councillors or candidates have torn up their membership cards and are now standing for Reform. Reform has surged in popularity in the nine months since the general election and overtook the Conservatives in the opinion polls at the start of this year. It stands to perform well at the county council elections, while Kemi…

The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has removed the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 7, Abuja, Usaini Gumel, and redeployed him to the Force Headquarters department of Community Policing, Research and Planning, following comments he allegedly made criticising the federal government’s handling of the political crisis in Rivers State. Gumel’s sudden transfer is believed to be connected to his offhand remark describing the March 18 declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers and the suspension of Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his deputy as “unconstitutional.” According to insider reports, Gumel made the statement casually during…