US President Donald Trump has intensified his trade dispute with Canada by reaffirming his decision to impose 25% tariffs on Canadian imports, alongside additional tariffs on energy products. The latest measures, which also include 10% tariffs on energy imports from Canada, have sparked fresh concerns about a deepening trade war between the two nations. Trump…
Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, has reiterated the People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) commitment to unity and resilience, asserting that the party will emerge stronger despite ongoing internal challenges. Speaking in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Sunday, during a condolence visit to Governor Seyi Makinde over the passing of his elder brother, Sunday Makinde, Lawal expressed optimism…
Arsenal delivered a commanding 5-1 victory over Manchester City, significantly bolstering their Premier League title aspirations. This was in a stunning display at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday. The Gunners seized an early advantage when Martin Ødegaard capitalised on a defensive lapse by City, slotting the ball past goalkeeper Stefan Ortega. Despite Erling Haaland equalising…
TikTok has gone offline in the United States just hours before a new law banning the platform was set to take effect, leaving millions of users without access to the popular video-sharing app. A message displayed on the app informed users in the US that the ban had been enacted, stating, “You can’t use TikTok…
Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed to investigate Donald Trump for his alleged effort to overturn results of the 2020 election, has left the US Department of Justice, prosecutors said Saturday in a court filing. “The Special Counsel completed his work and submitted his final confidential report on January 7, 2025, and separated from the…
The Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers home games scheduled for Saturday have been postponed due to ongoing wildfires raging across the city, the NBA announced late Friday. Advertisement The league said in a statement that the Lakers’ game against the San Antonio Spurs and the Clippers’ fixture against the Charlotte Hornets had both…
President Bola Tinubu is set to attend the 2025 edition of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week in the United Arab Emirates. Disclosing this in a statement on Friday, presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, said the summit will take place from January 12 to 18. Tinubu’s planned trip to the Middle East is at the behest of the…
The UN rights chief insisted Friday that regulating hate speech and harmful content online “is not censorship”, days after Meta scrapped its fact-checking programme on Facebook and Instagram citing censorship concerns. “Allowing hate speech and harmful content online has real world consequences. Regulating such content is not censorship,” Volker Turk said on X. “My Office…
The US Supreme Court on Friday will hear TikTok’s appeal of a law that would force its Chinese owner to sell the video-sharing platform or shut it down in the United States. Here’s a closer look at the rise of the platform as it awaits its fate: Born in China TikTok’s meteoric rise from a…
Lebanon’s lawmakers elected on Thursday army chief Joseph Aoun as president after a two-year vacancy of the position, in a step towards lifting the war-battered country out of financial crisis. Aoun, who turns 61 on Friday, arrived inside parliament to swear his oath to general applause, wearing a dark suit and bright blue tie instead…
