President Donald Trump will implement tariffs Saturday on the three largest US trading partners — Canada, Mexico and China — the White House said, sparking alarm for global trade. Trump has reiterated his plans for 25 per cent tariffs on neighbours Canada and Mexico, saying they have failed to crack down on illegal migrants crossing the US border and the flow of fentanyl. He also threatened a 10 per cent duty for Chinese goods on the same day, similarly over the drug. “The February 1st deadline that President Trump put into place at a statement several weeks ago continues,”…
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The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), on Thursday said the continued stay in office by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun is legal. Fagbemi, in a statement, explained that Egbetokun’s appointment took effect from October 31, 2023. He, however, added that before his retirement age, the Police Act was amended to allow the occupant of the office to remain and complete the original four-year term granted under Section 7 (6) of the Act, even though he has attained the age of 60 years. This, has, therefore, statutorily extended the…
The UK government announced plans on Wednesday to build four new prisons by 2031 to ease an overcrowding crisis, which triggered the early releases of hundreds of inmates this year. Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood set out the 10-year plan to ensure there is “always a place in our prisons for dangerous offenders”, with the prison population in England and Wales ballooning in recent years. The measures involve finding 14,000 additional prison spaces in the next seven years, including 6,500 places through the four new prisons. It is part of a programme launched by the previous Conservative government to create…
Foundation seeks compulsory DNA test for children The Ikere Ekiti community, in the Ikere Local Council of Ekiti State, has pledged to intervene and assist in unravelling the cause of death of the late Nigerian rapper and musician, Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad. This came as the Europe-based Larry Omodia Foundation for Justice Reform (LOFJR) called for legislation to make compulsory DNA testing for every baby born in Nigeria, drawing on the alleged controversy surrounding the paternity of Mohbad’s son. The community made the declaration when the Foundation visited Ikere-Ekiti, Ekiti State, yesterday to seek the intervention…
The East African Community (EAC) Heads of State and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are seeking a lasting solution to the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). To this end, the EAC rulers met on Wednesday to discuss the situation, according to a statement released by the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, on Thursday. “Last night, we held an Extraordinary Summit of the EAC Heads of State, chaired by the President of Kenya, Samuel Ruto, to discuss the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),” Museveni wrote on X. “We agreed that DRC President Felix…
Belgium on Wednesday warned its citizens against travelling to DR Congo, as Brussels Airlines scrapped flights to Kinshasa after violent protests erupted over the conflict rocking the east of the country. “All travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo is currently discouraged,” Belgium’s foreign ministry said. “On 28 January, a violent protest took place in Kinshasa against, amongst others, the Belgian embassy. There have been announcements that protests may take place again in the coming days.” The statement said that Belgian citizens currently in the DRC “can leave the country by their own means”. The advice came after national…
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday she was confident that her country could avoid being hit with 25-percent tariffs by her US counterpart Donald Trump on February 1. “We don’t think it will happen,” Sheinbaum said at her morning press conference. “And if it does happen, we also have our plan,” she added, declining to give details. “There are conversations. There’s dialogue,” the leftwing leader added. Trump has threatened to slap steep tariffs on Mexico and Canada starting on Saturday because of their failure to stop illegal immigration and drug trafficking into the United States. On Tuesday, White House…
The Swedish government said Wednesday that it was examining the possibility of sending some inmates to serve their sentences in prisons abroad, anticipating heavy pressure on its own prisons in the coming years. Sweden has struggled in recent years to rein in shootings and bombings linked to score-settling between rival criminal gangs. Perpetrators are often young teens who are hired as contract killers because they are under 15, the age of criminal responsibility in Sweden. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s centre-right minority government, which is backed in parliament by the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, came to power in 2022 with a…
1 day ago Israel said on Wednesday that 11 more hostages held in Gaza, including five Thais, would be freed over two days this week as part of a fragile Gaza ceasefire. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said it had received a list from Hamas of eight hostages to be freed on Thursday, including the Thais, and another… 1 day ago Justice Sylvanus Oriji of a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court on Wednesday granted permission to former governor of Taraba, Darius Ishaku, to travel to Arjam, United Arab Emirates (UAE) for his routine medical check up. The judge granted…
Germany’s parliament narrowly passed a resolution Wednesday urging tough restrictions on immigration that was especially controversial because it was backed by the far-right AfD. The motion was brought, ahead of the February 23 elections, by the conservative opposition CDU-CSU and backed by, among others, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. That broke a long-standing taboo on cooperation with the anti-immigration party. MPs passed it with 348 votes in favour and 345 against, with 10 abstentions. The vote came days after a knife attack that killed two people, including a two-year-old child, with an Afghan man arrested at the scene.…