Author: Vincent Osuwo

US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday barring transgender athletes from women’s sports. The move is geared towards a pledge that Republican president made before returning for his second term in office with a radical right-wing agenda. The White House disclosed in its daily guidance that Trump would sign a “No Men in Women’s Sports Executive Order” in a ceremony at 3:00 pm (2000 GMT). “Today, President Trump will deliver on his promise to protect women’s sports!” Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly said on X. Kelly said the order would “end the dangerous and unfair participation…

President Bola Tinubu has increased the anticipated 2025 budget from ₦49.7 trillion to ₦54.2 trillion, citing increased earnings from major government institutions. The president communicated the budget adjustment in separate letters to both the Senate and the House of Representatives, which were read during Wednesday’s plenary by Senate President Godswill Akpabio. Tinubu attributed the increase to ₦1.4 trillion in new revenue from the Federal Inland Revenue Service, ₦1.2 trillion from the Nigeria Customs Service, and ₦1.8 trillion earned by other government-owned institutions. Following the announcement, the Senate President referred the President’s request to the Senate Committee on Appropriations for urgent…

Oba Abdulsemiu Ogunjobi, the suspended traditional ruler of Orile Ifo, has been remanded at the Ilaro Correctional Centre in Ogun State after failing to meet his bail conditions. The spokesperson for the correctional facility, Yinka Odukoya, confirmed this to Chronicle NG on Wednesday, noting that the monarch remained in detention as he had yet to meet his bail conditions. Odukoya stated, “Yes, he is in our custody, which indicates he was unable to meet the bail requirements set by the court yesterday. However, once he does, he will be released.” The suspended monarch was charged by the Ogun State Police…

President Bola Tinubu will, on Wednesday, depart Abuja on a private visit to Paris, the French capital. This was disclosed in a statement on Wednesday by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy. According to Onanuga, Tinubu will be heading to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, after his private visit to the French capital. ”In Addis Ababa, President Tinubu will join African leaders at the 46th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council and the 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the AU Heads of State, scheduled from February 12th to 16th, 2025,” Onanuga stated. ”The president will arrive…

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has strongly rejected US President Donald Trump’s proposal to “take over” and “own” the Gaza Strip. “President Mahmud Abbas and the Palestinian leadership expressed their strong rejection of calls to seize the Gaza Strip and displace Palestinians outside their homeland,” Abbas’s office disclosed in a statement, adding that “legitimate Palestinian rights are not negotiable.”. Reading the statement on Palestinian public television, Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina emphasised that the Gaza Strip “is an integral part of the State of Palestine.”. The Palestine Liberation Organisation, a coalition of forces led by Abbas, also rejected Trump’s suggestion to…

Nigerians have criticised self-acclaimed human rights activist-turned politician Aisha Yesufu over her claims that former president Goodluck Jonathan was a corrupt leader. In a statement on X on Tuesday, while describing Jonathan’s administration as a ”failed” administration, Aisha mentioned that he epitomized corruption in the country. She stated that under his administration, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the minister of finance at the time, was borrowing money to pay salaries. ”Ngozi Okonja Iweala @NOIweala, as Minister of Finance under the corrupt and failed administration of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, was borrowing money to pay salaries in the number one economy you all parrot…

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has threatened to embark on an indefinite strike over the sacking of 900 employees of the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company, KADECO. This comes as the National Electricity Employees, NUEE, issued a February 10 deadline to KADECO to recall all the sacked workers, among others, threatening to escalate the industrial crisis to a national scale. The KADECO had on Monday sacked no fewer than 900 employees, promising to pay their benefits at no specified date. NUEE, in a statement by its Acting General Secretary, Dominic Igwebike, stated, “We wish to draw the attention of the company’s…

US president Donald Trump said the US will “take over” Gaza, and “do a good job” in developing the region while putting an end to the Isreali-Palestine tussle over the area. Trump stated this in a joint news conference with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House The president says the US could “do a real job” by removing unexploded bombs and economically redeveloping the territory into “the Riviera of the Middle East” He also proposed that Palestinians should be resettled outside of Gaza while it was rebuilt, though countries throughout the Middle East have previously rejected this proposal. “The…

No fewer than 10 people have been killed in a shooting at a school in central Sweden, including the suspected gunman, police say. The incident at the Risbergska school in Örebro, 200 kilometres (124 miles) west of the Swedish capital, on Tuesday was dubbed the “worst mass shooting in Swedish history” by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. Police stated that they did not previously know the male culprit, who they suspect to be among the dead. There was no immediately identified motivation, and he was believed to be operating alone, they said. “It is difficult to take in the magnitude of…

The US Postal Service (USPS) reports that it has temporarily ceased to receive packages from Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland. A statement on the company’s website states that the ban would not impact letters. The postal service company stated that the stop will remain in effect “until further notice” but did not provide an explanation for its choice. It follows United States President Donald Trump’s imposition of an extra 10% tariff on all Chinese imports into the United States. An exemption allowing items valued at $800 (£641) or less to enter the United States free of tariffs and some…