The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, has announced that more than 4,000 women have benefited from the federal government’s free Cesarean section (C-section) initiative since its inauguration. Mr Pate, a professor disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja during a media conference marking the 2025 Safe Motherhood Day. The theme of this…
Chinese-founded e-commerce platforms Temu and Shein have announced plans to raise prices for U.S. customers starting next week, a consequence of the higher tariffs imposed during former President Donald Trump’s attempts to address the trade imbalance between the U.S. and China. Both companies cited increasing operating expenses due to recent changes in global trade rules…
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair All across the United States, people are rising up–refusing to be complicit in the slow-motion annihilation of democracy. They march against a regime that strips away public goods, criminalizes dissent, vanishes students, and hollows out the very institutions meant to protect civic life. But these assaults are not new; they…
The Government of Ghana has assumed operational control of the Damang Mine following the rejection of a lease renewal application by Abosso Goldfields Limited, a subsidiary of South Africa’s Gold Fields Limited. The 30-year mining lease, which expires on April 18, 2025, will not be extended. A statement from the Ministry of Lands and Natural…
The USOPC has received “significant reassurances” from the White House on visas for the Los Angeles 2028 Games, Chair Gene Sykes said on Thursday, weeks after an internal memo showed the Trump administration was weighing sweeping travel restrictions. The memo last month listed 41 countries that could be subject to partial or full visa suspensions,…
