U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his war against elite U.S. universities Tuesday with a threat to strip Harvard’s tax-exempt status if the country’s most famous educational establishment refuses to submit to wide-ranging government oversight. Harvard stands out for defying Trump, in contrast to several other universities and a string of powerful law firms that have…
Borno South District Senator Ali Ndume has replied to presidential aide Daniel Bwala about the senator’s criticism of President Bola Tinubu’s policies. Mr Ndume, who has been in the National Assembly for over 20 years, had alleged lopsidedness in appointments by the federal government and criticised the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers…
Bauchi State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has called on China based Nigerian social media content creator, Dan Bello to withdraw what it said is the defamatory and malicious publication he made recently or face legal action. CAN described the said publication as “baseless, malicious and a deliberate attempt to malign its…
A Peruvian court has sentenced former President Ollanta Humala and his wife, Nadine Heredia, to 15 years in prison for their involvement in a far-reaching corruption scandal tied to Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht. The couple was found guilty of money laundering for accepting illegal contributions from Odebrecht and the Venezuelan government to finance Humala’s 2006…
Image by Annie Spratt. “They schools can’t teach us shit my people need freedom we tryin to get all we can get” -Dead Prez, They Schools I was in the fourth grade the first time someone called me “cynical.” It came from an adult—a teacher at that. I’ve long forgotten whatever it was I could…
