Asian and European shares slid on Wednesday, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 dipping more than 5%, as the latest set of U.S. tariffs including a massive 104% levy on Chinese imports took effect. Markets have been wobbly for days, with investors flummoxed over what to make of President Donald Trump’s trade war. On Tuesday, the S&P 500 dropped…
Eleven governors elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have taken their legal battle to the Supreme Court, challenging what they describe as an overreach of executive power by President Bola Tinubu in suspending the democratic institutions of Rivers State. The legal action, which was officially filed on Tuesday, seeks a constitutional…
Suspected bandits have kidnapped one Samson Ndah Ali, a 30-year-old pastor with the ECWA Church in Mararaba Abro, Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Ali was abducted from his home during the early hours of Tuesday, April 8, 2025. It was gathered that the armed men stormed the pastor’s residence at approximately…
Image by Mahmut Yıldız. The protests that have swept across Turkey in recent weeks were triggered by the jailing of Istanbul’s elected mayor and several members of his municipal team –a move widely perceived as a politically motivated crackdown on democratic opposition. On March 26, 2025, Ekrem İmamoğlu, a politician widely associated with the opposition’s…
Nigeria has lost over 16,000 doctors in the last five to seven years, a situation that has cost the country billions of naira, according to the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate. Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday at the seventh annual capacity-building workshop of the Association of Medical Councils of Africa (AMCOA),…
