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LONDON (AP) — President Donald Trump has said he is strongly considering pulling the U.S. out of NATO, ratcheting up his criticism of European allies and exposing a wider rift in the transatlantic alliance — this time over America’s war alongside Israel against Iran. While Trump’s talk of a possible NATO pullout dates back years, the comments to Britain’s Telegraph …

Operatives of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission on Wednesday took a former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, into custody moments after proceedings at the Federal High Court in Kaduna. El-Rufai, standing trial over alleged corruption, had just concluded a hearing on his bail application when he was bundled into a waiting vehicle and driven away, reportedly …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran kept up its attacks on Persian Gulf neighbors on Wednesday as airstrikes pounded Tehran, while U.S. President Donald Trump again made contradictory statements about whether he was ready to wind down the war or escalate it. Trump struck a hard line Wednesday in a Truth Social post, demanding that Iran stop blocking the …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up one of the term’s most consequential cases, President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens, and he was in the courtroom on Wednesday for the arguments. The justices will hear Trump’s appeal …

The president is telling US allies — who didn’t join his war in Iran because they got no advance notice, didn’t want it and thought it infringed international law — that they’ll be stuck with the consequences. “Go get your own oil,” he wrote on Truth Social Tuesday, shortly before sources told CNN that the administration can’t promise to restore …

The Plateau Government has relaxed the 48-hour curfew earlier imposed on Jos North Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. Mrs Joyce Ramnap, the Commissioner for Information and Communications of the state, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Jos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the government had earlier imposed the curfew, following an attack on …

The Police Command in Lagos State has ordered the immediate withdrawal of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit (Taskforce) from traffic enforcement duties. The command’s spokesperson, SP Abimbola Adebisi, disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Lagos. She said the directive was issued by the Commissioner of Police, Tijani Fatai, to streamline traffic management and …

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has condemned the recent killing of over 30 innocent citizens in Jos, Plateau. The President of MACBAN, Baba Othman-Ngelzarma, in a statement, said the tragic loss of lives was yet another painful reminder of the unending bloodshed that had plagued the state. According to him, such an ugly situation must not …

A one-week warning strike by the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), the Ebonyi College of Education, Ikwo chapter, over unpaid benefits has paralysed academic activities at the institution. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the action, which commenced Monday, halted lectures, examinations, and other academic programmes. The development is contained in a statement signed by the …

  The Speaker of the House, Tajudeen Abbas, read the notices of defection during plenary. No fewer than 27 members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday dumped their political parties in what is one of the largest waves of defections in the Green Chamber ahead of the 2027 general elections. The Speaker of the House, Tajudeen Abbas, read the …