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President Donald Trump has announced that the European Union and Mexico will face a 30% tariff on imports to the US from 1 August. He warned he would impose even higher import taxes if either of the US trading partners decided to retaliate. The 27-member EU – America’s biggest trading partner – said earlier this week it hoped to agree …

Vote counting has commenced at Polling Unit 024 in Ward B, Makoko area of Yaba, Lagos, as the 2025 Local Government elections wind down across the state. However, in the same ward at Polling Unit 002, officials of the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) continued to await the arrival of voters. Despite a generally peaceful atmosphere, voter turnout remained …

The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, has warned media organisations and political actors to desist from what he called the “practice of wrenching statements from context in order to fabricate nonexistent conflicts” between him and President Bola Tinubu. The Vice President gave the warning in a statement by Stanley Nkwocha, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Communications …

The All Progressives Congress, APC, is currently leading in the local government Polls which ended at about 3pm as sorting and results are ongoing across the 57 councils of the state. This is coming amid low turnout of voters across the councils. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, speaking with journalists after casting his vote at his Adeniji-Adele electoral ward, acknowledged the delay …

CNN — The deadly surprise attack in Gaza was almost as shocking as its location. On Monday night, a group of Israeli soldiers walked across a route used by tanks and armored vehicles about a mile from the border fence when a bomb exploded. Remotely operated, it tore into the troops from the Netzah Yehuda battalion, a unit made up of ultra-Orthodox soldiers. More Israeli …

Sowore expressed shock over the severity of the charges, describing them as a deliberate ploy to suppress dissent and block the officers from accessing fair justice. The Deputy Inspector-General (DIG) of Police in charge of the Force Intelligence Department (FID), Abuja, Benjamin Nebolisa Okolo, has disclosed that seven police officers recently arrested and detained for raising concerns about police pensions …

•LGs yet to open CBN accounts. •Labour blames govs, AGF for delay. •Falana, SANs accuse govs, FG Exactly one year after the Supreme Court granted full autonomy to the 774 local government areas, the Federal Government has continued to channel allocations through state governments. An analysis by The PUNCH shows that state governors retained control of council allocations totalling N4.5tn, …

Nigeria won’t cave in to pressure from the Donald Trump administration to accept Venezuelan deportees from the United States, the country’s Foreign Affairs Minister Yusuf Tuggar has said. Tuggar, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Thursday, said Nigeria has enough challenges of its own and won’t be a dumping ground for Venezuelan prisoners deported from …

The African Democratic Congress has affirmed that it has no intention of undermining Nigeria’s democracy, clarifying that its mission is to wrest power from the ruling All Progressives Congress democratically. Interim National Publicity Secretary of ADC, Bolaji Abdullahi, stated this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Abdullahi was reacting to a tweet by the Special Adviser to the President …

Egbetokun arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos from an undisclosed foreign trip and immediately departed for Abuja on Thursday evening. Inspector-General of Police Kayode Egbetokun, whose continued stay in office has been a subject of growing controversy, returned to Nigeria on Thursday amid rising tension over a looming nationwide strike by police officers. Egbetokun arrived at the …