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For most people, sitting in court at their own criminal trial would represent a defining moment of their life. But Donald Trump’s return to his hush money trial Thursday does not even represent the most critical courtroom drama of his day. The ex-president’s attention is certain to stray from what he has repeatedly complained is a “freezing” court in New York to the …

Lawmakers to get Bill Should the proposed Executive bill be passed, politicians found guilty of tax evasion will be barred from seeking elective offices. The plan was made known yesterday by chairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee Taiwo Oyedele. He said an amendment to an existing tax law  will be sent to the National Assembly to …

IBADAN—Leader of the Ilana Omo Oodua, Professor Banji Akintoye has disagreed with leaders of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, on restructuring saying the Yoruba Nation wants self-determination not restructuring. He said this when he was featured on Arise television’s ‘The Morning Show’. The professor of History who repeatedly said the goal to achieve his Yoruba Nation dreams will surely come to pass argued that …

The Kaduna State House of Assembly ad hoc committee probing former Governor Nasir El-Rufai over the debt burden on the state has requested the Ministry of Finance to tender documents on the state’s financial transactions between May 29, 2015 and 2023 for investigation. An official memorandum endorsed by the Clerk of the Assembly, Mrs. Sakinatu Hassan Idris, and dated April 22, was …

ISTANBUL — A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders. The comments by Khalil al-Hayya in an …

New video evidence uncovered by CNN significantly undermines two Pentagon investigations, the latest of which was released last week, into an ISIS-K suicide attack outside Kabul airport, during the American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. The incident was a gruesome coda to America’s longest war, leaving dead 13 United States military service members and about 170 Afghans who were desperately …

— As FG plans to make skill acquisition compulsory for primary, secondary schools As the Tripartite Committee of the National Minimum Wage prepares to release the harmonised recommendation for the new minimum wage expected to take effect from May, the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, on Wednesday, proposed N350,000 as the new living wage. NAAT based its recommendation on …

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has promised that his administration will prioritise the completion of the East-West Road in view of its importance not only to the Niger Delta states but to the entire country. The East-West Road is the major gateway linking the South-South States to other regions in the country and has been in a dilapidated state over the years. The …

Kaduna House Commences Probe Of ex-Gov El-Rufai’s Tenure Sequel to the setting up of a probe committee by the Kaduna State House of Assembly to investigate financial dealings of the state under the administration of former Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, the committee has swung into action and will scrutinise transactions from May 29, 2015, to May 29, 2023. The House of …

The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to serve former Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State with the money laundering charges against him through his lawyer. The trial judge, Emeka Nwite, issued the order following Mr Bello’s absence from court on Tuesday. It made it the second consecutive time the defendant would fail …