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Foreign Politics

China rebuffs Trump offer of tariff concessions if Beijing agrees TikTok deal

Beijing, March 27, 2025 – China rebuffed on Thursday a suggestion from US President Donald Trump that he might offer to reduce tariffs on the country to get Beijing’s approval for the sale of popular social media platform TikTok. Trump said this month the United States was in talks with four groups interested in acquiring TikTok, with the app facing an uncertain future in the country. “China is going to have to play a role in that, possibly in the form of an approval and I think they’ll do that.” …

Foreign Money market Politics

Trump’s trade tariffs could smash UK’s hopes of economic recovery

London, March 27, 2025 – Donald Trump’s plan to hit competitors, foes and allies alike with trade tariffs will hammer Rachel Reeves hopes of leading a UK economic recovery, experts warned today. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) warned that if the protectionist US plan developed into a full-blown global trade war it could reduce UK GDP by a full 1 per cent on its own.  The worst-case scenario, in which Trump hits the rest of the world with 20 per cent import taxes to protect US domestic businesses, would also …

Foreign Politics

UK to raise visa fees April 9

London, March 26, 2025 – The United Kingdom is set to significantly raise visa fees in 2025, a move that will impact travelers, students, and workers seeking to visit, study, or work in the country. The fee hikes were announced in a report published on the official UK government website. The same fee will apply to Child Student Visa applications, while those applying for short-term English language courses (lasting six to eleven months) will pay £214, up from the current £200. Work visa categories will also experience significant fee increases. …

Foreign Politics

Trump’s tariffs are likely illegal

Washington, March 26, 2025 – US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Mexican, Canadian, and Chinese imports rest on shaky legal ground. But they are unlikely to be struck down in court. By exploiting a gap between the law and brute power, the Trump administration is laying bare the weakness of America’s constitutional order. This is most obvious with respect to Canada, a country that plays almost no role in supplying the American fentanyl market. The discontinuity between the vast tariffs being imposed on Canada and the notional emergency at …

Foreign Politics

Affirmative action and Namibia’s example

By Paul Ejime Abuja, March 25, 2025 – Affirmative Action refers to proactive measures taken by organisations or governments to ensure equal opportunity for historically marginalised groups.  It aims to address past and present discrimination by implementing policies that promote diversity and inclusion… – The Oxford Review The saying: “What a man can do, a woman can do better,” may be considered a cliché. But Namibia is set to prove doubters wrong, at least as far as gender mainstreaming is concerned. Namibia’s newly elected President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah was sworn in …

Politics

In Rivers State – A republic of anomaly renews its methods

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Lagos, March 24, 2025 -In Nigeria, history tends to repeat itself with unerring accuracy and in tiresome syntax. When he wrote his Report on the Amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria and Administration in 1919, Frederick Lugard described Nigeria as an “anomaly…. of a country with aggregate revenue practically equal to its needs, but divided into two by an arbitrary line of latitude.” While one portion was fiscally viable, he suggested, the other “was dependent on a grant paid by the British taxpayer.” Through the Amalgamation …

General News Politics

Peter Obi describes declaration of state of emergency in Rivers as reckless, unconstitutional.

Lagos, March 19, 2025 – Peter Obi, the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 Election, has described the state of emergency declared in River State by President Bola Tinubu as reckless and unconstitutional. President Bola Tinubu, had on Tuesday, declared a state of emergency in Rivers State following the lingering political crisis in the state between Gov. Siminilaye Fubara of the state and Nyesom Wike, the immediate former governor of the state. Obi made the observation in a post on his X, formerly Twitter, handle on Wednesday. …

General News Politics

Reps donate N705m to FG to augment humanitarian efforts, support the poor

Abuja, March 18, 2025 – Members of the House of Representatives have donated N705 million to the federal government to augment humanitarian efforts of the administration and support vulnerable people in the country The money represents fifty percent deductions from their salaries for six months Stanley Nkwocha, the Senior Special Assistant to The President on Media and Communications, disclosed this in a statement. He said the donation was made on Monday night when President Bola Ahmed Tinubu hosted the leadership and members of the House of Representatives to Ramadan Iftar. …

Politics

Rivers Crisis: Obey Supreme Court, adopt Tinubu’s recipe for peace, TDF urges Fubara, PANDEF

Abuja, March 18, 2025 – The Democratic Front has urged Gov Simlayi Fubara of Rivers and other political stakeholders in the state to ensure that the Supreme Court ruling is sacrosanct In a statement signed by its Chairman, Mallam Danjuma Muhammad and Secretary, Chief Wale Adedayo, TDF urged them to also toe the reconciliatory path laid down by President Bola Tinubu in the aftermath of the court’s stance. It said: “In appreciation of the recent Supreme Court ruling on the political crisis that has bedevilled River State in the last …

Foreign Politics

Russia-Ukraine War: Trump to meet Putin Tuesday to discuss ending the war

Washington, March 17, 2025 – US President Donald Trump announced he would discuss ending the war in Ukraine with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. “A lot of work’s been done over the weekend. We want to see if we can bring that war to an end,” Trump said late Sunday evening. “I think we have a good chance,” he added. Trump is trying to secure Russia’s support for an interim 30-day ceasefire and halt in fighting, which Ukraine accepted last week. “We will be talking about land. We …