Donald Trump will host the biggest holders of a cryptocurrency he launched earlier this year for dinner, the company overseeing the currency said Wednesday, sending its price surging. ‘Get $TRUMP. Have Dinner with President TRUMP!’ suggests a promotional message posted on the official website of the cryptocurrency named after the US president. The $TRUMP memecoin was launched at the end …

If you are an African and you have read these two books: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa written by Walter Rodney; and The Wretched of the Earth authored by Frantz Fanon, you would have an entirely different perspective on world events and how they affect the continent. As a student of history and social science, I view certain developments from a …

Elite US university Harvard risked billions of dollars in federal funding Monday as it rejected a list of sweeping demands that the Trump administration said are intended to crack down on campus antisemitism. The call for changes to its governance, hiring practices, and admissions procedures expands on a list Harvard received on 3 April, which ordered officials to shut diversity …

Undoubtedly, the United States’ President Donald Trump does not appear to be a man of peace. He does not even care to be seen as such. Trump is cast in the mould of someone who loves a fight and is always in the mood to engage in one. Where there is no fight, he instigates one. Where there is no …

When listeners in northern Nigeria tuned into Voice of America (VOA) last month, they found music playing in place of their regular broadcast — a telltale sign, historically, that soldiers had seized telecoms offices, and even the government. ‘Was there a coup in the US’?, a VOA journalist, Babangida Jibrin recalled one worried listener asking, as he and colleagues fielded …

The Director-GeneraI of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has said that the recent tariffs announced by the United States would have significant implications for global trade and economic growth prospects. On 2 April, President Donald Trump announced sweeping global tariffs on all imports into the US, imposing 14 percent on Nigeria. In a statement on Thursday, Okonjo-Iweala …

The Maritime Reporters’ Association of Nigeria (MARAN) will be examining the Nigeria-China Currency Swap deal at an event on 15 April. It is coming on the heels of global trade frenzy ignited by United States President Donald Trump’s controversial tariff hike on imports into the country. Themed, “Navigating the Nigeria-Peoples Republic of China Currency Swap: Opportunities and Challenges for Import, Export …

The newly imposed 14 per cent tariff by United States President Donald Trump on exports by Nigerian businesses presents a significant risk to the $10 billion annual exports to that country, potentially disrupting key sectors such as oil export and agricultural trade, experts and trade associations concerned about a potential global trade war stated on Thursday. In separate interviews with …

The live drama staged in the Oval Office on February 28 between United States President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was such that Zelenskyy might never have rehearsed in all his former life as a comedian. Except that it wasn’t funny. It was unprecedented. You would need to go back 64 years to find anything nearly as nasty …

Thirty-three world leaders have declared support for Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, following a tense meeting between him and United States President, Donald Trump. The world leaders also condemned Russia’s actions in Ukraine. Zelensky and Trump’s meeting at the Oval Office on Friday, with US Vice President, James Vance also in attendance, ended in a deadlock. Discussions at the meeting generated …