The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Tuesday announced that it was placing its staff in the US and around the world on administrative leave as it moved to recall employees from overseas postings. In a statement on its website, the humanitarian agency said that the staff leave would begin shortly before midnight on 7 February 2025. According …

United States (US) President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order withdrawing Washington from a number of United Nations bodies, including its Human Rights Council (UNHRC), and setting up a broader review of US funding for the multilateral organization. The executive order said it withdrew Washington from UNHRC and the main UN relief agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) hi Hu, …

The United States military on Saturday conducted air strikes on Islamic State group targets in Somalia, President Donald Trump announced. ‘This morning I ordered precision military air strikes on the Senior ISIS Attack Planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia’, Trump said on Truth Social. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the strikes targeted IS-Somalia operatives in the …

Hello, and welcome! Like a lit candle in the wind, January has just breezed past. But not without some quakes. America gave us more of those first quakes than any other country on earth. First was the devastating fires in California that took the sail off the new year celebrations, and the plane crash. But all were localized compared to …

I can understand if many people outside the US wish to forget about President Donald Trump and get on with their lives. However hard you try, you can’t keep up with the chaos in the White House since 20 January. It would be a defamation of the animal kingdom to call Trump a bull in a China shop. He is …

No fewer than 5,144 Nigerians may be affected in the initial stage of the ongoing deportation exercises from the United States of America as President Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants continues. The figure includes non-US citizens of Nigeria origin in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), non-detained docket with final orders of removal …

United States President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order ridding the military of what he called ‘transgender ideology’, in a potentially major setback for the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer or Questioning (LGBTQ) people. In a series of orders related to the military that Trump told reporters he had signed on Air Force One, the …

Political parties in the country have raised concerns over the coming into power of United States President Donald Trump, expressing fear that his flurry of executive orders might have affected African countries, including Nigeria. Since his inauguration on Monday, Trump said Washington could impose tariffs on major trading partners; including Canada, Mexico and China, as soon as 1 February. He …

Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, on Friday warned that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, wanted to “manipulate” Donald Trump, after the Kremlin chief praised the US leader and said he was ready for talks with him. Kyiv earlier warned against any Putin-Trump peace talks on the near three-year war without its and European participation. “He wants to manipulate the desire of …

It’s hard to argue when U.S. President Donald Trump says that God saved him to save America. Not only is a rational argument often suspended or lost when God enters the matter, but Trump’s return as the 47th president defies logic. A leader’s job is never done. But how do you rationally explain Kamala Harris’s defeat in the presidential election …