United States President, Donald Trump, has told Israel to stop bombing Gaza after Hamas agreed to release hostages under a United States peace plan, even as Israeli forces pressed ahead with heavy strikes. Residents in Gaza said tanks shelled Talateeni Street, a key artery in the centre of Gaza City, shortly after Trump’s call, Reuters…
United States president Donald Trump has warned that Europe is in decline because of migration, telling leaders they need to close borders and deport migrants. Trump made this known while delivering his remarks at the United Nations General Assembly. “They’re being destroyed. Europe is in serious trouble. They’ve been invaded by a force of illegal…
The 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has dismissed circulating images suggesting he recently met with former U.S. President Donald Trump and the Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Musiliu “MC Oluomo” Akinsanya, describing them as fake. In a statement posted on his X handle on Wednesday titled “Clarification on…
A top US official, Tom Homan, was caught accepting a $50,000 cash bribe in exchange for facilitating government contracts for business executives in an undercover investigation by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a report by MSNBC has shown. Mr Homan, the White House border czar responsible for co-piloting the present administration’s immigration crackdown,…
US President Donald Trump publicly urged his Justice Department on Saturday to take action against his enemies, the latest in a series of moves that critics say have shattered the agency’s traditional independence. In a social media post addressing “Pam” — apparently Attorney General Pam Bondi — Trump fumed over the lack of legal action…
US President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation imposing an annual $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications. The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa classification in the United States that allows employers to hire foreign workers in specialised fields like medicine, tech, and engineering. H-1B visas, which currently costs employers around $1,500 in administrative fees, are…
U.S. authorities said they have commenced the deportation of foreigners, including Nigerians, who celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist, who was shot dead at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. U.S. secretary of secretary Marco Rubio disclosed this in a post on X on Monday, sharing a video in which he addressed the…
Charlie Kirk, a conservative political activist and co-founder of Turning Point USA, was killed Wednesday after being shot at an event at Utah Valley University, President Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. He was 31. As Trump remade the Republican Party, Kirk embodied the party’s newfound populist conservatism in the social media age….
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has rejected an invitation by the United States Consulate in Nigeria to attend a visa reinterview, warning that under President Donald Trump, whom he described as a “White Idi Amin,” such processes appear suspect and unsafe. In an exclusive interview with TheNEWS/PMNEWS on Tuesday, 9 September, Soyinka confirmed he had…
At least 54 people were shot, seven of them fatally, across Chicago during Labor Day weekend, police said, including a drive-by shooting that left seven people injured. The shootings came as President Donald Trump renewed threats to send federal agents and National Guard troops to Chicago, a move opposed by Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and…