Nigerian stocks yesterday recorded their biggest drop in recent times following the impact of U.S President Donald Trump’s tariffs on global trade markets. Investors lost about N659 billion at the close of trading after the Nigerian Exchange’s All Share Index (ASI) decreased by 1.23 percent, its biggest single-day decline this month, reports C...
•U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a chart of “reciprocal tariffs” US President Donald Trump on Monday threatened huge additional tariffs on imports from China if Beijing did not withdraw its retaliation plans, adding that Washington would begin talks with other countries that want negotiations. The fresh action would stack on an already s...
•A protester shouts slogans during a “Hands Off!” demonstration called by the Democrats Abroad organisation against US President’s administration and his advisor Tesla CEO in Paris, on April 5, 2025 yesterday Tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of major US cities yesterday to oppose the divisive policies of P...
•Trump and Tinubu The United States President, Donald Trump, yesterday enacted sweeping new tariffs in a move that could escalate trade tensions globally at what he tagged “liberation day”. Trump said the U.S. will implement “reciprocal tariffs” on all countries of “approximately half” of what they charge us, reports The Guardian. Among the co...
•A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) yesterday US and European stock markets fell today as investors fretted over what shape US President Donald Trump’s fresh wave of tariffs would take at the end of the day. The dollar and oil prices dipped while gold, viewed as a safe-haven […]
•Donald Trump US President Donald Trump is planning to travel to Saudi Arabia in May on his first foreign trip since returning to the White House, the Axios news website reported yesterday. Planning for the trip is ongoing as the Trump administration works to resume a ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian group […]
•US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump yesterday ordered tighter controls on federal elections, including requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote, as the Republican continues to attack a system he insists remains tilted against him. Experts swiftly denounced his executive order as an abuse of presidential power th...
•Trump, Biden and Harris US President Donald Trump made good yesterday on a threat to revoke the security clearances of his predecessor Joe Biden, including former Vice President Kamala Harris and several senior former White House and national security officials. The list of names stripped of their authorisation to see state secrets included B...
•Putin, Trump and Zelensky Vladimir Putin agreed in a call with Donald Trump yesterday to halt attacks against Ukrainian energy targets but would not accept an immediate full ceasefire and insisted that the West halt all military aid for Kyiv. The US and Russian leaders spoke for more than an hour and a half and […]
•Ex-US President Joe Biden (L) and President Donald Trump Donald Trump declared today he has annulled preventative pardons issued by former President Joe Biden to members of Congress who angered Trump by investigating the attempt to overturn the 2020 US election. It was unclear what, if any, authority Trump has to void presidential pardons iss...
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