U.S. President Donald Trump says he has pardoned defendants involved in the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol building in Washington. Trump signed a corresponding order in the White House in Washington just hours after his inauguration on Monday. It was initially unclear how many people were affected and for which crimes those pardoned had been convicted. Confidants close to Trump, including his Vice President JD Vance, had previously said that no one who had become violent would be pardoned. Trump, on the other hand, had not wanted to commit to any details before his inauguration. According to US…
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday took gigantic steps to revoke immediate past U.S. president Joe Biden’s policies by signing executive orders. Trump signed a few other executive orders in front of the crowd at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., just a few hours after being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, including the revocation of nearly 80 executive orders from the Biden administration. “I’m revoking nearly 80 destructive radical executive actions of the previous administration,” Trump told the crowd at the signing ceremony. Trump signed an executive order to delay the TikTok ban imposed…
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an order on Monday proclaiming there are only two biological sexes – male and female. Trump signed the order from the White House just hours after his inauguration. “My Administration will defend women’s rights and protect freedom of conscience by using clear and accurate language and policies that recognise women are biologically female, and men are biologically male,” the order states. “It is the policy of the United States to recognise two sexes – male and female. “These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.” The order directs that official…
The Chairman of Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko, on Monday, January 20, 2025, failed to appear before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, for his scheduled arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Otudeko was slated for arraignment alongside a former Managing Director of First Bank Plc, Olabisi Onasanya; a former Board member of Honeywell, Soji Akintayo and a firm, Anchorage Leisure Limited. They were to be arraigned on a 13-count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N12.3billion. At today’s sitting, counsel to Otudeko, Bode Olanipekun, SAN, informed the…
A British teenager on Monday pleaded guilty to charges of murdering three young girls in a knife attack in northern England in July, a crime that caused days of nationwide rioting. Axel Rudakubana, 18, changed his pleas from not guilty to guilty on what was due to be the first day of his trial at Liverpool Crown Court. He pleaded guilty to the murder of Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9, who were at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event in the town of Southport in July. Rudakubana also pleaded guilty to 10 charges of…
Nigerian Military High Command has confirmed the killing of the son of Bello Turji, a notorious terrorist leader in a recent clearance operation on his stronghold on Fakai high ground in Zamfara. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, on Monday in Abuja. Buba said the terrorist leader’s son was killed alongside scores of other terrorists during a coordinated operation between troops of Operation Fansan Yamma and the air component. Buba added that the operation was conducted on Jan. 17, along Shinkafi, Kagara, Fakai , Moriki, Maiwa and Chindo axis. According to…
Counsel to the Chairman of the Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko, charged with N12.3 billion fraud, on Monday appeared before a Federal High Court in Lagos in protest of the charge. Mr Bode Olanipekun (SAN) told the court that he was protesting because the charge had not been served on Otudeko and two others charged along with him. Olanipekun is the counsel to the three defendants. The 13-count charge was preferred by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against Otudeko, a former Managing Director of First Bank Plc., Olabisi Onasanya; and a former board member of Honeywell, Soji Akintayo. They…
Ada Ebere, aka Ada La Pinky, a disc jockey (DJ) and content creator has said that she prefers men who use sex toys on their partners. “If you get a man that uses toys on you when you are doing it, you have got the greatest man ever. “Men often believe that using toys will get you addicted and you will not want the real thing again, but that’s a lie. I love a man that knows how to use toys on me,” she told PUNCH SATURDAY BEATS. The heavily endowed lady also maintained that she was satisfied with her…
Sequel to an outbreak of yet another communal misunderstanding between Ifon and Ilobu communities, the State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has ordered that a curfew be imposed in the two warring communities with immediate effect. The Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Oluomo Kolapo Alimi made this known today in a Press Statement made available to newsmen in Osogbo, the State capital. To forestall further escalation of the crisis, the Governor has approved that a 7pm to 7am curfew be imposed . Kolapo Alimi’s Press Statement in relation to the imposition of the curfew reads further“Following the outbreak of another…
An opinion piece titled “Atiku as the Soul of the Opposition” authored by Suleiman Tajudeen and published in The Whistler newspaper on January 13, 2025, warrants a pointed rebuttal, for it is nothing short of a misleading and insidious attempt to undermine the collective wisdom of Nigerians. The author claims that Atiku is so consumed by the lust for power that he is willing to do “anything—right or wrong” to seize it. Bernard Baruch once wisely stated that every man is entitled to his opinion, but no one is entitled to their own facts. It is for this very reason…