Year: 2025

  President Bola Tinubu has withheld his assent to two bills recently passed by the National Assembly, citing major concerns over their fiscal implications, legal inconsistencies and potential conflicts with federal policies. The development was announced during plenary on Tuesday when the President of the senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio read separate correspondences from the President … Continue reading “Tinubu Withholds Assent To Two Bills, Citing Fiscal And Legal Irregularities”

  Novak Djokovic banished exhaustion and played through an ankle injury scare to make it to the quarterfinals of the Shanghai Masters on Tuesday, beating Spain’s Jaume Munar 6-3, 5-7, 6-2. The hard-won victory keeps Djokovic on track as the favourite to take a record-extending fifth title in the Chinese financial hub, with other top … Continue reading “Djokovic Vanquishes Exhaustion To Push Through To Shanghai Quarterfinals”

  Big Brother Naija Season 10 winner, Opeyemi Ayanwale, popularly known as Imisi, has officially received her grand prize of ₦150 million, comprising ₦80 million in cash and a brand-new Innoson SUV, following her victory in the “10/10” edition of the reality show. The prize presentation took place in Lagos on Tuesday, drawing excitement from … Continue reading “BBNaija S10 Winner Imisi Receives ₦150m Grand Prize”

  Denmark said Tuesday it planned to introduce a social media ban for children under the age of 15. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen did not specify which social media networks would fall under the ban, nor how it would work in practice, as she announced the initiative in a speech to parliament at the opening … Continue reading “Denmark To Ban Social Media For Under-15s”

  Professor Mahmood Yakubu has handed over to May Agbamuche as the Acting National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Agbamuche is the oldest serving National Commissioner in the electoral body. Professor Yakubu announced this on Tuesday at the ongoing meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners at the INEC headquarters in Abuja.    … Continue reading “Yakubu Hands Over To Agbamuche As INEC Acting Chairman”

  Hundreds of bus drivers in Lima ended their strike after government officials agreed to hold talks over the widespread extortion fuelled by organized crime and the murder of 47 drivers this year. Most companies in the transport sector joined the call to stop work for 24 hours in several districts of the Peruvian capital … Continue reading “Peru Bus Drivers Halt Strike Over Extortion ‘Scourge’”

  Residents on a tiny island off the coast of Venezuela and Greenpeace on Tuesday urged the Netherlands to take action on the climate crisis, at the opening of a trial in The Hague. Bonaire is one of the Dutch territories worst-hit by the climate crisis, according to Greenpeace, and through the courts they are … Continue reading “Bonaire Residents Take Netherlands To Court Over Climate”

  A Tunisian man has been freed days after he was sentenced to death by a court in the North African country over Facebook posts deemed offensive to President Kais Saied, his lawyer said Tuesday. The 51-year-old man, Saber Ben Chouchane, had been sentenced on charges including “spreading false news”, defence lawyer Oussama Bouthelja told … Continue reading “Tunisia Frees Man Sentenced To Death Over Facebook Posts”

  Briton John Clarke, Frenchman Michel Devoret, and American John Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work on quantum physics in action, the Nobel jury said. The trio was honoured “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit,” the jury said. Quantum mechanics describes … Continue reading “Trio Wins Physics Nobel For Quantum Mechanical Tunnelling”