Tag: america
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Trade war: China hits back with 84% tarrifs on US products from Thursday
China will impose 84 percent tariffs on US imports, up from 34 percent, the finance ministry said Wednesday, hours after similar levies by the United States came into force. US President Donald Trump’s latest salvo of tariffs came into effect on dozens of trading partners Wednesday, including punishing 104 percent duties on imports of Chinese…
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Trade War: Trump’s 14% tariff places N323.96bn Nigerian non-oil exports to US at risk
President of the United States, Donald Trump, on April 2, 2025, announced the enforcement of sweeping tariffs on all goods imported into the country, a move that has placed over N323.96bn worth of Nigerian exports at risk. Tagged the “Universal Baseline Tariff”, the policy imposes a 10 per cent levy on all imported products, with…
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China hits back at Trump, slams US with 34% tariff on imports
China has imposed 34% tariffs on imports from the United States US. This is coming hours after President Donald Trump unveiled the same amount against Beijing under his reciprocal tariff plan. The new China tariffs against the US are expected to go into effect on April 10, according to The Wall Street Journal. China’s Ministry…
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Shock as Pitbull dog shoots owner in America
A one-year-old pit bull named Oreo has accidentally shot its owner, in Memphis, Tennessee, a police reported on Wednesday.
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Come and see American wonder – By Owei Lakemfa
There was a popular song when I was a child titled ‘Come and see American wonder.’ It was not so much about the celebration of the perceived wonders of the United States, US. It was more about the incredulous things emanating from ‘God’s own country’.
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From America first to America alone: The lab meets the street – By Azu Ishiekwene
It’s nearly 20 years since Mark Steyn wrote a non-fiction book, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It.
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The return of President Donald Trump – Hope Eghagha
One of the much vaunted and supposedly sacrosanct features of democracy according to America, is the power of the people and the inviolability of the ballot box in choosing who leads the country. Added to this is a smooth transition of power from one administration to another even where there is a ‘hostile takeover’, that…
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Trump’s America, still America, their America – By Ikeddy Isiguzo
AMERICA, as most of us call the United States of America, USA, is a big country with confusions that match its size. The latest is the presidency of Donald Trump, whose face knots delightfully when he issues another threat – it could be to the unborn. Racism, genderisation of issues, in a country clawing itself…
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From America to Nigeria, good technology possible without pains – By Okoh Aihe
The tech industry promises to be very interesting this year. It will bring excitment, it will also inflict pain. Nations will go after each other and try to sabotage each other’s growth where possible. Others will expand growth and dominance and even extend it to conquest as manifest display of strength.
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Even in technology, it’s America First – By Okoh Aihe
The American Elections are over and President Donald Trump won convincingly, literally blowing Kamala Harris out of the political space. The contrarians had their emotional expectations but the big boys who spent their money for Trump and the ordinary folks in the motley crowd, had their way.