For the MIT-educated physicist behind the torpedo bat, it’s more about the talent of the players than their lumber at the plate. The torpedo model — a striking design in which wood is moved lower down the barrel after the label and shapes the end a little like a bowling pin — became the talk of major league baseball over the weekend. The New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers that traveled a combined 3,695 feet on Saturday. Paul Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger, Austin Wells, Anthony Volpe and Jazz Chisholm Jr. all went deep using a torpedo bat. New York’s 15 homers...
President Trump Coined April 2 ‘Liberation Day’, To Roll Out A Set Of Tariff
U.S. President Donald Trump has called April 2 “Liberation Day,” with promises to roll out a set of tariffs, or taxes on imports from other countries, that he claimed will free the country from a reliance on foreign goods. To do this, Trump has said he’ll impose “reciprocal” tariffs to match the duties that other countries charge on U.S. products. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday that Trump would unveil his plans to place reciprocal tariffs on nearly all American trading partners on Wednesday, but maintained that the details are up to the president to announce. Since taking office just months ago, Trump has proven...
Israel Strikes Building In Southern Beirut, Killing At Least 3 People
The Israeli military struck a building in Beirut’s southern suburbs early Tuesday, killing at least three people, in an attack it said said it targeted a member of the Hezbollah militant group. The airstrike came without warning days after Israel launched an attack on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Friday for the first time since a ceasefire ended fighting between Israeli forces and the Hezbollah militant group in November. The Israeli military had warned residents in the crowded suburbs before the attack after two projectiles were launched from southern Lebanon, which Hezbollah denied firing. At least seven other people were...
Justice Department Instructed To Dismiss Legal Challenge To Georgia Election Law
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday instructed the Justice Department to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a sweeping election overhaul that Georgia Republican lawmakers passed in the wake of President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in the state. The lawsuit, filed in June 2021 under former President Joe Biden, alleged that the Georgia law was intended to deny Black voters equal access to the ballot. Bondi said the Biden administration was pushing “false claims of suppression.” “Georgians deserve secure elections, not fabricated claims of false voter suppression meant to divide us,” she said. The law was part of a trend of Republican-backed measures that...
POLICE CONSTABLE RECRUITMENT – SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES TO RESUME TRAINING 12th APRIL, 2025
PRESS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS UNIT PRESS RELEASE. POLICE CONSTABLE RECRUITMENT – SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES TO RESUME TRAINING 12th APRIL, 2025 The Police Service Commission and the Nigeria Police Force have approved 12th April, 2025, as the resumption date for the commencement of training for all successful candidates in the ongoing 2022 Recruitment of Constables into the Nigeria Police Force. Applicants who participated in the recently concluded Medical Screening Exercise held between February 26th to 12th March, 2025 are to log-on to the recruitment portal https://apply.policerecruitment.gov.ng to check their application status and print their Training Call-up slip. The portal will open from...
ON RIVERS: LETTER TO PRESIDENT TINUBU by Ugoji Egbujo
My dear president, Ramadan Kareem. On your mandate, I stand, sit and sleep. The country now knows you can bark and bite. You are not all braggadocio and Tinubu dance. Even though you are a progressive, you can be as ruthless as Abacha. In one fell swoop you sent an elected governor and house assembly packing. Then the NASS acted like a living rubber stamp in approving the proclamation. In a move reminiscent of a stepover in football, they out-maneuvered the Constitution. Some say it was roguery. I think it was routine political opportunism by a man of political timbre...
Lagos Petrol Price Hits Record High at N935/Litre31 March 2025
The cost of petrol across the Lagos metropolis surged over the weekend, with pump prices now ranging between N925 per litre and N935 per litre. The increase follows a spike in the landing cost of the commodity and changes in supply dynamics . This latest development stems from multiple factors, including the rise in the landing cost of petrol, the cessation of naira transactions by Dangote Refinery, and delays in the finalization of the naira-for-crude policy. Industry sources confirmed that these factors have forced petrol marketers to adjust their prices accordingly. As of last Monday, the landing cost of petrol...
“What Nigeria Could—and Still Can—Become: A Wake-Up Call to the Youth of 2025″By Chief Obafemi Awolowo (Reimagined for Today by AI)Inspired by his historic speech in Kano, 1970 —Adapted for Nigeria’s Rising Generation
Fellow Nigerians,It is now 55 years since that powerful moment in Kano, when I, as Federal Commissioner for Finance, challenged our nation to think boldly and act courageously. Today, I speak not from the past, but to the present—and to you, the youth of 2025, with a dream still burning in my heart: a Nigeria that fulfills its vast promise. We emerged from the civil war in 1970 battered but unbowed. We had survived armed rebellion and the growing pains of nine new states—without borrowing a kobo from abroad. Imagine that! Thirty months of war, and not a single credit...
Ikoyi Estate Resident Who Threatens Cleaner With ‘Child Labour’ Begs For Forgiveness, Places Her On Salary
“I don’t mean to disrespect the woman and her 11 year old kid, y’all should forgive me” –@Justadetoun, the lady that recorded her estate cleaner, whom had gone there, enlisting the help of her daughter, cries out as she begs her for forgiveness. This is coming after so many people criticised her video, especially the recording of the child she sort to protect. Adetoun had threatened to report the cleaner’s to appropriate authority who would take custody of the child, if she dares bring the child to work again. She claimed such act is ‘child labour’ and had commanded the...