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The World Bank may approve a total of $1.13bn in loans for Nigeria before the end of March 2025 as part of ongoing efforts to support the country’s economic resilience, health security, and education reforms. According to information published on the World Bank’s website, three key projects for Nigeria are at the stage of negotiation,
Hot SourceA United States federal judge on Saturday temporarily blocked any deportations that would occur under President Donald Trump’s use of a little-used wartime law to expedite the expulsion of alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Trump had in the early hours invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 against the group, saying
US judge temporarily blocks Trump’s use of wartime powers to target Venezuelan gang members
A United States federal judge on Saturday temporarily blocked any deportations that would occur under President Donald Trump’s use of a little-used wartime law to expedite the expulsion of alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
Trump had in the early hours invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 against the group, saying the United States was facing an invasion from a criminal organization that has been linked to kidnapping, extortion, organized crime and contract killings.
Judge James Boasberg, who gave a temporary restraining order for 14 days, said the act does not provide a basis for the president’s proclamation given that the terms invasion, predatory incursion really relate to hostile acts perpetrated by any nation and commensurate to war.
Trump, while invoking the act, said members of the gang were conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States with the goal of destabilizing the nation.
DAILY POST reports that the act, which has only been used in times of war, could allow the president to bypass the due process rights of migrants categorized as threats and rapidly deport them.
While the proclamation was released by the White House on Saturday, the wording suggests Trump signed it on Friday.
According to Lee Gelernt, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, who argued for the order in a hearing on Saturday, the proclamation is as lawless as anything the Trump administration has done.
“We are on very dangerous ground when the administration is going to try to use wartime authority, when we’re at peace, for immigration purposes or any other non-military purpose,” Gelernt said.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, in his judgment, said Boasberg had supported Tren de Aragua terrorists over the safety of Americans.
“This order disregards well-established authority regarding President Trump’s power, and it puts the public and law enforcement at risk,” she said in a statement.
US judge temporarily blocks Trump’s use of wartime powers to target Venezuelan gang members
Hot SourceNo fewer than nine Palestinians, including three local journalists, were killed and others wounded on Saturday in an Israeli air strike on Gaza’s northern Beit Lahiya town as Hamas leaders held ceasefire talks with mediators in Cairo. The local health ministry, who stated this also said that several were critically injured as the strike hit
Israeli air strike kills nine in Gaza during ceasefire disputes
No fewer than nine Palestinians, including three local journalists, were killed and others wounded on Saturday in an Israeli air strike on Gaza’s northern Beit Lahiya town as Hamas leaders held ceasefire talks with mediators in Cairo.
The local health ministry, who stated this also said that several were critically injured as the strike hit a car, with casualties inside and outside the vehicle.
According to witnesses and fellow journalists, the people in the car were on a mission for a charity called Al-Khair Foundation in Beit Lahiya, and they were accompanied by journalists and photographers when the strike hit them.
The Palestinian media reported that at least three local journalists were among the dead.
In a statement, the Israeli military said that it had struck two individuals that it identified as terrorists operating a drone that it said posed a threat to forces in Beit Lahiya.
The military later reportedly struck several other suspects who according to it had collected the drone equipment and entered a vehicle.
The military did not say how it had determined that the individuals it had struck were terrorists or provide detail on the threat that the drone had posed to its soldiers.
The incident underscores the fragility of the January 19 ceasefire agreement that halted large-scale fighting in the Gaza Strip.
According to Palestinian health officials, dozens of people have been killed by Israeli fire despite the truce.
Meanwhile, the head of the Hamas-run Gaza government media office, Salama Marouf, denied the army’s allegations.
“The team was made of civilians and worked in an area near a shelter on a mission sponsored by a charity. They were not in a prohibited area and didn’t pose any danger of any kind to the occupation army,” Marouf said in a statement.
Israeli air strike kills nine in Gaza during ceasefire disputes
