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It is a ‘doom’ that was foretold, but America made its choice. Now the world, including a large segment of Americans, quakes from the tremor of his bullish swag. United States President Donald Trump is barely a month into his new term, but he has been a wrecking ball demolishing the global order as it was known, and stretching the constitutional borders of his own country’s governance model with imperial fiats. Call him the disruptor-in-chief and you wouldn’t be far off the mark. For a country that for ages was perceived as some refuge for all shades of fugitives excepting criminal ones, Trump came into office promising the largest deportations of  aliens the world has ever seen. He’s been making good on his word. Going by way of executive orders, he has seen to it that many thousands of migrants were airbused away from the ‘land of liberty’ in chains and dehumanised. No fewer than 3,690 Nigerians are marked for that treatment according to a document from the U.S. Immigration and C...

 It lately clocked a year since an explosion ripped through the serene Bodija neighbourhood in Ibadan, leaving fatalities and ruination in its trail. January 16th, 2024 was the fateful day when the tranquility of the highbrow area was shattered at dusk by a deafening blast that sent tremors through the ancient city.  The blast, which was said to have originated from a building located on Aderinola Street, claimed five lives. Nearly 80 others were injured in the incident while scores of houses, vehicles and other items of property were wrecked. Few days after the explosion, Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde confirmed findings that the blast was caused by explosives stored in a residential apartment by illegal miners. According to eyewitnesses, the casualties were either first responders to a fire outbreak caused by an electrical surge that first hit the building where explosives were stored, or passersby too close to the site. Ever since the explosion, neighbourhood residents hav...