Over 50 countries want to negotiate with Donald Trump on the duties announced by the President of the United States. The 10% tariffs, the lowest, came into effect on Saturday, April 5th. The highest, including the 20% duties adopted against the European Union (and Italy), will be formally introduced from Wednesday, April 9th. In the last 24 hours, conflicting signals have arrived from Washington through various administration officials. Is Trump willing to negotiate or not? Can duties be modified or removed in a short time?
The picture varies depending on the source consulted. Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, announced to Abcnews that over 50 nations have called the White House to enter into negotiations. The same message was delivered by Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture, to CNN: “Fifty countries are blowing up the White House lines.”
The initiatives, emphasized with emphasis, are not a surprise for Washington: these countries are trying to come forward “because they understand that they are the ones who have to bear the brunt of the tariffs,” says Hassett.
It is not the case to hypothesize a turnaround in a short time. The ‘basic’ duties at 10%, therefore those with the lowest rate, will remain in force “for days and weeks”, echoes the Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, in an interview with CBS. When asked specifically, Lutnick initially replies by saying that Trump “will protect companies that invest here.” Pressed again on this point, the Commerce Secretary specifies that the measures “will certainly remain in effect for days and weeks,” adding that the president “must reset global trade.”
Trump, meanwhile, is preparing to address the issue in the first face-to-face with another leader. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Washington. Duties, in fact, will not be the only item on the agenda. We will talk “about the hostages, the completion of our victory over Gaza and of course the tariff regime that has also been activated on Israel, I hope to be able to help on this issue,” says Netanyahu.
Israel, which receives full military support from Trump, was hit by 17% tariffs. The Israeli premier will see Secretary Lutnick and will hold an expanded meeting with some members of the Trump administration, including the special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff.
The European Union, awaiting a confrontation with Trump, reiterates its line and its willingness “to engage in negotiations with the United States”, as highlighted by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, during a telephone conversation with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Von der Leyen expresses her “deep concern” about the duties and “for the damage they cause to all countries, both through their direct and indirect effects, even on the poorest nations in the world.” Recognizing that duties represent “a major turning point for the United States”, von der Leyen still expresses her willingness to negotiate, while clarifying that “the EU is ready to defend its interests through proportionate countermeasures, if necessary”.
Nigerian chess master, and the founder of Chess in slums Africa, Tunde Onakoya, has etched his name in gold after setting a new Guinness World record of completing a 64-hour chess marathon at the Time Square in New York City on Sunday.
Onakoya achieved the feat alongside his friend Shawn Martinez by surpassing the previous record of 61 hours, 3 minutes, and 34 seconds set by the Norwegian duo Odin Blikra Vea, and Askild Bryn in June 2024.
The Chess Marathon started at 10 a.m. local time on Thursday, April 17, and concluded around 11 am on Sunday, April 20.
This is the second time Onakoya is attempting the record. In April 2024, he completed a 60-hour session to overtake the previous 56-hour record set in 2018 by Norwegians Hallvard Haug Flatebø and Sjur Ferkingstad.
However, two months after the achievement was short-lived as two Norwegian players set a new record of 61 hours, 3 minutes and 34 seconds in June 2024.
Onakoya expressed delight after surpassing the current record on X on Sunday.
He wrote: “For all the dreamers! We’ve officially BROKEN THE RECORD with my brother,”
After surpassing the 50-hour mark, Onakoya revealed that his target was not only to set a new record but to also build the biggest preschool in Africa for homeless children.
He said: If you had 70 hours to change the world, what would you do? Sometimes the world won’t hand you 70 hours on a golden platter. Sometimes, you have to carve it out of your own breath, your own becoming. Not for applause. Not for records. But for the quiet dreamers who need to see someone leap—so they know it’s possible to fly.
“It’s been over 50 hours of chess beneath the lights of Times Square.Every move, every hour, a love letter to children who’ve never known the luxury of a second chance. If your heart has ever burned for something bigger than yourself, come find us. Stand with us.
“Proceeds from my limited edition chess sets will go directly towards our fundraising goal: to build a tuition-free school for homeless children. This is a dream I’ve carried for years. Because no child should ever have their childhood sacrificed for survival. No dream should be buried beneath the weight of poverty.
“We’re not just doing this for ourselves—we’re doing it for a million dreams. We want to build the biggest preschool in Africa for homeless children.
“The hardest part isn’t staying awake for three days—because a million dreams will do that. But now, more than ever, we need everyone’s support. If you’re in New York, show up at Times Square. Come support us. Help us inspire the world and show the world that it is indeed possible to do great things from a small place.
“My dream is to inspire the world and raise support to build the biggest free school for homeless children in Nigeria,”
Onakoya learned to play chess at a barber’s shop in a slum in Ikorodu, Lagos, where he grew up.
In September 2018, Chess in Slums Africa started as a volunteer driven non-profit organization that aims to empower young ones in impoverished communities through chess.
Chess in Slums Africa has trained over 200 children and provided lifelong scholarships for 20 of them.
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As the Trump administration slashes funding for health, energy and climate research, there’s one science the administration is promoting: de-extinction.
Earlier this month, a biotechnology company announced it had genetically engineered three gray wolf pups to have white hair, more muscular jaws and a larger build — characteristics of the dire wolf, a species that hasn’t roamed the Earth for several millennia.
Now, the Trump administration is citing the case of the dire wolf as it moves to reduce federal protections under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. On Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced a proposed rule to rescind the definition of “harm” under the act — which for decades has included actions like harassing, pursuing, hunting or killing endangered wildlife and plants, as well as habitat destruction.
This undated photo provided by Colossal Biosciences shows a young wolf that was genetically engineered with similarities to the extinct dire wolf. (Colossal Biosciences via AP)
“The status quo is focused on regulation more than innovation. It’s time to fundamentally change how we think about species conservation,” said Interior Secretary Doug Burgum in an April 7 post on X, formerly Twitter. “The revival of the Dire Wolf heralds the advent of a thrilling new era of scientific wonder, showcasing how the concept of ‘de-extinction’ can serve as a bedrock for modern species conservation.”
But bioethicists and conservationists are expressing unease with the kind of scientific research being pioneered by Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based company on a mission to bring back extinct animals.
“Unfortunately, as clever as this science is … it’s can-do science and not should-do science,” said Lindsay Marshall, director of science in animal research at Humane World for Animals, formerly the Humane Society of the U.S.
The dire wolf also came up at an April 9 meeting of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources that considered amendments to a proposed law that would strip federal protections from western Great Lakes gray wolves — the latest in a decadeslong back-and-forth between conservationists, hunters and politicians that has shifted the species on and off the endangered list since its inclusion 50 years ago.
At the congressional meeting, Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman of California suggested an amendment to allow a federal judge to reconsider the removal of federal protections if population numbers begin to decline significantly again.
“Well, didn’t we just bring a wolf back that was here 10,000 years ago? I mean, if it really gets that bad, we can just bring woolly mammoths back,” responded Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, a Republican and the bill’s sponsor.
“That’s a deeply unserious response to what should be a very serious issue,” Huffman replied.
Gray wolves that live in the Great Lakes and West Coast regions are one of 1,662 species currently protected under the Endangered Species Act. Hunting and trapping almost drove them to extinction in the lower 48 states by the mid-20th century.
Ken Angielczyk, curator of fossil mammals, compares a dire wolf skull, left, and a gray wolf skull in the collection at the Field Museum on April 16, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)
Naomi Louchouarn, program director of wildlife partnerships at Humane World for Animals and an expert on human-wildlife coexistence, had a gut reaction to the dire wolf news: “This is going to be a problem for gray wolves,” she recalls thinking. “It almost immediately undermined our ability to protect species.”
In a Wednesday statement to the Tribune, Colossal’s chief science officer, Beth Shapiro, said the company sees de-extinction as “one of many tools” that can speed up the battle against biodiversity loss, which humans are “not close to winning.”
“We don’t see this as an ‘either/or’ question, but rather as a ‘both and,’” she said. “We as a global community need to continue to invest in traditional approaches to conservation and habitat preservation, as well as in the protection of living endangered species.”
Advancements in genetic technologies could revolutionize wildlife conservation, said J. Elizabeth Peace, senior public affairs specialist with the Interior Department, in a statement Wednesday.
“By preserving genetic materials today, we equip future generations with the tools necessary to restore and maintain biodiversity,” the statement said. “This approach aligns with our commitment to stewarding natural resources responsibly, ensuring that our actions today support a sustainable and thriving ecosystem for the future.”
However, critics say de-extinction sends a misleading message and is, overall, a flawed approach to conservation.
“It’s important to realize that they did not bring the dire wolf back from extinction,” said Craig Klugman, a bioethicist and professor of health sciences at DePaul University. “What they did was genetically tweak a gray wolf … so you have a gray wolf that has some characteristics of a dire wolf.”
“It’s like one, but it isn’t one,” he added.
Shapiro said Colossal is working toward functional de-extinction.
“The goal of de-extinction has never been to create perfect genetic copies of an extinct species,” she said, “but instead to bring back key traits that fill an ecological niche that is vacant because of extinction.”
An inefficient science?
As the executive branch targets federal agencies through mass firings, funding cuts and regulatory rollbacks in the name of efficiency, those skeptical of de-extinction argue that it’s an inefficient science.
“It requires a lot of embryos that fail, a lot of pregnancies that don’t take, to get one creature,” Klugman said.
Those few dozen embryos were implanted in the wombs of two female domestic hound mixes, one embryo taking hold in each. A similar procedure was repeated a few months later with another surrogate who gave birth to a third puppy.
“This type of pioneering genetic research often requires multiple attempts to achieve success,” Shapiro said, “and the knowledge gained from both successes and failures contributes to future improvements in efficiency.”
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum listens as President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)
Colossal announced in early March — around the same time Burgum met with company leaders to discuss their role in conservation efforts — that they had genetically edited 38 mice to have hair like the woolly mammoth, a significant step toward engineering Asian elephants with traits similar to those of the extinct species.
To get to those few dozen mice, however, scientists produced 385 embryos, of which 291 were implanted in 16 surrogate females.
“It’s mice. People don’t really care about mice — but we care about mice. We care what’s happening to them,” said Marshall, of Humane World.
Colossal’s facilities are certified by the American Humane Society and registered with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, according to Shapiro. She said the company’s research is overseen by a committee of scientists and nonscientists that is required by federal regulations. The committee reviews and evaluates the company’s research protocols and ensures the ethical use of animals.
Skeptics also argue that animals manipulated to mimic extinct ones likely have no future in the wild.
“They have to be taught how to live and hunt and take care of themselves,” Klugman said. “How do they know how to survive? How can they thrive?”
Leaders at Colossal have acknowledged this reality.
According to an Associated Press report, Matt James, Colossal’s chief animal care expert, said that despite the resemblance, “what they will probably never learn is the finishing move of how to kill a giant elk or a big deer,” because they won’t have opportunities to watch and learn from wild dire wolf parents
Shapiro said the pups won’t be released into the wild, where they would have to compete with gray wolves. Instead, they will live in an “expansive ecological preserve” — the company has said it’s a 2,000-acre site in an undisclosed location — where their health and needs will be continually evaluated under managed care.
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a wild wolf pack’s territory can be as large as 32,000 acres, extending up to 640,000 acres where prey is scarce. They can travel as far as 30 miles a day to hunt.
“If you think about (it), those pups aren’t going to live much of a life trapped in an area that’s a tiny percentage of what they should have,” Marshall said. “They’re not a self-sustaining population. They have nowhere to live. … We don’t know if those animals are going to suffer as they get older.”
Ed Heist, a professor at Southern Illinois University and a conservation geneticist, said the news bothered him.
“This is not conservation, but people conflate it,” he said. “The point is entertainment.”
Nichole Keway Biber feels similarly unsettled. She is a tribal citizen of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa and leads the wolf and wildlife preservation team at the Anishinaabek Caucus of the Michigan Democratic Party. She said it demonstrates that the natural world, to humans, is for consumption or entertainment — and that it ignores the inherent worth of voiceless animals beyond any commercial or amusement benefit they can provide.
“That has a danger,” she said, “of setting a pattern of behavior: to be dismissive of the vulnerable, or take advantage of the vulnerable or be abusive toward the vulnerable.”
Inability to coexist
Louchouarn, the Humane World program director, has dedicated her studies and research to the relationship between humans and animals, specifically carnivores like gray wolves.
Fossil mammals curator Ken Angielczyk compares a dire wolf skull without the tar surrounding the fossil and one skull still in the tar in the collection at the Field Museum on April 16, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)
“The reason our current endangered species are becoming extinct is because we don’t know how to coexist with them,” she said. “And this doesn’t solve that problem at all.”
Humans can treat the symptoms of wildlife conflict with “big, flashy silver bullets” and “in this case, advanced, inefficient science,” she said, but the real solution is behavioral change.
“Assuming that we could actually bring back a full population of animals,” Louchouarn said, “which is so difficult and so crazy — that’s a big if — I don’t understand the point of trying to bring back a woolly mammoth when we already can’t coexist with elephants.”
In the United States, political discussions surrounding gray wolf conservation have been based on different interpretations of whether their populations have recovered enough to be sustainable without protections.
“But we define what well is, not the wolves,” Louchouarn said. “The ecosystem can carry a lot more wolves than that. We just refuse to live with them.”
Recent winter estimates count more than 750 wild gray wolves in Michigan, almost 3,000 in Minnesota and just over 1,000 in Wisconsin. Some of those wolves may occasionally travel to Illinois, where they were common until they were wiped out after the arrival of European settlers.
The bill in the U.S. House aimed at removing protections from the species is called the Pet and Livestock Protection Act, and its supporters and sponsors argue it will allow ranchers and communities to manage conflict with wolves as they fear for the safety of their domesticated animals.
In Wisconsin, wolf attacks on livestock have increased over the last three years, resulting in animal deaths or injuries: from 49 confirmed or probable cases in 2022 to 69 in 2023 and up to 85 in 2024. While wolf attacks on dogs in residential areas are rare, they have also increased in recent years, according to state reports.
Conservation biologists who oppose hunting worry it will only exacerbate this type of conflict. When a wolf is killed, it can disrupt pack dynamics, which can in turn lead to lone wolves preying on livestock or pets outdoors — smaller and easier to kill than larger prey such as bison, elk, moose and deer.
For other people, coexistence is a way of life. Biber said the Anishinaabe, the Indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes region, live by the principle of dabasendiziwin, or humility in regard to other living organisms.
“It’s not self-denigration, but a realistic awareness of our dependence (on) the elements,” she said, “but also plants and animals, and us. And all the other orders of being can exist apart from us. They’re OK. They were here long before. We’re the newcomers.”
Anishinaabe people, like the Ojibwe and the Odawa, believe in a parallel history with the gray wolf or Ma’iingan, that their fates are intrinsically connected.
“What happens to one, will happen to the other,” Biber said.
A question of stewardship
Species don’t exist in a vacuum, Heist often reminds his students at SIU. “They are parts of their communities.”
So when a species ceases to exist, it loses its place in the ecosystem. It’s a void left to be filled by others over hundreds, thousands of years.
Klugman wonders whether resurrecting animals unprepared for the modern world — “which we clearly have not done yet” — would even be fair to them. “Is that us being good stewards of this planet?”
During a livestreamed town hall with Interior Department employees on April 9, Burgum said: “If we’re going to be in anguish about losing a species, now we have an opportunity to bring them back. Pick your favorite species and call up Colossal. And instead of raising money to get animals on the endangered species (list), let’s figure out a way to get them off.”
Curator Ken Angielczyk talks about a dire wolf skull at the Field Museum on April 16, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)
Ken Angielczyk, curator of mammal fossils at the Field Museum who researches extinct species that lived 200 to 300 million years ago, said it’s a misguided approach.
“If that’s the basis … for changing regulations related to the endangered species list, that is very, very premature,” he said. “Because we can’t resurrect things.”
Biber said humans should be focused on preventing further loss. “It’s a lot better use of effort, time, resources, mind power.”
“If the purpose is to restore the damage to the shared ecosystem, we have that opportunity right now,” she said. “And that’s the necessity immediately.”
Angielczyk, who studies mammals that survived the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history, said fossil records after such events show it takes a long time for real ecosystem recovery to occur: 1 to 10 million years — way longer than the human species has existed.
“So, changes that we can cause today quite easily, in some cases, have very, very long-term implications,” he said. “Just another reason why conservation efforts really are important and something that we should be concerned about and actively involved in.”
It’s also crucial to preserve the ability of species to adapt to changing conditions, Heist said, which requires large populations and genetic diversity.
Red wolves represent one such opportunity. The species — once common in most of the eastern and southern United States — still exists, but is critically endangered partly because in the wild, the wolves often mate with coyotes and produce hybrid offspring. That has led to low genetic diversity and weak evolutionary fitness. Just under 20 red wolves exist in their wild, native habitats today.
A collection of dire wolf skulls are on display at the Field Museum on April 16, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)
Alongside the dire wolf news, Colossal announced it cloned four of these hybrids and removed most of the coyote DNA along the way. They say it’s the first step to restoring genetic diversity in the captive breeding populations of red wolves, 241 of which live in 45 facilities across the country.
Some conservationists feel more hopeful about this endeavor, though they still express reservations.
“There is a benefit to trying to bring back some of the genes that would diversify … red wolves, that would enhance their ability to survive,” Louchouarn said. “But will that fix red wolf extinction, at the rate that they’re going extinct? No, because the reason it’s happening is they’re being poached at extreme rates.”
Heist said it might not be practical to spend so much money trying to create genetically diverse red wolves to significantly restore their populations.
Bioethicists and conservationists argue that, at its core, the issue is whether humans can put aside self-interest to invest in the well-being of other creatures.
“This whole idea that extinction is reversible is so dangerous,” Marshall said, “because then it stops us caring.”
Nintendo recently unveiled their upcoming Swtich 2 which is set to launch on June 5, 2025. As expected, the Switch 2 offers a lot of improvements over its predecessor, the Switch. However, it doesn’t really offer too much in terms of innovation this time around compared to Nintendo’s previous consoles.
In a clip highlighted by Easy Allies, former president of PlayStation Shuhei Yoshida discussed his reactions to the announcement of the Switch 2. Evidently, Yoshida actually felt somewhat disappointed by the Switch 2.
“To me, it was a bit of a mixed message from Nintendo,” said Yoshida. “I think Nintendo is losing their identity, in my opinion.”
“To me, it was a bit of a mixed message from Nintendo. I think Nintendo is losing their identity, in my opinion.” — Shuhei Yoshida
It’s honestly kind of amazing how Nintendo has been able to compete with other console developers despite sticking with cheaper hardware and tech. Rather than impressing fans with the specs of their consoles, they instead always pushed for creating unique gameplay experiences that couldn’t really be found on other devices (though it can be argued that others would often copy Nintendo afterwards).
While the Switch 2 is effectively just a better Switch, the new mouse functionality is an interesting new addition for Nintendo. As such, Nintendo actually spent quite a bit of time during their recent Direct simply talking about how the Switch 2 has improved over its predecessor.
“For me, they are always about creating some new experience, like designing hardware and games, together to create that amazing experience,” continued Yoshida.
“But the Switch 2, as we all anticipated, is a better Switch, right? It has a larger screen, a more powerful processor, higher resolution… and they even have the hardware person starting the stream like other platforms do.”
“Because it’s a better Switch, the core premise of the whole Switch 2 is ‘We made things better.’ And that’s something other companies have been doing all the time.” — Shuhei Yoshida
Yoshida then goes on to talk about how Nintendo is now basically just following along with other companies like Sony and Microsoft. The argument is that they’re just producing a better version of the last console rather than innovating new features that can lead to different gameplay experiences.
“Because it’s a better Switch, the core premise of the whole Switch 2 is ‘We made things better.’ And that’s something other companies have been doing all the time,” declared Yoshida.
“Of course, it’s a more powerful Switch, so it’s great if your gaming was only on Nintendo hardware. It’s the first time for you to be able to play amazing games like Elden Ring, but for the core gamers who own multiple [pieces of hardware] like the PlayStation, Xbox, or PC, the games they showed off, especially from third parties, were… well, in theory, it’s amazing to have all these all-stars of industry games on Nintendo hardware. However, what they showed were like… ooh…”
Though the Switch 2 is essentially just a more advanced version of the Switch, it’s being price at $449.99, which has been a huge controversy amongst the gaming community. Nintendo also had to cancel their original preorder date in the U.S. due to concerns regarding tariffs, but recently rescheduled it for April 24.
Will the Switch 2 be worth that price tag, or will the console end up as another disappointment like the Wii U ended up being? We’ll just have to see how things play out to find out.
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An ordinary doorstep turned into a surreal wildlife scene when two massive alligators showed up and rang the doorbell of a Florida home. On Friday, April 18, a user known as byzvntine shared a 30-second video captured by their Ring doorbell camera. The footage, posted to a popular Florida-focused Reddit forum, shows two enormous, uninvited reptiles approaching the front door like they were stopping by for a visit. Theyre just inspectors looking for deficiencies in your houses construction, one commenter joked. Another added, So youre telling me theyre… InvestiGATORS? In the clip, one of the alligators stands tall on its hind legs, snout pressed to the camera, offering an uncomfortably close look into its cold, watchful eye. Its partner hangs back on the walkway, relaxed and motionless, clearly not in a rush. With a thud, the doorbell-ringing gator drops back to all fours, its snout nearly hitting the teal blue doorseemingly satisfied with the job. The two then sit for a moment, as if genuinely expecting someone to answer the door. But when no one comes, the determined gator takes it up a notch. It creeps forward, walks over the welcome mat, and stares through the glass. Then, as if weighing its options, it lifts itself up again and starts clawing at the door and nearby wall. It even appears to try to open the door, scratching away with clear purpose. Unfortunately for the reptile, its head throws off its balance, and within seconds, it topples sideways into a cushioned bench, awkwardly wedging itself between the wall and the bench legs. For a brief second, it shifts slightly, possibly a little embarrassed. Meanwhile, its laid-back friend remains completely unfazed, still lounging in place. The video quickly went viral, with hundreds of comments pouring in. LMAO not them ringing the damn doorbell, one user wrote. Another chimed in, If youre cold, theyre cold. Take your swamp puppies inside. A typical day in Florida: Alligators came to people’s homes at night and rang the doorbell.It’s like a When you come home drunk and bring a friend. pic.twitter.com/zNTIAjtSJz Still Learning (@Still_learner) April 19, 2025 Florida alligators caught on Ring doorbell trying to open a door to enter inside a home. pic.twitter.com/2FboyruJ3j Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 19, 2025 American alligators, native to Florida and Louisiana, can be deceptively fast despite their clumsy land movesable to sprint up to 35 mph on land and swim at 20 mph. In Florida, they live in all 67 counties and are frequently spotted, especially after major weather events like Hurricane Milton, which hit the state in early October. Storms often displace wildlife, pushing them into areas they dont usually inhabit. Christopher Gillette, from Bellowing Acres Sanctuary, has urged locals to remain alert and give these animals space. Flooding gives alligators access to places they normally wouldnt reach. Always keep your distance. In the end, no one opened the door, and the alligators wandered off . The post Terrifying moment massive alligators showed up at a home and rang doorbell(video) appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a warning to influencers and bloggers, cautioning them against promoting unregistered investment schemes.
The Commission emphasized that it is working closely with law enforcement agencies, including the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Nigerian Police Force, and other relevant government bodies, to investigate and prosecute violators.
Director General of the SEC, Dr. Emomotimi Agama, stated that the Investments and Securities Act (ISA) 2025 specifically targets promoters of unregistered schemes, urging celebrities, social media influencers, and bloggers to steer clear of endorsing such ventures to avoid legal consequences.
“The law also targets influencers and bloggers who promote fraudulent schemes, with clear penalties including imprisonment. We are therefore using this medium to warn such persons to desist from promoting unregistered entities”.
Agama said the SEC is intensifying efforts to combat Ponzi schemes following the enactment of the Investments and Securities Act (ISA) 2025, a landmark law signed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The new legislation explicitly defines Ponzi schemes and introduces stringent sanctions, including a minimum fine of ₦20m and a 10-year jail term for promoters of such fraudulent schemes.
Agama emphasized the Commission’s capacity and readiness to tackle Ponzi schemes, stating, “SEC is capable, has the capacity, has the knowhow and of course will be able to deal with anyone caught in this mess”.
He highlighted that the SEC has dealt with similar schemes before and will continue to do so, leveraging the new powers granted by ISA 2025 to protect investors and develop the market.
“The recent collapse of CBEX, a digital investment platform accused of defrauding Nigerians of over ₦1.3tn, has underscored the urgency of this crackdown. CBEX promised unrealistic returns, doubling investments within a month, and deceived many with false claims of global affiliations”
Agama noted, “We will shut down their operations and the promoters will be made to face the full weight of the law”.
He said the ISA 2025 also brings digital assets under the SEC’s regulatory umbrella for the first time, recognizing virtual assets as securities.
This inclusion, Agama said, means that Virtual Asset Service Providers and Digital Asset Exchanges must register with the SEC and comply with regulations, closing previous legal gaps exploited by fraudulent operators.
According to him, “Education is a key pillar in the SEC’s strategy. The Commission has launched podcasts, social media campaigns, and is integrating capital market education into schools and universities.
“We have launched a podcast where we educate and enlighten Nigerians on the dangers of investing in unregistered schemes”.
The SEC also urged Nigerians to verify any investment opportunity with the Commission before committing funds, warning that once it is too good to be true it certainly is not true”.
The SEC DG emphasised that the Commission remains committed to protecting investors in line with its twin objectives of investor protection and market development and urged Nigerians to be cautious, consult professionals before investing, and to avoid schemes promising unrealistic returns.
“The SEC has also established departments for monitoring market activities and conducting inspections to detect irregularities early. We have a monitoring department, we also do onsite inspections, once we hear anything we do something. These proactive measures aim to prevent the recurrence of massive frauds like CBEX.
“The Commission is focused on democratizing wealth through a safe and transparent capital market. We are committed to providing a safe investment environment, the capital market helps you to democratize wealth for everybody.
“The ISA 2025 thus represents a significant step forward in protecting Nigerian investors and fostering a resilient financial market”, he added.
SEC Warns Influencers, Bloggers Against Promoting Unregistered Investment Schemes is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
Fentanyl, the deadly synthetic opioid driving the nation’s high drug overdose rates, is also caught up in another increasingly serious problem: misinformation.
False and misleading narratives on social media, in news reports, and even in popular television dramas suggesting people can overdose from touching fentanyl — rather than ingesting it — are now informing policy and spending decisions.
In an episode of the CBS cop drama “Blue Bloods,” for instance, Detective Maria Baez becomes comatose after accidentally touching powdered fentanyl. In another drama, “S.W.A.T.,” Sgt. Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson warns his co-workers: “You touch the pure stuff without wearing gloves, say good night.”
While fentanyl-related deaths have drastically risen over the past decade, no evidence suggests any resulted from incidentally touching or inhaling it, and little to no evidence that any resulted from consuming it in marijuana products. (Recent data indicates that fentanyl-related deaths have begun to drop.)
There is also almost no evidence that law enforcement personnel are at heightened risk of accidental overdoses due to such exposures. Still, there is a steady stream of reports — which generally turn out to be false — of officers allegedly becoming ill after handling fentanyl.
“It’s only in the TV dramas” where that happens, said Brandon del Pozo, a retired Burlington, Vermont, police chief who researches policing and public health policies and practices at Brown University.
In fact, fentanyl overdoses are commonly caused by ingesting the drug illicitly as a pill or powder. And most accidental exposures occur when people who use drugs, even those who do not use opioids, unknowingly consume fentanyl because it is so often used to “cut” street drugs such as heroin and cocaine.
Despite what scientific evidence suggests about fentanyl and its risks, misinformation can persist in public discourse and among first responders on the front lines of the crisis. Daniel Meloy, a senior community engagement specialist at the drug recovery organizations Operation 2 Save Lives and QRT National, said he thinks of misinformation as “more of an unknown than it is an anxiety or a fear.”
“We’re experiencing it often before the information” can be understood and shared by public health and addiction medicine practitioners, Meloy said.
Some state and local governments are investing money from their share of the billions in opioid settlement funds in efforts to protect first responders from purported risks perpetuated through fentanyl misinformation.
In 2022 and 2023, 19 cities, towns, and counties across eight states used settlement funds to purchase drug detection devices for law enforcement agencies, spending just over $1 million altogether. Two mass spectrometers were purchased for at least $136,000 for the Greeley, Colorado, police department, “to protect those who are tasked with handling those substances.”
Del Pozo, the retired police chief, said fentanyl is present in most illicit opioids found at the scene of an arrest. But that “doesn’t mean you need to spend a lot of money on fentanyl detection for officer safety,” he said. If that spending decision is motivated by officer safety concerns, then it’s “misspent money,” del Pozo said.
Fentanyl misinformation is affecting policy in other ways, too.
Florida, for instance, has on the books a law that makes it a second-degree felony to cause an overdose or bodily injury to a first responder through this kind of secondhand fentanyl exposure. Similar legislation has been considered by states such as Tennessee and West Virginia, the latter stipulating a penalty of 15 years to life imprisonment if the exposure results in death.
Public health advocates worry these laws will make people shy away from seeking help for people who are overdosing.
“A lot of people leave overdose scenes because they don’t want to interact with police,” said Erin Russell, a principal with Health Management Associates, a health care industry research and consulting firm. Florida does include a caveat in its statute that any person “acting in good faith” to seek medical assistance for someone they believe to be overdosing “may not” be arrested, charged, or prosecuted.
And even when public policy is crafted to protect first responders as well as regular people, misinformation can undermine a program’s messaging.
Take Mississippi’s One Pill Can Kill initiative. Led by the state attorney general, Lynn Fitch, the initiative aims to provide resources and education to Mississippi residents about fentanyl and its risks. While it promotes the availability and use of harm reduction tools, such as naloxone and fentanyl test strips, Fitch has also propped up misinformation.
At the 2024 Mississippi Coalition of Bail Sureties conference, Fitch said, “If you figure out that pill’s got fentanyl, you better be ready to dispose of it, because you can get it through your fingers,” based on the repeatedly debunked belief that a person can overdose by simply touching fentanyl.
Officers on the ground, meanwhile, sometimes are warned to proceed with caution in providing lifesaving interventions at overdose scenes because of these alleged accidental exposure risks. This caution is often evidenced in a push to provide first responders with masks and other personal protective equipment. Fitch told the crowd at the conference: “You can’t just go out and give CPR like you did before.” However, as with other secondhand exposures, the risk for a fentanyl overdose from applying mouth-to-mouth is negligible, with no clinical evidence to suggest it has occurred.
Her comments underscore growing concerns, often not supported by science, that officers and first responders increasingly face exposure risks during overdose responses. Her office did not respond to questions about these comments.
Health care experts say they are not against providing first responders with protective equipment, but that fentanyl misinformation is clouding policy and risks delaying critical interventions such as CPR and rescue breathing.
“People are afraid to do rescue breathing because they’re like, ‘Well, what if there’s fentanyl in the person’s mouth,’” Russell said. Hesitating for even a moment because of fentanyl misinformation could delay a technique that “is incredibly important in an overdose response.”
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