Donald Trump predicted this a few weeks ago. He and Jimmy Kimmel have had a personal feud for years. It was announced a few weeks ago that Stephen Colbert's show was being cancelled and Donald Trump said that it was great news and that Jimmy Kimmel would be next.
1) As you know President Donald Trump has been engaged in a war with comedians. The war began near the end of his first term.
Many American late night talk shows are hosted by comedians. It has been the case for centuries that comedians always make fun of politicians. In recent times politicians have learnt to ignore comedians.
But not Donald Trump.
Trump has been in a war of words with virtually every comedian in the past 8 years! Some people ask if he doesn't have anything better to do. He'll insult them one night, they'll make fun of him the next night and he'll insult them again that night.
2) CBS has a very popular news magazine programme called 60 Minutes. The show has been on for decades. You might remember that they did an expose on corruption in Nigeria in the 1990s (during the Abacha era) and again in the 2000s (during the Obasanjo era). They used hidden cameras to expose officials that were soliciting bribes.
Anyway, 60 Minutes interviewed Kamala Harris during the last election campaign. They asked her a particular question during the interview and she gave a long answer. CBS used part of the answer in its advert for the programme and then used the other part on the actual show. In other words, the part that was used in the advert was not used in the actual show.
Donald Trump claimed that the part that was used in the advert was bad and that's why CBS cut it from the actual show. He claimed that they cut it in order to make Kamala Harris look good. He claimed that it was electoral interference and that they wanted to unfairly help Kamala Harris. Therefore he sued CBS.
3) CBS is owned by Paramount. The lawsuit has been on for a while, but Paramount are on the verge of a very important merger with Skydance. The lawsuit is a distraction and problem for them, so they decided to make the problem go away by paying Donald Trump in order to settle the lawsuit. They paid Trump $16 million.
4) At almost the same time that they settled the lawsuit, CBS announced that they were cancelling The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. They say that the show will end next year (after airing for 33 years).
Many people believe that the cancellation was part of the settlement with Donald Trump, but CBS say that it was because of money. They say that the show is not making as much money as it used to and that they have to reorganise their spending because of the merger.
Stephen Colbert has often made fun of Donald Trump and Trump has been celebrating the "sacking" of Colbert. He has made a lot of posts about it on social media.
So these are the 3 videos that I need to watch tonight.
1) Stephen Colbert's response to Trump's posts.
2) Jon Stewart's response to everything. Jon has been one of my favourite talk show hosts since the 2000s. Stephen Colbert is like his protege. Stephen started out writing for Jon decades ago.
3) Jimmy Kimmel's response to everything.
Stephen Colbert makes fun of Trump, but he doesn't go overboard. He is more credible because people know that he will praise Trump if Trump deserves it and they know that he's simply saying the truth.
However, the beef between Trump and Jimmy Kimmel is personal. He is the person that Trump usually mentions by name and Trump has even brought Jimmy's wife into the beef. Jimmy does not hold back and he has completely attacked, insulted and made fun of Trump.
I can't wait to hear what Jimmy has to say about everything.
The war between Donald Trump and Jimmy Kimmel has been epic and personal. Jimmy Kimmel has been the comedian that has been able to annoy Trump the most. There was a time during his campaign that Donald Trump mentioned Jimmy Kimmel every single day.
Kimmel is on holiday, but that did not prevent him from getting involved.
Donald Trump posted (on his Truth Social website) that he heard that Jimmy Kimmel might be the next person to be fired. He said that these comedians have no talent and that they are not funny. He wondered why the networks paid them millions of dollars to destroy television.
Jimmy responded (on Instagram) that he heard that Trump might be the next to go, or maybe it's just another well kept secret (he's obviously referring to the Epstein issue).
(See screenshots of the posts below).
There's a guest host on the show while Jimmy is on holiday and this was her reaction.
ABC has pulled late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off air indefinitely over comments he made about the shooting of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk.
"Jimmy Kimmel Live will be pre-empted indefinitely," a spokesperson for the Disney-owned network said in a statement. Kimmel did not comment to the BBC as he emerged shortly afterwards from the television studio in Los Angeles.
Earlier this week, Kimmel said during his show that the "Maga gang" was trying to score political points off Kirk's killing.
On Tuesday, a 22-year-old suspect appeared in court charged with aggravated murder over last Wednesday's shooting of the 31-year-old conservative activist.
Kimmel said in his Monday night monologue: "The Maga Gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it."
The late-night host also criticised flags being flown at half mast in honour of Kirk, and mocked the president's reaction to the shooting.
"This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he calls a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish," said Kimmel, who has often mocked Trump.
On the day Kirk was shot, Kimmel took to Instagram to condemn the attack and send "love" to the conservative activist's family.
Authorities have not specified a motive in Kirk's fatal shooting on 10 September.
According to charging documents, the suspect's mother "explained that over the last year or so, he had become political and started to lean more to the left – becoming more pro-gay and trans-rights oriented".
The suspect, Tyler Robinson, was not registered to any political party and did not vote in the 2022 or 2024 elections, according to authorities.
Shortly after ABC announced Kimmel had been suspended, Trump said it was "great news for America".
"The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done," the president wrote in a social media post.
Trump also criticised two other late-night hosts, Jimmy Fallon and and Seth Myers, whom he described as "two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible".
The president has previously traded barbs with Kimmel. Last year, the ABC star - who has hosted four Academy Awards ceremonies - read aloud Trump's scathing review of his performance while on stage in the middle of presenting the Oscars.
Kimmel's monologue on Monday provoked criticism, including from the chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Brendan Carr, who said on a right-wing podcast on Wednesday that the host had shown "the sickest conduct possible" as he urged Disney to take action.
"[Broadcasters] have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest," said Carr, who was appointed by Trump to lead the US communications regulator.
"Look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or, you know, there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead," Carr told The Benny Show.
He noted that an apology from Kimmel would be a "very reasonable, minimal step".
But Anna Gomez, the only Democratic member of the FCC, criticised Carr's remarks.
She posted on X that "an inexcusable act of political violence by one disturbed individual must never be exploited as justification for broader censorship or control".
She also accused the Trump administration of "increasingly using the weight of government power to suppress lawful expression, not because it glorifies violence or breaks the law, but because it challenges those in power or reflects views they oppose".
The ABC announcement came just after one of the biggest owners of TV stations in the US, Nexstar Media, said it would not air Jimmy Kimmel Live! "for the foreseeable future beginning with tonight's show".
Nexstar said the comedian's remarks about Kirk were "offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse".
"[We] do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views, or values of the local communities in which we are located," said Andrew Alford, president of Nexstar's broadcasting division.
"Continuing to give Mr Kimmel a broadcast platform in the communities we serve is simply not in the public interest at the current time, and we have made the difficult decision to pre-empt his show in an effort to let cooler heads prevail as we move toward the resumption of respectful, constructive dialogue."
Carr thanked Nexstar "for doing the right thing" and said he hoped other broadcasters would follow its lead. Nexstar is currently seeking FCC approval for its planned $6.2bn merger with Tegna.
Sinclair, the largest ABC affiliate group in the US, followed suit. It said it would air a special remembrance programme dedicated to Kirk this Friday during the original time slot for Kimmel's show.
A person familiar with Kimmel's situation told CNBC that the host had not been fired, adding that bosses at the network intended to speak to the comedian about what he should say when he goes back on air.
Kimmel is the latest late-night host to see his long-running programme run into issues as more viewers turn to streaming over traditional network viewing.
In July, rival network CBS announced it would end The Late Show With Stephen Colbert next year after 11 seasons.
Network executives said the move was "not related in any way to the show's performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount".
However, Colbert tore into the network and its parent company over the decision.
He accused CBS of leaking financial figures to the press, and alluded to a $16m (£13.5m) settlement with Trump after he sued the network over an interview its 60 Minutes programme did last year with former Vice-President Kamala Harris.
That payout came several months after the Disney-owned ABC agreed to pay $15m (£12m) to Trump to settle a defamation lawsuit after its star anchor George Stephanopoulos falsely and repeatedly said during an interview that the president had been found "liable for rape".
A jury in a civil case had determined Trump was liable for "sexual abuse", which has a specific definition under New York law.
After he was taken off air, Kimmel left the studio on Hollywood Boulevard wearing a flannel shirt and cap and rode away in a car without comment.
Fans of the show, who had been queuing up to join the live audience, expressed disappointment about the cancellation.
Janna Blackwell, who was on holiday from Virginia, told the BBC: "You know, this is getting ridiculous and stupid.
"Freedom of speech. he shared his opinion and is beign cancelled. To me that is bizare."
A small protest was also held outside the studio with a sign saying "Trump must go now".
With additional reporting from Regan Morris in Los Angeles.
Onome Ebi (born 8 May 1983) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back for the Nigeria women's national team. In 2023, she became the first African footballer, male or female, to play in 6 FIFA World Cup tournaments.
Club career
She played for Bayelsa Queens FC in the Nigerian Women's Championship before moving to Piteå IF and Djurgårdens IF in Sweden's Damallsvenskan. Ebi said "I enjoyed my stay in Turkey because of the good weather. Going to Sweden was a different ball game, as the cold weather made it difficult for me to play good football. The amateur nature of the Swedish league made me launch a return to Turkey for Ataşehir Belediyespor FC in the First League."
She then played for Turkish sides Düvenciler Lisesispor and Ataşehir Belediyespor at the First League. She made her Champions League debut in August 2012 while playing for Ataşehir Belediyespor.
Ebi returned to the Swedish Damallsvenskan in 2013 to play for Sunnanå SK before going to Belarus to play for FC Minsk in the Belarusian Premier League. While there, she was a member of the team that won the Belarusian Premier League, the Belarusian Women's Cup and the Belarusian Women's Super Cup twice.
In both club and international competitions, Ebi played as the number five in the team due to the significance it holds for her. When she arrived at Minsk, the jersey number was already taken, so she asked for the number 55 instead.
She later played for Chinese second division side Henan Jianye, where she signed in 2018.
Ebi made a significant move by joining Naija Ratels FC of Abuja for the upcoming 2023–24 Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) season, set to kick off on November 15. The veteran footballer , with a remarkable history of six FIFA Women’s World Cups, was officially introduced at a vibrant ceremony in Abuja by the Naija Ratels management. Despite numerous offers from both local and international clubs following her participation in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, the 40-year-old defender expressed her joy in returning to the local league after more than a decade abroad. Ebi emphasized her deliberate choice of Naija Ratels, citing the club's youthful profile within the league, coupled with impressive organization and discipline.
International career
Ebi is a former member of the Nigerian national team, making her debut in 2003. She currently holds the record for the most caps for Nigeria, making 109 appearances for the Super Falcons.
On 6 July 2019, she became the first African Footballer to play in five Fifa World Cup Tournaments, taking part in the 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015, 2019 editions of the FIFA Women's World Cup and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Ebi was also a member of the Nigerian squad in the 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018 editions of the African Women's Championship, winning the tournament four times 2010, 2014) 2016 and 2018.
On 16 June 2023, she was included in the 23-player Nigerian squad for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023. By appearing as a substitute in Nigeria's 3–2 victory over Australia at 40 years and 50 days, she became the first African player, male or female, to play in six world cup tournaments.
“Today, I officially retire from professional football. The journey has been filled with challenges, victories, and lessons that shaped me into who I am today. Though I hang up my boots, my purpose in the game continues — to give back, to guide, and to be a voice for players.
“Today, I officially retire from professional football. The journey has been filled with challenges, victories, and lessons that shaped me into who I am today. Though I hang up my boots, my purpose in the game continues — to give back, to guide, and to be a voice for players.
I am happy today that, from the intelligence available to me, there is a groundswell of a new spirit of understanding, a robust readiness, and potent enthusiasm on the part of all the stakeholders in Rivers State for an immediate return to democratic governance. This is undoubtedly a welcome development for me and a remarkable achievement for us. I therefore do not see why the state of emergency should exist a day longer than the six months I had pronounced at the beginning of it.
It therefore gives me great pleasure to declare that the emergency in Rivers State of Nigeria shall end with effect from midnight today. The Governor, His Excellency Siminalayi Fubara, the deputy governor, Her Excellency Ngozi Nma Odu, and members of the Rivers State House of Assembly and the speaker, Martins Amaewhule, will resume work in their offices from 18 September 2025.
I take this opportunity to remind the Governors and the Houses of Assembly of all the States of our country to continue to appreciate that it is only in an atmosphere of peace, order, and good government that we can deliver the dividends of democracy to our people. I implore all of you to let this realisation drive your actions at all times.
I thank you all.
Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Federal Republic of Nigeria State House, Abuja September 17, 2025
STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY, BOLA AHMED TINUBU, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, ON THE CESSATION OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN RIVERS STATE
My Fellow countrymen and, in particular, the good people of Rivers State.
I am happy to address you today on the state of emergency declaration in Rivers State. You will recall that on 18th March, 2025, I proclaimed a state of emergency in the state. In my proclamation address, I highlighted the reasons for the declaration. The summary of it for context is that there was a total paralysis of governance in Rivers State, which had led to the Governor of Rivers State and the House of Assembly being unable to work together. Critical economic assets of the State, including oil pipelines, were being vandalised. The State House of Assembly was crisis-ridden, such that members of the House were divided into two groups. Four members worked with the Governor, while 27 members opposed the Governor. The latter group supported the Speaker. As a result, the Governor could not present any Appropriation Bill to the House, to enable him to access funds to run Rivers State's affairs. That serious constitutional impasse brought governance in the State to a standstill. Even the Supreme Court, in one of its judgments in a series of cases filed by the Executive and the Legislative arms of Rivers State against each other, held that there was no government in Rivers State. My intervention and that of other well-meaning Nigerians to resolve the conflict proved abortive as both sides stuck rigidly to their positions to the detriment of peace and development of the State.
It therefore became painfully inevitable that to arrest the drift towards anarchy in Rivers State, I was obligated to invoke the powers conferred on me by Section 305 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, to proclaim the state of emergency. The Offices of the Governor, Deputy Governor, and elected members of the State House of Assembly were suspended for six months in the first instance. The six months expire today, September 17th, 2025.
I thank the National Assembly, which, after critically evaluating the justification for the proclamation, took steps immediately, as required by the Constitution, to approve the declaration in the interest of peace and order in Rivers State. I also thank our traditional rulers and the good people of Rivers State for their support from the date of the declaration of the state of emergency until now.
I am not unaware that there were a few voices of dissent against the proclamation, which led to their instituting over 40 cases in the courts in Abuja, Port Harcourt, and Yenagoa, to invalidate the declaration. That is the way it should be in a democratic setting. Some cases are still pending in the courts as of today. But what needs to be said is that the power to declare a state of emergency is an inbuilt constitutional tool to address situations of actual or threatened breakdown of public order and public safety, which require extraordinary measures to return the State to peace, order and security. Considered objectively, we had reached that situation of total breakdown of public order and public safety in Rivers State, as shown in the judgment of the Supreme Court on the disputes between the Executive and the Legislative arm of Rivers State. It would have been a colossal failure on my part as President not to have made that proclamation.
As a stakeholder in democratic governance, I believe that the need for a harmonious existence and relationship between the executive and the legislature is key to a successful government, whether at the state or national level. The people who voted us into power expect to reap the fruits of democracy. However, that expectation will remain unrealizable in an atmosphere of violence, anarchy, and insecurity borne by misguided political activism and Machiavellian manipulations among the stakeholders.
I don’t know whether you were part of Mr. Peter Obi’s visit to Prof. Isa Ali Pantami last night. Anyway, this is just a reminder that your “Peter” is now in the same category as we are. Back in 2021, you unapologetically labeled everyone supporting Prof. Pantami a terrorist. You went further to call his boss, the late President, a terrorist and even called me one.
Now, your Peter is not only supporting Pantami, but also creating time to visit him at home to discuss strategies.
My question, is your stand still valid? If yes, then kindly update your list to include Mr. Peter Obi, who is now among Prof. Pantami's newest supporters.
Last night, I received a friendly visit from His Excellency Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra State and the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party. We discussed a range of issues, including agriculture, economy, education, artificial intelligence, global statistics, and unity in diversity, among others. My family and I are most appreciative of the visit.
#AI #4IR #Pantami #PeterObi
Last night, I received a friendly visit from His Excellency Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra State and the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party. We discussed a range of issues, including agriculture, economy, education, artificial intelligence, global… pic.twitter.com/IdXOqYSziw
Aliko Dangote (the president of Dangote Industries) is speaking to the media. On his left is his cousin, Sayyu Dantata (the chairman of MRS Holdings) and on his right is Devakumar Edwin (vice president of Dangote Industries). Also with them is Fatima Aliko Dangote (group executive director, commercial operations at Dangote Industries Limited).
Aliko Dangote: Now we will support our government to make sure that we keep creating and generating jobs and we are generating jobs everyday.
That's why sometimes I laugh when, you know, em, em, what do you call them?
Sayyu Dantata: Which one?
Aliko Dangote: Something peng.
Sayyu Dantata: Oh, Nupeng.
Aliko Dangote: I don't even remember their name.
(Everybody laughs)
Aliko Dangote: So Nupeng said that there will be losses of jobs.
Gentlemen of the press, our company did not only buy 4,000 CNG trucks, we bought 10,000; 4,000 tankers, and 6,000 dry cargo.
Because some they carry our fuel, some they carry this. . .because what we are trying to do is that we are trying to modernise this thing.
But you can see how innovative we are, because who is going to lose? Actually, Dangote Refinery will lose because we'll lose a big customer. Dangote Cement used to import 40,000 tons every month of diesel. So now they will stop buying from us, they will now go and be using their gas (CNG).
And like what I keep saying, we are not going to meet the tag. So, as soon as people realise, because those trucks, when they came, the CNG, they didn't cause attention, because the ones that caused attention are the tanks. The tankers are those that actually caused the attention. But those trucks, they came now. We have already launched almost 4,000 and before end of the year the remaining 2,000 will arrive. Because even today we have a ship that brought about 200. Every day they will be arriving because they. . . by end of October all the 4,000 tankers will be here but by end of November we'll have total on the road, I think 10,250 total and today when you go and check our records and it is actually in our own financials of dangote cement.
Dangote cement, even now with the trucks that we have bought, we're only doing 60% of our own cargo. We're not trying to take anybody out of the market.
These trucks we launched, we didn't stop anybody from his work. You are saying that there will be loss of jobs, are our own tankers going to be driven by robots? There are no robotic trucks now. They have trucks that, yes and by the time you take a workshop manager, mechanical, electrical, okay, people who look after tires, people who look at logistics, movement of the trucks, dispatch, back office, every truck is about six people. So this 4,000 trucks they are fighting over it will create 24,000 jobs.
And let me give you also another good news, what we are saying is that our salary is almost three times or four times their own. I mean our own, you know after 5 years free accident nothing a driver can apply since we are driving hazardous you can apply and get a housing loan. Our drivers earn more than graduates. If you look at what they earn in a month, it's almost four times minimum wage! And you say that no don't create jobs.
If you look at it, that's why I said that. . .my people. . .when you got here, I'm sure my people took you around and showed you some of the trucks. And please go and ask anybody. I don't want to tell you but go and ask everybody. It's not every truck that you can load here, you know, with just a spark from the silencer, the whole place can catch fire. But see, some of them when they come, we have to manage because we actually don't have trucks.
And I can show you by the time we load Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, you will see the volume will crash because the trucks are not there.
They are talking about 30,000 tankers is not true. Nobody has 30,000! 30,000 where? How? What do they carry?
So to actually, you know, ask all these things and say no no no, you know what, let's make even life easy. Okay because the question of you joining a union, if you look at the act, I think was section 12 subsection 4 or so, it said that is voluntarily. You have to volunteer to join a unit. Even religion is voluntary now. I can't force you to be a Muslim if you are Christian, you cannot force me to change my religion. I will choose and if I think I'm doing the wrong thing, tomorrow I will decide, I'll move and change to another one. So it is not a question. Nobody will lose any job.
And if they have that issue, any of their driver (because the fight is over driver) any of their drivers who doesn't have a job and he wants to join these people to earn more money. He is welcome.
TV/Movies › Re: Jimmy Kimmel Taken Off Air Over Charlie Kirk Comments by naptu2(op): 4:21am On Sep 18, 2025
