Author: Alade Adisa

The Rivers State House of Assembly on Friday, suspended its sittings indefinitely following a plenary session presided over by the Speaker, Martin Amaewhule at the assembly complex in Port Harcourt. This development comes shortly after the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara officially informed the Speaker of his intention to re-present the 2025 budget for legislative consideration and approval. The governor, had, in a letter dated March 13, 2025, and addressed to Amaewhule, proposed March 19 as the fresh date for the budget presentation or any other date within the month that the Assembly finds suitable. Noting that his decision aligns with…

·Myles Lewis-Skelly, Dan Burn, Jarell Quansah selected·No place for Grealish, Gibbs-White or Gallagher Thomas Tuchel has named Marcus Rashford in his first England squad, bringing the Aston Villa forward in from the international wilderness to complete a stunning turnaround in his fortunes. There is also a surprise return for Jordan Henderson, who is at Ajax and last played for England in November 2023, and Tuchel has given first call-ups to Dan Burn and Myles Lewis-Skelly. Jarell Quansah, Reece James and Kyle Walker are also included along with Rashford’s Villa teammates Morgan Rogers and Ezri Konsa. England squad: Notable absentees are…

Vladimir Putin has praised Donald Trump for “doing everything” to improve relations between Moscow and Washington, after Trump said the US has had “very good and productive discussions” with Putin in recent days. Putin told a meeting of his security chiefs that improved relations with the US were now on the agenda. “We know that the new administration headed by President Trump is doing everything to restore at least something of what was basically destroyed by the previous US administration,” he said. Putin also responded to an appeal by Trump to save the lives of “thousands” of surrounded Ukrainian soldiers,…

Mark Carney has been sworn in as Canada’s prime minister, succeeding Justin Trudeau, as the country faces questions about its sovereignty from US President Donald Trump and a trade war with Canada’s largest trading partner, the United States. Carney, a former central banker who has never held public office in Canada, is stepping in to confront numerous challenges facing the country, including leading the Liberal Party into an election to be held later this year. In a press conference after his swearing in, Carney addressed Canada’s growing tensions with its southern neighbor head-on, saying: “We will never, ever, in any…

Niger Republic has approached Nigeria to bail it out of a severe fuel scarcity crisis that has almost brought the country to a standstill. It was gathered that Niger had quietly sent a delegation to Abuja, appealing for an emergency fuel supply. According to reports, Niger has been grappling with a crippling fuel shortage for weeks, leading to long queues at petrol stations, skyrocketing black-market prices, and widespread economic disruption. A manager of a petrol station on the capital’s outskirts, Mohammed said, “Our tanks have been dry for three days. No-one can say when we’ll be resupplied.” “You see that…

President Donald Trump has said the US had “very good and productive discussions” with Vladimir Putin and that “thousands of Ukrainian troops” were surrounded by the Russian army, a claim refuted by the Ukrainian military and independent analysts. In a post on Truth Social on Friday, Trump said there was a “very good chance” the war between Russia and Ukraine could “finally come to an end.” The US president made his comments after Steve Witkoff, Trump’s close ally and special envoy to the Middle East, held late-night talks with Putin on Thursday to discuss the US proposal for an immediate…

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has stopped the reinstatement of Muhammadu Sanusi II as the 16th Emir of Kano. This comes as the appelate court halted the enforcement of its January 10 judgment, which upheld the Kano State government’s repeal of the 2019 Emirates Council Law, pending the Supreme Court’s determination of an appeal on the same matter. The ruling was delivered on Friday by a three-member panel led by Justice Okon Abang. The court granted a stay of execution, effectively maintaining the status quo in the ongoing legal tussle over the Kano Emirate dispute. The appellate court…

Following the immigration crackdown that led to the deportation of 40 Nigerians from Algeria, other undocumented Nigerians in the north African country have gone into hiding. According to reports, the deported Nigerians were hammered for overstaying and illegal documents. An official bulletin dated February 4, 2025, and sighted by NEW DAILY PRIME disclosed that the deportees, consisting of 37 men and three women, arrived in Abuja on February 4, 2025, at 8.10 pm via Turkish Airlines flight TK623. One official said Nigerians in Algeria “are in hiding to avoid being arrested and deported.” NEW DAILY PRIME learnt that some of…

Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has written to the state House of Assembly again, informing the lawmakers of his intention to re-present the 2025 budget to the House for consideration and approval on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. The governor, in a letter addressed to the Speaker of the Assembly, Rt. Hon. Martin Amaewhule, recalled his earlier attempt to present the budget on March 12, which was unsuccessful after he was disallowed from entering into the Assembly premises. Fubara noted that despite prior delivery of a soft copy notice and efforts to submit a hard copy through the clerk, he…

Senior diplomats from Iran, Russia and China gathered in Beijing on Friday for talks on Tehran’s nuclear issues, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported, days after Tehran rejected U.S. “orders” to resume dialogue over the Iranian nuclear programme. In 2015, Iran reached a deal with the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany and agreed to curb its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions. But in 2018, Donald Trump, a year into his first term as U.S. president, pulled out of the pact. Last week, Trump said he had sent a letter to Iranian Supreme leader…