Author: Alade Adisa

The State Department has terminated a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) initiative that has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to help restore Ukraine’s energy grid from attacks by the Russian military, according to two USAID officials working on the agency’s Ukraine mission. Power outages have been applied overnight in some regions of Ukraine due to the attacks on energy facilities. The country’s systems have sustained near-constant impact throughout the course of the three-year war. “It significantly undercuts this administration’s abilities to negotiate on the ceasefire, and it’d signal to Russia that we don’t care about Ukraine or our…

Woman in the eye of the storm, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has told wife of Senate President, Mrs. Unoma Akpabio to stay out of the allegations of sexual harassment and intimidation against her husband, Godswill Akpabio. The Senator representing Kogi Central got enmeshed in a dispute with Akpabio began after she refused to sit in a designated seat during a Senate session, citing Order 10 of the Senate Standing Rules. Therefrom, all hell broke loose when the PDP senator, appearing on Arise News on Friday, accused the senate foremost figure of blocking her motions, maligning her, and intimidating her after she…

Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey after a landmark call by the jailed PKK leader, Abdullah Öcalan, asking the group to disband. It was the first reaction from the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) after Öcalan this week called for the dissolution of the group and asked it to lay down arms after fighting the Turkish state for more than four decades. “In order to pave the way for the implementation of leader Apo’s call for peace and democratic society, we are declaring a ceasefire effective from today,” the PKK executive committee said, referring to Öcalan and…

Russia has praised United States President, Donald Trump, after his Friday meeting with Ukraine President, Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington. Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova after the parley noted that Trump showed “restraint” by not hitting Zelensky during their shouting match in the White House. NEW DAILY PRIME had earlier reported that President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky openly argued in the White House on Friday, February 28, as they clashed on the need for compromising with what the Ukrainian president called Russia’s “killer” leader. Trump berated Zelensky as they sat in the Oval Office, telling him…

An Abia State High Court in Obehie, Ukwa West LGA, has halted the enforcement of the alleged suspension of former Senate President and Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) BoT Chairman, Senator Adolphus Wabara. Presiding over the court, Justice LTC Eruba, in an order, restrained Elder Abraham Amah, who is laying claim to the Abia State chairmanship of the PDP, from enforcing the said suspension. The former Senate president had in a suit marked HUK/8/2025, dragged Amah to the court, seeking the order of the court to restrain the defendant from enforcing the purported suspension. Granting the prayers of the Claimant, the…

The minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has ridiculed former vice president Atiku Abubakar, and Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum (PDPGF) Chairman, Bala Mohammed following the Supreme Court ruling that went against the Rivers State government. The minister questioned whether Atiku and Mohammed would continue to praise Rivers State Governor Sim Fubara for disregarding court orders, as they had previously done, now that the Supreme Court had intervened. In a ruling delivered by Justice Emmanuel Akomaye Agim on Friday, the Supreme Court ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Accountant General of the Federation to…

The speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mojisola Meranda has stated that the full complement of her security had yet to be restored. Speaking on Friday after a court hearing of a suit filed by Obasa to challenge his removal at the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja, Meranda said, “I have my people and God with me. Three or four policemen are also with me. Whereas, in my normal convoy, my team comprises two policemen, four DSS, and two anti-bomb operatives. But I don’t have that with me this morning.” When a reporter asked Meranda, “Can you respond…

The wife of the Senate President, Unoma Akpabio, has dragged Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan to the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, over alleged defamation and violation of fundamental human rights. The Senate president, Godswill Akpabio’s wife instituted the legal action following recent claims by Akpoti-Uduaghan, who represents Kogi Central, that her troubles in the Senate started following her refusal to have a sexual relationship with her husband. Mrs Akpabio, in the first suit on fundamental rights violation (Suit No: CV/814/25), accused the senator of making false and scandalous statements that caused emotional trauma for her and her children, leaving them…

The UK’s International Development Minister, Anneliese Dodds, has quit her post over Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s decision to slash the international aid budget by almost half to pay for an increase in defence spending. She warned that it could enable Russia and China to further their global influence. The senior Labour MP, who attended cabinet, predicted that the UK pulling back from development would bolster Moscow, which has already been aggressively increasing its presence worldwide, as well as encourage Beijing’s attempts to rewrite global rules. Her departure, just hours after Starmer returned from a widely lauded trip to Washington for…

Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has fined Real Madrid after some of their fans directed homophobic chants towards Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola. The Spanish side have been ordered to pay 30,000 euros (£24,800) by European football’s governing body. Real have also been given a suspended partial stadium closure and must shut off at least 500 adjacent seats during their next European match at the Bernabeu. However, the partial closure has been suspended for two years. The chanting occurred in Real Madrid’s 3-1 win over Guardiola’s City in the second leg of their Champions League play-off at the Bernabeu…