Author: Alade Adisa

‘…And it cannot keep going on like this’ Club legend, Gary Neville believes Manchester United have become worse under Ruben Amorim and warned the Portuguese: “It can’t keep going on like this.” Sunday’s 2-0 home defeat to Crystal Palace put Amorim’s United back to square one after three straight wins over Rangers, Fulham and Steaua Bucharest. It was the 39-year-old’s fifth league defeat in seven matches at Old Trafford since taking over – the quickest any Manchester United manager has reached that number of home top-flight losses in Premier League history. And Neville believes the pain is only going to…

Members of the Oyo State House of Assembly have proposed the adoption of paternity leave for male workers in the state’s public and private sectors, to enhance family bond and provision of additional care for the newborn and their spouses by men. The lawmaker representing Oyo East/West State Constituency, Hon. Olorunpoto Rahman, who moved the motion, explained that a newborn relies on the strong bond with caregivers, especially parents who influence their emotion, social and cognitive growth. Rahman also argued at the plenary presided over by the Deputy Speaker of the House, Hon. Abiodun Fadeyi, that introducing paternity leave in…

UK house prices surged in January, as buyers rushed to snap up properties ahead of the stamp duty increases being implemented from 1 April 2025 onwards. The January UK Halifax House Price Index was released on Friday, with the average property price surging to a new record high of £299,138 (€358,822) last month. House prices inched up 0.7% in January, compared to a fall of 0.2% in December. On an annual basis, prices rose 3% in January 2025, compared to 3.4% in the same month last year. This was mainly driven by more buyers trying to complete house purchases ahead…

A former governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, are among the first high-ranking members scheduled to appear before the party’s Disciplinary Committee. Disclosing this In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday, the party’s Chairman, Tom Ikimi said the party’s disciplinary committee had relocated from the PDP national secretariat in Wuse and now operates from Legacy House, a party-owned facility in Maitama, Abuja. According to Ikimi: “The National Disciplinary Committee of the Peoples Democratic party met on Wednesday, 5th February 2025 at the Legacy House, Maitama, Abuja in line with…

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has accused South Africa of “anti-Americanism” and refused to attend a G20 meeting in Johannesburg later this month, as diplomatic ties sour between the two countries under Donald Trump’s administration. Rubio made the announcement on X, where he repeated the US president’s unfounded claim that South Africa was expropriating private property. “South Africa is doing very bad things. Expropriating private property. Using G20 to promote ‘solidarity, equality, & sustainability.’ In other words: DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) and climate change,” Rubio said in a post on X. “My job is to advance America’s…

Forces from Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region have captured swathes of territory from Islamic State during a weeks-long offensive they hope will draw increased international support, according to officials and Reuters reporters. The advances come against an IS faction that has gained in importance and was the target last week of the first air strikes of U.S. President Donald Trump’s new administration. Before those strikes, Reuters reporters who gained rare access to the village of Balidhidin, which IS controlled for a decade, saw Puntland security forces patrolling and residents circulating on foot near the carcasses of army trucks destroyed in recent fighting. The village is…

The Bank of England’s predictions follow its decision on Thursday to cut its main interest rate for the third time in six months. The bank now predicts that the British economy will only grow by 0.75% this year, down from its previous forecast of 1.5% just three months ago. In a statement, the bank’s nine-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) lowered its main interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 4.50%, taking it to its lowest level since mid-2023. That decision was widely expected by the financial markets. What wasn’t expected was the scale of the growth downgrade…

Judge issues temporary order restricting access by ‘Doge’ to multitrillion-dollar system Elon Musk’s crusade to slash US government spending suffered setbacks on Thursday after a federal judge barred the Treasury department from handing data from its payments system to outsiders and one of the billionaire’s staffers was forced to resign over racist social media posts. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly put the temporary order in place after Musk boasted that his team at the “Department of Government Efficiency” (Doge) was “rapidly shutting down” Treasury remittances. They apparently gained access to the system that disburses trillions of dollars, including social security payments and…

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employees and contractors are contemplating potential lawsuits targeting the unprecedented attack on the federal agency by President Donald Trump’s administration, according to four sources familiar with the talks. As a matter of fact, some federal workers associations in the United States have asked a federal high court in Washington to stop the Trump administration from shutting down the agency. The lawsuit was filed by the American Foreign Service Association and the American Federation of Government Employees. The workers hinge their suit on the argument that USAID is a creation of Congress, which the executive…

The kidnappers responsible for the abduction and murder of Hon. Justice Azuka after collecting a ₦100 million ransom has been arrested. This was revealed in a viral post by an X, formerly known as Twitter user, Olaudah Equiano. NEW DAILY PRIME reported that the lawmaker representing Onitsha North state constituency was kidnapped on December 26, 2024, and later killed despite the ransom payment. He was reportedly shot twice in the head. Reports said that it was one of the culprits that led law enforcement agents to the dump site of the corpse of the late legislator. Further details indicate that…