Author: Alade Adisa

…Real Madrid icon claims award has lost all ‘credibility’ after Vinicius Junior’s 2024 snub Cristiano Ronaldo admits to being left feeling “angry” over some of his Ballon d’Or defeats to eternal rival, Lionel Messi. *Portuguese icon won Golden Ball in 2008*Has taken his tally to five*Argentine rival has eight triumphs on his CV *WHAT HAPPENED? Portuguese superstar Ronaldo was the first of that pair to claim a Golden Ball in 2008. He then saw Messi enjoy a run of four successive triumphs, before emerging victorious in four out of five years between 2013 and 2017. *THE BIGGER PICTURE Ronaldo has…

By Michael Damilola The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council. As part of the order signed by Trump on Tuesday, the United States will also withdraw from the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The U.S. was UNRWA’s largest donor, contributing nearly $500 million annually. Additionally, the president has directed a review of American involvement in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). “I have always believed that the UN has tremendous potential,…

Researchers have discovered that microplastics are increasingly accumulating in human brains, surging by 50% in just eight years. This raises serious concerns about potential links to cognitive decline and neurological diseases. The study also highlights that the brains of individuals with dementia had five times more microplastics, emphasizing the urgent need to reduce plastic contamination. Microplastics have infiltrated every nook and cranny of our environment, however, the tiny plastic particles, some of them way thinner than a hair, are also accumulating in our brains at alarming levels, much more than any other body organ. It seems the plastic concentration in…

Gunmen abducted about 10 passengers along the Owo-Benin highway in Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State on Tuesday. According to reports, the gunmen attacked the commercial bus the passengers were travelling in and marched them into the bush. NEW DAILY PRIME gathered that the passengers were on their way from Akwa Ibom to Akure when the incident happened. An eyewitness, who craved anonymity, disclosed that the driver of the space bus had initially thought that the gunmen were security operatives but only realised that they were criminals when they shot sporadically into the air. The source said, ”The passengers…

Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, has donated N100 million to victims of the recent tanker explosion in Niger State. She announced the donation during a visit to Governor Umaru Bago at the Government House in Minna on Tuesday, where she expressed her condolences over the tragic incident. NEW DAILY PRIME recalls that the explosion, which occurred on January 18 along Diko-Maje Road in Gurara Local Government Area, claimed several lives and left many others injured. Mrs Tinubu said the donation would provide relief to about 70 affected families, with each receiving N1 million through the governor’s wife, Hajiya Fatima Bago.…

Suspended Olorile of Orile-Ifo, Ogun State, Oba Abdulsemiu Ogunjobi has been charged to court by the Nigeria Police Force for assaulting and dehumanising an elderly man, Areola Abraham. Confirming the development in a statement issued on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, Muyiwa Adejobi, Force Public Relations Officer (PRO) said, “The Kabiyesi Abdulsemiu Ogunjobi, who assaulted one elderly man in a viral video, in Ifo Ogun State, has been charged to court today 4th February 2025, on a three-count charge of conspiracy, assault and conduct likely to cause breach of peace. “He was granted bail while the case was adjourned to 06/03/2025.…

A Nigerian woman was arrested in the United Kingdom after using the word “drugs” instead of “medication,” which led to confusion and her eventual detention by authorities. The lady identified as @shakels95, shared her shocking experience of being arrested due to a simple misunderstanding of Nigerian jargon. According to her, she had gone to a pharmacy to purchase medications for her husband when an innocent remark during a phone conversation led to her unexpected arrest. While speaking to her husband on the phone, she casually used the word “drugs” instead of “medications,” unaware that people around her at the pharmacy…

Edmund O’Sullivan had been released just 10 days prior to the incident following the stabbing of another woman in her apartment A man who raped, stabbed and beat a stranger after climbing in her bedroom window as she slept had been released from prison just 10 days before the incident. Edmund O’Sullivan (32) was jailed on Tuesday for 15 years with a post release supervision order of eight years after Mr Justice Paul McDermott said “the overall supervision of this man must be closely monitored.” O’Sullivan had been released 10 days earlier from a three-year sentence with the final six…

Rape Crisis Ireland says case of Shane Flynn is ‘wake-up call’ on gaps in regulations for ‘predatory’ sex offenders A personal trainer who operated a Midlands gym and rehabilitation centre, where he sexually assaulted a woman and secretly recorded dozens of others, will be able to resume the same work on release from prison despite being on the sex offenders register. Rape Crisis Ireland (RCI) believes this represents a failure in how the sex offenders register operates. Its executive director, Dr Clíona Saidléar, said the limitations of the register and a lack of regulation meant Shane Flynn (35) could resume…

The National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, is on warpath with a prominent female Northern activist, Hajia Naja’atu Muhammad over claims she made in a recent TikTok video that has gone vira, and has demanded public apology and retraction from her. The woman activist had in the video, accused the NSA of hypocrisy with claims that he is now in cahoot with President Bola Tinubu and others he had accused of being among the most corrupt Nigerians when he was the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). But Ribadu, in a letter through his lawyer, Dr…