Author: Alade Adisa

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…

US President Donald Trump has appointed Secretary of StateMarco Rubio as acting administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), confirming the State Department’s de facto takeover of the humanitarian agency. The news came hours after American tech billionaire, Elon Musk charged with overhauling the federal government, said President Trump had signed off on shutting the agency down. However, Democrats say that it is not legal for the president to shutter a federal agency without consulting Congress. The US State Department shared a post on X, stating that a review of USAID foreign assistance activities is underway, with the…

Normal caffeinated coffee has reams of health benefits. So is there any reason to go decaf? It’s a kick-start for the day, a jolt many of us need to power through, and one of the last socially acceptable addictions. It’s only when we have to go without coffee that we realise how badly we rely on it. The jitteriness and headaches from caffeine withdrawal can be so overpowering that many of us turn to decaffeinated instead, thinking surely it must be better for our health. But that might not be true, the experts say – not least because decaf coffee is not…

Donald Trump is making good on his threats. Giving Elon Musk plenipotentiary powers, driving a cyber truck through the US constitution, threatening allies with economic war, blaming DEI for the country’s worst air crash in years and obliterating America’s aid agency are just a sample of moves in his opening fortnight. Trump is burning America’s rule book. If he carries on like this, Democrats will have no choice but to send him a strongly worded letter. To claim that America’s minority party is too punch drunk to get its act together would be charitable. None of Trump’s moves should come…

By Alade Adisa The committee set up by the Kaduna State House of Assembly to probe the administration of former Governor Nasir el-Rufai has recommended an investigation and possible prosecution of the former governor over alleged ₦423 billion fraud. According to the committee’s report, sighted by New Daily Prime, it also recommended an investigation and possible prosecution of all Commissioners for Finance who served during el-Rufai’s eight-year tenure as governor. Other individuals recommended for investigation and possible prosecution include those who served as Chairmen of the Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service (KADIRS) from 2015 to 2023, as well as Muyiwa…