US shift from soft to hard power towards allies such as Colombia may backfire President Donald Trump threatened tariffs so many times against so many nations before his re-election that some wondered whether he was serious. In the event, his first target was Colombia, a South American oil and coffee exporter. Its harsh treatment last Sunday holds lessons for other nations weighing the consequences of the president’s America First policies. As a leftwing former guerrilla, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro was never going to be a Trump fan. But he incurred the US president’s particular wrath after publicly vowing to turn…
Author: Alade Adisa
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Professor Usman Yusuf. Channels Television disclosed that the Head of Media and Publicity for the Commission, Dele Oyewale, confirmed this in a telephone conversation on Wednesday. Professor Yusuf was arrested by EFCC operatives who raided his residence on Wednesday. Though no reason was given for the arrest, NEW DAILY PRIME learnt that Former President Muhammadu Buhari sacked him after he was indicted by a fact-finding panel set up by the Federal Ministry of Health over alleged mismanagement of N919m. The anti-corruption…
I’m worried that being married to the owner will affect my eligibility to invest via SEIS. My partner and I got engaged over Christmas and we’re excited to begin thinking about setting a date for the wedding. My wife-to-be is an entrepreneur and last year I invested in one of her small businesses through the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS), to help the business grow and for the tax advantages the scheme offers. I plan to make further such investments over the coming years. However, will being married to the owner affect my eligibility to invest via SEIS? Are there…
The Trump Donald administration has put a freeze on federal funding, including $50 million originally earmarked for condom distribution in Gaza. White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt said the expenditure was discovered in Trump’s first week, including by the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by tech billionaire, Elon Musk. Musk’s initiative and the budget office “found that there was about to be 50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza,” Leavitt told her debut press conference. That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money,” she said. She did not provide more details…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said it plans to embark on a nationwide protest against the proposed 50 percent increase in telecom tariffs on Tuesday, February 4. NEW DAILY PRIME gathered that the nationwide demonstration was agreed upon during the National Administrative Council (NAC) meeting of the NLC on Wednesday. According to reports, the protest aims to send a strong message to the government that workers will oppose the planned increase, which would exacerbate poverty throughout the nation. Recall that on January 22, the NLC rejected the 50 per cent increase in telecommunication tariffs that the Federal Government sanctioned…
Stories like mine are rarely told because there’s no happy ending – instead I just feel bitterness and grief when I see a woman with a buggy When I saw this week’s news that the number of single women undergoing IVF or artificial insemination has tripled over the past decade, from 1,400 in 2012 to 4,800 in 2022, I cried in the toilet at work. I knew it would unleash a slew of articles and television interviews with solo mothers explaining their brave decision to have a baby alone, using donor sperm. Over the course of eight years, I spent tens of thousands of…
Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 23023 general elections, Omoyele Sowore, who had been detained detained at the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) detention facility in Abuja since Monday, after refusing to accept the administrative bail conditions granted to him by the police over alleged cybercrime, on Wednesday, pleaded not guilty to the seventeen-count cybercrime charges brought against him by the Police. After honouring a police invitation to the Force Intelligence Headquarters in Abuja over allegations of resisting and obstructing public officers, disobedience to lawful orders, cyber stalking, and actions allegedly aimed at preventing arrests, Sowore was…
Peace continues to elude the leading opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a fight broke out at the party’s headquarters, where a meeting of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) is currently taking place. At present, the crisis-riddled party, being battered with self-inflicted problems for the last four years is holding its BoT meeting at its Wadata House National Headquarters on Wednesday. The violence ensued as Samuel Anyanwu and Sunday Ude-Okoye clashed over the position of National Secretary of the party. Both men laid claim to the position at the ongoing PDP Board of Trustees, BoT, meeting at the party’s…
Even after the presentation of paraphernalia to the new Alaafin of Oyo, there is still tension in the ancient town as kingmakers, better known as the Oyomesi, have instituted legal proceedings against the state governor, Seyi Makinde and others over what they described as the unlawful use of the Oyo State Anti-Corruption Agency (OYACA) to harass and intimidate them, including through threat of arrests. NEW DAILY PRIME reported that the crisis between both parties started when the governor called for a fresh process for the selection of the Alaafin of Oyo, which the majority of kingmakers rejected because they had…
The alleged money laundering case against a former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has been adjourned to 3rd, 24th April, and 6th May, 2024. In her ruling on Wednesday, Justice MaryAnne Anenih of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, adjourned the case for the continuation of the hearing after the first witness, Fabian Nworah, a property developer, was called to testify. At the day’s proceedings, the Prosecution Counsel, Kemi Pinheiro (SAN), informed the court that he had five witnesses to call for the day. However, Justice MaryAnne Anenih said she could only take one witness. Counsel for the…
