Patients and health care advocates said the abrupt decision to halt U.S. funding for a lifesaving H.I.V. program led to widespread confusion. The backtracking didn’t help. As he does every three months, Sibusiso traveled on Wednesday morning to a clinic in the capital of Eswatini, a tiny southern African nation, to get a refill of the H.I.V. medication he needs to save his life. When he arrived, the door was locked and about 20 other patients stood outside, baffled that the clinic was closed. Sibusiso, 39 and unemployed, had heard rumors that President Trump was pulling funding for the program…
Author: Alade Adisa
Sarkin Yakin Zazzau, Alhaji Rilwan Yahaya Pate, a district head in the Zazzau emirate council of Kaduna State, is dead. NEW DAILY PRIME learnt that Pate, the Sarkin Yakin Zazzau, Pate, who slumped while attending an occasion along with the Emir of Zazzau, Mallam Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli, later died at the Gambo Sawaba General Hospital, Kofar gayan, Zaria. Abdullahi Aliyu Kwarbai, the Media and Publicity officer of the Zazzau confirmed the sad incident in a statement on Thursday night. The statement read, “It is with great sadness that the Zazzau Emirate Council announces the passing of Sarkin Yakin Zazzau Alhaji…
About 5,000 repentant Boko Haram fighters have reunited with their families. Disclosing this at the second-day session of the Lake Chad Basin Governors’ Forum on Thursday, Head of Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (PCVE), Amb. Mairo Musa Abbas stated that none of the former combatants returned to the battleground after six months of the deradicalisation programme. Mairo, who spoke at the Third Penal with the theme, “Managing Boko Haram Exits and Demobilisation of Armed Groups,” said harmonised strategy would help the governors of Lake Chad region to address their common issues. She said deradicalisation, rehabilitation and reintegration programme for ex-Boko…
A most murderous kidnapper, who instilled fear into millions of Nigerians during his three-year reign of terror, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, made a passionate appeal for leniency to the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, stressing that he has repented from his criminal activities. The merciless and most vicious scoundrel, who was known to collect foreign currencies as ransom from his captives, told the court on Thursday, that he has applied to the Lagos State Government for mercy. Evans, who addressed the court through his lawyer, Emefo Etudo, stated this after taking his plea on the amended five…
George gave up alcohol to support his wife of 14 years during her final months. He explains why now, as a single dad, he’s staying sober As I held my wife Imogen’s frail hand – too frail and weak for her 44 years – on her last night of life, I had never been more clear-minded. The weeks leading up to her eventual death from stage four bowel cancer had been the most lucid of my life. As a theatre-director-turned-leadership-coach, I was used to being alert and aware – but this was different. Three months earlier, l had made a choice. When…
Morocco has halted imports of feed grains from Germany following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, the head of Morocco’s grain trade federation (FNCL) said on Thursday. The import suspension affected “all untreated plant-based feed intended for animal consumption from Germany due to the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak there,” Omar Yacoubi told Reuters. A source at Morocco’s food safety agency ONSSA confirmed that plant-based imports from Germany for animal feed had been “suspended” until Germany is declared free of foot and mouth again or certifies local regions that are free of the disease. Germany announced its first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in nearly 40…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, has upheld the proscription of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), as a terrorist organisation. In a unanimous decision by a three-member panel led by Justice Hamma Barka on Thursday, January 30, 2025, the appellate court affirmed the judgement of the Federal High Court in Abuja, which outlawed IPOB. The court held that it found no reason to set aside the order the Federal Government got against the group. According to the court, the government acted lawfully by proscribing the organization whose activities threatend the nation’s security and continued existence. Specifically, Justice Kafafati…
Senator Shehu Sani has attacked ex-governor Nasir El-Rufai, saying he’s a midget professor and frustrated jobless ex-governor seeking attention. Sani’s outburst came on the heels of El-Rufai’s recent criticism of the All Progressives Congress (APC), claiming President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government is pushing to destroy opposition parties. El-Rufai also accused APC of deviating from its founding principles. The ex-senator representing Kaduna Central in a post on his official X handle on Thursday, Sani accused El-rufai of hypocrisy, practising “tyranny” and unleashing evil while the governor of Kaduna. If he is in a Keke Napep, he will call it a Lamborghini;…
The Scottish government is considering free IVF for single women – as a solo mother myself, I think the plans couldn’t come soon enough As I approached 40 without meeting a suitable partner, I realised having a baby on my own using donor sperm might be my only route to motherhood. I also realised very early on that I’d get no help from the NHS. A cursory Google search informed me that over half of NHS England integrated care boards don’t include single women in their IVF policies, and those which do require us to prove infertility first by paying privately for…
Less than twenty four hours after his expulsion from the All Progressives Congress (APC), former governor, Rauf Aregbesola and his supporters have been invited by the Osun State chapter of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) to join the party as the race for the 2026 governorship election in the state gets underway. NNPP extended the invitation to the former minister in a statement by its state chairman, Dr. Tosin Odeyemi, on Wednesday. Aregbesola’s supporters in the Omoluabi Progressives had on Sunday announced their departure from the All Progressives Congress, citing maltreatment within the party. The former Interior Minister commended…
