Author: Alade Adisa

Former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, has declared that the #EndSARS protest of 2020 was “manufactured” by the ‘Obidient’ movement to stop the presidential ambition of Bola Tinubu. ‘Obidients’ are supporters of Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election. A former governor of Osun State, Akande spoke in an interview with Edmund Obilo, which was posted on YouTube.Chief Akande also claimed that the #EndSARS protest was conceived in and funded from the United States. The former governor said, “EndSARS was aimed and designed to be the end of…

Cases of dementia are rising rapidly among Britain’s ageing population. Protecting against it begins with looking after your heart There are 900,000 currently living with dementia in the UK and that’s predicted to rise to 1.6 million by 2050. Frightening as the figures undoubtedly are, we all have the power to dramatically reduce our risk – and it begins with looking after our hearts.  A landmark new statement released by the American Heart Association warns that three common cardiovascular diseases – heart failure, atrial fibrillation and coronary heart disease – raise the risk of developing dementia, an umbrella term describing a set of…

The Organised Labour has warned state governments and private employers to implement the new national minimum wage of ₦70,000, along with the consequential salary adjustments, by the end of the first quarter of 2025 or face serious consequences. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said it is unacceptable for some states and organisations, who know the current realities of the Nigerian economy to insist on paying peanuts to workers, knowing fully well that the wage cannot take workers home. The President of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Comrade Mohammed Ibrahim, who is also the National Internal Auditor of…

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…

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…