Author: Elizabeth Jenrola Oso

In a show of appreciation, the Federal Government on Thursday donated N30 million to the family of the designer of Nigeria’s national flag, late Taiwo Akinkunmi. The Director General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Lanre Issa-Onilu, along with the Oyo State Director of the agency, Olukemi Afolayan presented the donation to the family at his residence in Elebu, Ibadan, on Thursday. Issa-Onilu clarified that the N30 million donation was not intended to compensate for the late Akinkunmi’s services but to support his family in recognition of his monumental contributions to Nigeria. “I am aware, even though I wasn’t appointed…

Fresh from being granted a N10 million bail over a case of alleged cybercrimes, former presidential candidate of African Action Congress (AAC) and activist, Omoyele Sowore, was on Thursday spotted among protesters at the front of the Federal High Court in Abuja. According to the placards they were bearing, the protesters were demanding for the exit of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun. NEW DAILY PRIME reports that Justice Musa Suleiman Liman of the Federal High Court in Abuja granted Sowore bail in the amount of N10 million with one surety of the same amount. The publisher of…

Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Meta, formerly called Facebook and X has agreed to pay $25 million in settlement of a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump challenging the suspension of his (Trump) Facebook and X accounts. Meta and X (then called Twitter) both banned Trump from both platforms following the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Protesters had turned out in support of Trump at the US Capitol, to overturn former President Joe Biden’s victory in the elections. Meta banned him for at least two years, citing his posts as a catalyst for violence and a threat to public safety.…

Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have killed five people in the Ajegunle-powerline community, Akure North LGA of Ondo State. According to an eyewitness and a member of the community, Akin Olowolafe, the suspected herders attacked a farm in the community with guns. Olowolafe identified the victims of the attack as farm labourers hired from Plateau and Kaduna states, saying, “The incident happened around 3pm on Tuesday. They shot sporadically, killing five of our workers. This is how they usually come to disturb and destroy our crops. “On several occasions, we’ve reported them to the state government and even to security…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has expressed sadness over the death of at least 18 persons in an air accident in Washington DC, United States.President Tinubu, in a statement on Thursday, said he is deeply saddened by the incident which occurred in Washington D.C. Intel Region that a tragic mid-air collision that occurred near Washington, D.C., involving an American Airlines commercial jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter, left 67 people unaccounted for. The American Eagle Flight 5342, carrying 60 passengers and four crew members, was approaching Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night when it collided with the…

A man has killed his teenage daughter after she uploaded what he considered to be inappropriate videos on the social media app, TikTok in Pakistan. Local police chief, Babar Baloch, said on Thursday that the man, said to be in his 50s, recently brought his family back from the U.S. to settle in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, Baloch said the now-detained man confessed to having shot his daughter earlier this week after she refused to dress more modestly and stop uploading what the family considered to be “indecent” videos on TikTok, Police are treating the incident as a…

A tragic and unexpected mid-air collision occurred Wednesday over Washington, D.C., involving an American Airlines commercial jet and a U.S. military Black Hawk helicopter. The crash has triggered an immediate response from aviation and defense authorities, as emergency crews work to assess the damage, search for survivors, and determine what led to this devastating incident. What is Known So Far According to early reports, the American Airlines aircraft was operating a scheduled domestic flight, while the Black Hawk helicopter was believed to be conducting a training or reconnaissance mission. The collision occurred in restricted airspace over Washington, D.C., an area…

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has directed all civil and public servants in the state to wear native attires with a touch of traditional ‘Aso Oke’ every Thursday, in addition to the existing native Friday tradition. The announcement of the approval of the new dress code was contained in a circular issued by the Office of the Head of Service to heads of ministries and agencies on January 27, 2025. The directive stated, “Every Thursday and Friday, our workforce will become ambassadors of tradition and catalysts for economic transformation.” According to the circular, the policy “is not just about…

President Donald Trump’s administration pulled back a proposed spending freeze that threatened to disrupt hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to U.S. programmes, a White House official said on Wednesday. The first major domestic policy reversal of the Republican president’s new term came after one federal judge had temporarily blocked the freeze and before another judge was due to hear a separate legal challenge. The proposal had thrown the federal government into chaos and disrupted payments to medical and child-care providers. It says the test flight over the Mojave Desert marked the first time any privately funded plane has…

A small aircraft carrying oil workers crashed in South Sudan’s Unity State, killing 20 people on Wednesday, a state official has confirmed. The plane went down at the Unity oilfield airport while en route to the capital, Juba, according to Unity State’s Information Minister, Gatwech Bipal. Bipal stated that the passengers were employees of the Greater Pioneer Operating Company (GPOC), a consortium that includes China National Petroleum Corporation and state-owned Nile Petroleum Corporation. Among the casualties were two Chinese nationals and one Indian. Initially, media reports placed the death toll at 18, but Bipal later confirmed that two survivors had…