A detailed medical report has emerged alleging that Nollywood actress Regina Daniels, wife of Senator Ned Nwoko, has been battling severe substance abuse involving cocaine, marijuana, alcohol and other hard drugs. The report, issued by Serenity Royale Hospital in Abuja and signed by its Managing Director/Head of Clinical Services, Dr. Adekunle Adesina, covers her detoxification…
President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima undertook 41 trips across 23 countries in their first 17 months in office, spending 180 days, equivalent to six months, on foreign engagements. Analysis shows that Tinubu, with the longer mileage, logged over 124 days abroad, visiting 16 countries on 29 trips. So far, the President has…
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election, has asked President Bola Tinubu to immediately return home to confront rising insecurity. On April 2, Tinubu departed for France on a two-week “working visit”. A statement from the presidency said during his stay in France, Tinubu “will appraise his administration’s midterm…
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has directed deposit money banks (DMBs) to stop deducting charges for unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) transactions directly from customers’ accounts. The charges will now be deducted from users’ mobile airtime, according to an email from the United Bank for Africa (UBA) to customers on Tuesday. The UBA said the…
The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Wale Edun, on Wednesday announced that Nigeria is seeking to raise nearly N150bn to fund vaccine procurement for 2025 and 2026. Edun revealed this at the 2025 Joint Annual Review of the Health Sector, themed “All Hands, One Mission: Bringing the Nigerian Health Sector to…
In a sweeping foreign policy overhaul, the United States has dissolved the Agency for International Development (USAID), ending over six decades of global development work. Marco Rubio, US secretary of state, announced the decision in a statement on July 1. USAID was founded in 1961 under the late President John Kennedy and has long been…
Tragedy on Saturday struck as 20 members of the Kano contingent died in a fatal auto crash while returning from the just concluded National Sports Festival (NSF) in Ogun State. It was gathered that the vehicle conveying the contingents was involved in the crash in Dakatsalle town, 50 kilometres into the ancient city of Kano….
Tragedy struck the social media as 21-year-old Jennifer Nicole Rivas, a rising TV presenter and TikTok star, passed away unexpectedly. Rivas, a journalism student, worked as a presenter on Honduran channel CHTV and had amassed a strong online following, with 100,000 TikTok followers and 16,000 Instagram fans. She was also a popular comedy actress, collaborating…
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and its affiliate unions from the education sector on Monday declared ‘ no pay, no work’, in response to the Federal Government declaration of ‘no work, no pay’ policy as a result of the ongoing two weeks warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. The NLC alongside…
Osun State Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi, yesterday, hinted that the state government had been expending a sum of N32 million daily on ‘O Meal feeding programme for pupils in public schools. He also disclosed that arrangement had been concluded by Governor Ademola Adeleke’s administration, through the Ministries of Education, Economic Planning,…