Author: Prima News

The Senate Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, in partnership with the National Emergency Management Agency, has distributed multimillion-naira relief materials to thousands of rainstorm victims in Ekiti Central Senatorial District of Ekiti State. The beneficiaries were mostly residents whose buildings were destroyed by the stormy rain that hit several communities in the senatorial district on February 11, 2026, leaving hundreds homeless. The gesture covered victims from Irepodun/Irepodun, Ado, Efon, and Ijero local government areas in Ekiti Central Senatorial District. Bamidele, who represents the district in the National Assembly, spoke while distributing the materials to beneficiaries at Ijero Ekiti and other locations…

We will prescribe it, preach it, teach it, and then go home and do the complete opposite. There is an unspoken agreement in healthcare that nobody talks about. We will tell you everything you need to do to live well, and then we will quietly go about living like regular, flawed, tired, caffeine-dependent human beings. We have heard every lecture, read every journal, passed every exam, and we still do exactly what you do when nobody is looking. Sometimes when everybody is looking. I am a public health professional surrounded by doctors, nurses and every kind of healthcare worker imaginable,…

African Heads of State and Government formally launched the Africa Infrastructure Financing Facility, a continent-led platform designed to accelerate the preparation and financing of priority cross-border infrastructure projects aligned with Agenda 2063. The launch took place during the Third Presidential High-Level Dialogue of the Alliance of African Multilateral Financial Institutions, held on the sidelines of the 39th African Union Summit under the theme ‘Strengthening Africa’s Financial Architecture to Finance Agenda 2063’. The President of the Republic of Ghana, John Mahama, African Union Champion on AU Financial Institutions, said the continent has domestic capital pools exceeding $2.5tn. “The challenge is not…

President Tinubu’s Executive Order has halted N2.1tn NNPC deductions and sparked oil sector debate. NewsOnline Nigeria reports that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s executive order stopping the deduction of management fees and the Frontier Exploration Fund by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) has effectively cut off revenue streams that generated about N2.076tn over four years. An analysis of monthly earnings submitted to the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) shows that NNPC retained N20.739bn in 2022, N695.9bn in 2023, N452.6bn in 2024, and N906.91bn in 2025 from the deductions — bringing the total to approximately N2.1tn between 2022 and 2025.…

Lafarge Africa Plc reported a record financial performance for the year ended December 31, 2025 with revenue crossing the ₦1 trillion mark for the first time and profit before tax rising 170 percent year-on-year to ₦411.32 billion. The cement manufacturer recorded net sales of ₦1.07 trillion in 2025, representing a 53 percent increase from ₦696.76 billion posted in 2024. Management attributed the growth to higher sales volumes, improved plant stability, and enhanced distribution efficiency across its operations. Operating Performance Operating profit rose 103 percent to ₦392.10 billion from ₦193.01 billion recorded in the previous year, reflecting strong revenue expansion and…

Tragedy struck Ibelebiri in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Wednesday afternoon when a fuel tanker collided with a tricycle, popularly known as Keke Napep, killing the driver and four children. The crash, which occurred along the Ibelebiri stretch of the Yenegwe–Okarki–Otuasega road, plunged the predominantly farming and fishing community into mourning. Eyewitnesses said the victims were returning from school when the tanker, suspected to have suffered brake failure, skidded off the road and crushed the tricycle. The children were pupils of a school in Otuasega Community, and the tricycle driver was a family member who regularly transported…

Russia is allegedly holding nearly 1,800 people as political prisoners, 16 European countries informed the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on Thursday. In a statement on human rights in Russia and on the 2nd commemoration of Alexei Navalny’s death, the group condemned “continued repression” in Russia and called for the release of political captives. The nations are Australia, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom. Czechia’s Permanent Representative to the OSCE, Jan Marian, expressed their collective condolences to Navalny’s family, adding that “Russian…

Team Edo have emerged overall winners of the second edition of the Niger Delta Games after a brilliant performance on home soil in Benin City, ending a 24-year wait for regional glory. The hosts secured first place after a tight medal contest that lasted until the final day. Edo finished with 52 gold, 34 silver and 25 bronze medals, making a total of 111 medals. They pulled ahead of strong rivals Delta and Bayelsa to seal a famous victory in front of their supporters. Delta State finished second with 39 gold, 29 silver and 34 bronze medals, recording 102 medals…

Veteran Nigerian filmmaker Tunde Kelani has condemned the unauthorised creation of short clips from films, describing the trend as piracy and intellectual property abuse. Kelani, popularly known as TK, voiced his concerns in a Facebook post on Wednesday, reacting to the growing practice of bloggers and social media users who extract scenes from his movies and circulate them online without his permission. “This is WRONG! Cutting our films — Saworoide, Agogo Eewo, Ti Oluwa Nile, Thunderbolt: Magun — into unauthorised reels and posting them online is not promotion. It is piracy and the destruction of our cultural work,” he wrote.…

In a new report on the underground global scourge that conservative estimates say generates up to $18 billion in illicit profits annually, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) highlighted that all regions of the world have been drawn in, although little data is available outside Europe. Globally, legal waste management was worth $1.2 trillion in 2024, up from $410 billion in 2011. “This is not an abstract challenge, but one with severe consequences for public health, as it drives toxic pollution of drinking water, the ocean, soil and more,” said Candice Welsch, Director of Policy Analysis and Public Affairs at…