The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Adekunle Salako, has reassured Nigerians not to panic over the human metapneumovirus (HMPV) as it is not a novel virus, urging the public to prioritize hygiene, especially during the current season linked to the virus.   Salako emphasized that HMPV has been identified in Nigeria as a cause of lower respiratory …

Actor Jerry Amilo has slammed a certain married woman who walked out of her marriage of 18 years because she caught her husband che@ting but is now sleeping with married men.   Amilo who did not mention any name, wondered why the woman who has three children, walked out of her marriage because of her husband’s cheating habit but is …

Tech entrepreneur, Charles Awuzie has asked why Africans would rather choose to divorce than embrace polygamy.   He also asked why it’s more acceptable to divorce than accept a child born out of infidelity.    “Why are Africans hating their ancestral practice of polygamy but they are embracing the western culture of divorce? Why is it becoming more acceptable to …

Former Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, says the cabals around President Bola Tinubu are more ambitious than those that were around former President Muhammadu Buhari.   While speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, January 7, Dalung, who served under Buhari’s government, shared insights into the power dynamics he observed during his tenure. He likened Buhari’s situation …

England’s men’s players have the “power” to make their own stand and refuse to play Afghanistan in the Champions Trophy, according to Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) met with Antoniazzi on Tuesday after she sent a cross-party letter to the governing body, signed by nearly 200 UK politicians, which called on the ECB to …

  US President-elect, Donald Trump did not rule out using the military to wrest control of the Panama Canal and Greenland during remarks to the press on Tuesday, January 7, 2025.   When asked directly whether he would rule out using “military or economic coercion” to see through his goal of gaining those territories, the president-elect responded, “No.”   “No, …

  Super Falcons goalkeeper Yewande Balogun has quit professional football. The goalkeeper was part of the Super Falcons squad for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Balogun made one appearance for the nine-time African champions.   Balogun took to her Instagram page on Tuesday to announce her retirement from the round leather game. “Maybe it’s …

US President-elect, Donald Trump has repeated his warnings that all hell will break loose in the Middle East if hostages kidnapped by Hamas in the Gaza Strip are not released before his inauguration on January 20.    “It will not be good for Hamas, and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone,” Trump said during a press conference at his …

Justice K. B. Olawoyin of the Oyo State High Court has fixed Tuesday, January 13, 2025, to deliver his ruling on the bail application filed by Olori Naomi Silekunola, Alhaji Oriyomi Hazmat and Abdulahi Fasasi.   The trio were arrested and remanded in prison custody in December 2024 over the stampede that claimed the lives of 35 children at a …

The Nigerian Navy has rescued eight police officers and one civilian following a boat accident near the Agbura community in Bayelsa State.   The passengers were en route to Yenagoa but encountered trouble when their speedboat struck a submerged wreck and capsized.   The Director of Naval Information, Commodore Aiwuyor Adams-Aliu, in a statement on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, said …