Author: Vincent Osuwo

No fewer than 871,000 people die worldwide annually from loneliness, the World Health Organisation (WHO) revealed on Monday. According to the WHO commission, one in every six persons globally suffers from loneliness, which, combined with social isolation, can lead to physical sickness. It claimed that loneliness raises the risk of strokes, heart attacks, diabetes, depression, anxiety, and suicide. According to the World Health Organisation, lonely teenagers are 22% more likely to get lower grades than their peers, and lonely adults have more difficulty finding or retaining a job. The impact is societal as well as individual, with billions of dollars…

Suspended senator representing Kogi Central Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan appeared before the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday for her second arraignment on charges of defamation against Senate President Godswill Akpabio and former Kogi State governor Yahaya Bello. Natasha was accompanied to court by her husband, Emmanuel Uduaghan, human rights activist Aisha Yesufu, and a group of supporters. The matter is likely to be heard before Justice Mohammed Umar. On June 19, 2025, the legislator was first charged with comparable offences in front of the Federal Capital Territory High Court. At the previous hearing, the trial judge refused the federal government’s…

The Edo State Governor, Sen. Monday Okpebholo, over the weekend, said he would utilise his developmental projects in all parts of the state to deliver the 2.5 million votes he recently promised to President Bola Tinubu in 2027. To achieve this, Okpebholo stated that he had taken construction to rural areas that were largely abandoned by the former government, including the community of the former governor, Godwin Obaseki, where he stated that he was tarring roads in the eight communities that comprise the area. Okpebholo made the remark at a South–South Stakeholders forum of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), which…

The Emir of Kano, His Royal Highness Muhammadu Sanusi II, has bemoaned the worsening state of Nigeria’s economy, saying that every sector in the country is battered and in decline. The monarch, represented by labour and human rights activist Dr Comrade Auwalu Mudi Yakasai (Danmalikin Kano), made the remarks at the 51st regular National Executive Council (NEC) meeting/training workshop of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), which was held at the Aliko Dangote University of Science and Technology in Wudil, Kano State. According to Sanusi, the Nigerian labour movement is facing one of its most difficult periods in…

Elvis Okerenyi, a staff of the Federal Ministry of Aviation, has been sentenced to one year in prison for defrauding a job seeker by offering him a position in the Federal Civil Service. The sentence was imposed by Justice S.C. Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory’s High Court after the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) brought him before the court. The commission’s investigations found that Okerenyi accepted N1 million from Titus Tavershima under the guise of finding him a job in the Federal Civil Service. The ICPC stated that the act violates Section 320 and is…

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) will launch a new trophy on Wednesday ahead of this year’s WAFCON tournament, which will be played from July 5 to 26 in Morocco. The football body made the announcement on Sunday, three days before the unveiling. “The new TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations Trophy will be launched on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, in Morocco, the host nation for this year’s event,” CAF said in a statement. “The new trophy is part of CAF President Dr Patrice Motsepe’s vision to grow and develop women’s football in Africa. “CAF will launch the trophy on…

The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has said it will be a huge relief for members if its 2023 presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, joins the All Progressives Congress (APC). Mr Oginni Olaposi, the NNPP National Secretary, made this declaration on Sunday in Lagos. Olaposi was reacting to the resignation of APC national chairman Abdullahi Ganduje and the suspicion that he left the ruling party over the former Kano state governor’s purported move to join them. Ganduje resigned as chairman of the APC on Friday, citing health difficulties. Olaposi added that, while the resignation is an APC internal matter, the party…

Abakaliki FC officials, runners-up in the 2025 President Federation Cup, were involved in a road accident on Sunday while returning to Ebonyi State from Lagos, where the team played in the cup final. The Abakaliki Football Club verified the event in a statement posted on its official Facebook page. The accident occurred on the Benin-Ore motorway near Ondo when the team’s officials’ bus apparently failed to brake and crashed with a moving truck. The collision occurred less than 24 hours after the club fell 4-3 on penalties to Kwara United at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena in Onikan, Lagos. In an…

Nollywood actor Fatai Adetayo, also known as Lalude, has accused President Bola Tinubu and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s campaign teams of betrayal and abandonment after participating in the 2023 general elections campaign. In a now viral video interview on YouTube’s Behind the Fame channel, Lalude alleged that he and colleagues who campaigned for the All Progressives Congress leaders for over a month were never compensated as promised. “We spent one month and three weeks to campaign. They were giving us ten thousand daily for feeding. “It was supposed to be more than that for campaign purposes, but they decided it is…

Ibadin Judith-Chukwu, the Anambra State Commander of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, (NAPTIP) has stated that human trafficking in the state is becoming increasingly frightening. Judith-Chukwu also voiced concern about a troubling trend in the state, in which young people are now living together by mutual consent just to create babies for sale. In an interview with journalists in her Awka office on Saturday, she stated that NAPTIP, as the agency in charge, has done a good job of forming state task teams to combat human trafficking in rural areas, where it is most widespread.…