Author: News Room

90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way alum Armando Niedermeier-Rubio shared a positive update on his 13-year-old daughter Hannah’s health following her hospitalization. “She’s improving every day, doing amazing and getting back to her old self slowly but surely,” Niedermeier-Rubio revealed via Instagram on Saturday, July 18. “Although we still have so many unanswered questions as to the cause of her medical emergency and still seeing how she progresses.” Hannah was hospitalized in Arizona earlier this week after being airlifted from her home in Mexico due to rapidly declining health. Doctors determined that Hannah had blood on brain after she experienced…

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Anambra Sector Command, has confirmed the death of three persons while four others sustained injuries in a lone road crash along the Nnobi–Agulu–Awka Road. The Sector Commander, Bridget Asekhauno, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Awka. Mr Asekhauno said the crash occurred on Friday near St. Jude Catholic Church, Adazi-Ani, and involved a Mercedes-Benz 608 commercial truck with registration number XB270NNL. She said preliminary investigation indicated that the truck developed a mechanical fault while in motion, caught fire, and the driver lost control before crashing into a roadside barricade and somersaulting. According…

As Nigeria undertakes this historic reform of its policing architecture, we must resist the temptation to focus only on decentralising power. Equally important is democratising accountability. A decentralised police system without democratic oversight merely relocates power; it does not necessarily make policing better. But a decentralised police service anchored on broad-based democratic accountability has the potential to transform policing into what it ought to be, a truly public institution that exists to serve, protect, and earn the trust of the Nigerian people. Some of us have consistently argued that many of the pressing challenges confronting Nigeria are rooted in the…

While Lionel Messi himself remains as beloved as any athlete on the planet, the team he captains has become the most distrusted side at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Argentina are one match away from defending their World Cup title, but heading into Sunday’s final against Spain, the mood surrounding them is not celebratory; it is suspicious. Messi remains as beloved as any athlete on the planet: humble, generational, and adored well beyond Argentina’s own fanbase. And yet, the team he captains has become the most distrusted side left in the tournament, mocked online as “VARgentina.” A petition calling for…

Kuwait and Bahrain’s militaries said on Sunday they were responding to Iranian aerial attacks, and air raid sirens sounded in the two Gulf countries as Tehran pressed its retaliatory strikes across the region. “Kuwaiti air defences are currently confronting hostile missile and drone attacks, following the sinful Iranian aggression,” the army said in a statement, as an AFP journalist reported warning sirens sounding in Kuwait City. In the island kingdom of Bahrain, host of the US Fifth Fleet, the military said its air defences “confronted, intercepted, and destroyed a number of treacherous Iranian aerial attacks.” An AFP journalist said blasts…

Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) CEO, Jason Oxman, indicated that members of his organization might start recognizing Bitcoin’s disruptive potential, suggesting that this might lead to more partnerships between traditional electronic payment providers and Bitcoin startups.On August 6, the ETA, which represents companies like Visa, MasterCard, Amazon and PayPal, welcomed BitPay, the first virtual currency company to become an ETA member, according to the press release. The announcement expressed the ETA’s commitment to embrace new technologies, and said to expect “more such partnerships as the payments industry innovates for the future.”In a recent interview with CoinDesk, the head of the financial…

Controversial “manosphere” influencer Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate, have been arrested in Miami after the U.K. government filed rape and sex trafficking charges against the siblings. “We have decided to prosecute Andrew and Tristan Tate for further offenses including rape, arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation and offenses relating to indecent images of a child,” Malcolm McHaffie, head of the U.K. Special Crime Division at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), announced on Saturday, July 18. “These charging decisions followed receipt of a further file of evidence from Bedfordshire Police and bring the total number of alleged victims…

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has elected Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), as its next president after she polled the most votes when voting officially ended Sunday morning. Mrs Badejo-Okusanya, the only female among the three presidential candidates, polled 12,317 votes to emerge the winner of the election which was held through electronic voting for 24 hours. from 7:35 a.m. on Saturday to 7:34 a.m. on Sunday. The SAN defeated her two male challengers, polling 47.18 per cent of the 26,106 ballots cast in the presidential election, based on the final tally on the Live Election Results…

…Nigeria has made very significant progress in financial inclusion. Formal financial inclusion in Nigeria grew from 36 per cent in 2010 to 64 per cent in 2023. Access to digital payments more than doubled from 22 per cent in 2010 to 52 per cent in 2023, according to EFINA Access to Finance data. I will like to share ten lessons from financial inclusion that can be applied to scaling health solutions for systems impact and tackling Nigeria’s health equity challenges successfully. There are huge correlations between financial exclusion and health exclusion in Nigeria. Financial exclusion is highest in North-West and…

After 103 matches across three nations, countless unforgettable moments, and the first-ever 48-team FIFA World Cup, only two teams remain. On Sunday at the iconic New York-New Jersey Stadium, Spain and Argentina will contest the biggest match in world football, with history, legacy, and immortality hanging in the balance. For Spain, victory would secure a second FIFA World Cup crown and cement a remarkable new golden generation led by teenage sensation Lamine Yamal and midfield general Rodri. For Argentina, the stakes are arguably higher. Lionel Scaloni’s side stands on the brink of successfully defending the title won in Qatar four…