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The Nigerian Natural Medicine Development Agency says it has started creating a comprehensive national database of traditional medicine practitioners as part of efforts to standardise and strengthen the sector. The Director-General of NNMDA, Prof. Martins Emeje, said this on Tuesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja. Emeje spoke following his appointment as Co-Chair of the World Health Organisation Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (STAG-TM) in December 2025. Speaking on how he intended to leverage the position to advance traditional medicine practice in Nigeria and Africa, Emeje said the agency…

Liverpool midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai has said that the future of Mohamed Salah at the club is a matter for the player and the club to decide, as uncertainty continues over the Egypt forward’s return. Speaking to BBC Sports on Tuesday, he said, “That’s between him and me. He will come back, and then we keep on going. It’s the decision between the manager and the club.” The Hungary international also revealed that he has been in regular contact with Salah since leaving Merseyside on 15 December, saying: “Yes, to be honest, almost every day. We speak about everything. I’m following…

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says consumers are starting to see the impact of tariffs less than a year after President Donald Trump implemented sweeping fees on a range of imported goods. During an interview with CNBC, Jassy says the inventory Amazon and third-party sellers prebought in early 2025 to keep prices low has “run out,” which means “you start to see some of the tariffs creep into some of the prices.”The admission comes just one day after a study from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy found that foreign exporters absorb just 4 percent of the cost of tariffs,…

On Jan. 16, Pennsylvania-based lender Newrez announced plans to accept certain cryptocurrency holdings when considering mortgage applications. The change, which the company said will take effect in February, will apply to loans for homes, refinancing and other investment properties.For Newrez, the plan comes on the tailwinds of directions from the US Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) last year. In June 2025, the FHFA ordered Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) to develop plans for recognizing crypto in loan applications.In doing so, crypto gained at least partial recognition from two major government enterprises…

Hilary Duff appeared to get emotional as she sang a new track that fans think is about her older sister, Haylie Duff. Hilary, 38, returned to the stage for her first headline performance in 18 years on Monday, January 19, at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire. The former Lizzie McGuire star kicked off her Small Rooms, Big Nerves tour, treating fans to songs old and new. The actress and singer performed several new tracks lifted from her upcoming album Luck … or Something, which marks her first studio LP in over a decade and is due for release on February…

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to publish the names of the candidates forwarded to it by the chairperson of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), David Mark. The judge, Mohammed Umar, gave the order in a judgement on a suit regarding the upcomig 21 February area council elections in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Seventeen candidates of ADC had sued INEC alongside the party over the refusal of the electoral body to grant their party electronic access to upload their details for the elections. The candidates said they paid N20…

Controversial singer Habeeb “Portable” Okikiola has regained freedom after spending a week in police detention over an alleged assault on police officers and other individuals. The singer was remanded by a Federal High Court sitting in Ota, Ogun State, on 13 January 2026, for allegedly assaulting police officers and other individuals at his bar in the Iyana Ilogbo area on 1 January 2026. He was arraigned on a nine-count charge bordering on assault, theft, causing harm, and resisting arrest. He was also accused of stealing a Mercedes-Benz E300 valued at N12 million. The ‘Spider-Man’ crooner was denied bail due to…

The Ogun State Government has dismissed as blackmail and reckless defamation allegations by a Labour Party chieftain, Mr. Arabambi Abayomi, that the administration of Dapo Abiodun is selling government-owned housing assets, including the Ibara Government Reserved Area (GRA). The government described Abayomi as an attention-seeking rabble-rouser with a penchant for blackmail, alleging that his claims were motivated by resentment after he was kept at arm’s length by the administration. In a statement issued on Tuesday in Abeokuta, the Special Adviser on Media and Strategy to the Governor, Hon. Kayode Akinmade, said the allegations were misleading and deliberately aimed at distorting…

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday dismissed a suit instituted by Senator Samuel Anyanwu, a factional National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in which he sought official recognition as the party’s scribe. Justice Mohammed Umar struck out the suit after it was established that Anyanwu’s tenure as PDP National Secretary had elapsed in December 2025, thereby rendering the matter academic. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/254/2025, was originally filed against the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and Umar Damagun, former Acting National Chairman of the PDP, listed as the…

The management of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, IBBUL, Niger State, has launched an investigation into the death of 300-level Computer Science student, Kelvin Danlami, cautioning against speculation and the spread of unverified information Danlami was said have committed suicide after allegedly mismanaging rent money entrusted in his custody on gambling.. The university’s management in a statement issued by Alhaji Baba Akote, Deputy Registrar, Information, said it is working with security agencies to determine the circumstances surrounding Danlami’s death. “The University wishes to state clearly that it is not aware of and was not a party to any financial or…