Laravel PHP server throwing 500 error during the attempt to login

Everything was good till yesterday. I added a new column for address in the user table yesterday & since today morning i am unable to login to the server using the credentials. This is the error that i see from laravel.log :

[2020-08-21 12:32:37] development.ERROR: Trying to get property 'name' of non-object (View: /home2/myproject/public_html/shopnow/resources/views/settings/users/profile.blade.php) {"userId":51,"exception":"[object] (ErrorException(code: 0): Trying to get property 'name' of non-object (View: /home2/myproject/public_html/shopnow/resources/views/settings/users/profile.blade.php) at /home2/myproject/public_html/shopnow/storage/framework/views/72651b71bab253e2219bb6bb6d755554a18af965.php:63, ErrorException(code: 0): Trying to get property 'name' of non-object at /home2/myproject/public_html/shopnow/storage/framework/views/72651b71bab253e2219bb6bb6d755554a18af965.php:63)

I realize that its somethign wrong with the "name" property, but not sure what the issue is. I was hoping to get some expert advise here. Can someone please help ?

via Chebli Mohamed