There was a twist in the mode of protest in Kwara state, as masquerades led youths in Omu-Aran, Irepodun Local Government Area of the State in their hundreds on Friday to protest what they described as ‘outrageous billing and sudden movement of the community’s electricity billing regime from Band C ...

By Ogaga AriemuThe federal government of Nigeria said Nigerians earning as low as N30,000 monthly will be able to access its planned 77,400 housing units across 777 local government areas in the country.The Minister of Housing and Urban ...

By Hadiza MusaFormer Vice President, Atiku Abubakar on Friday led a delegation of prominent political figures on a courtesy visit to former President Muhammadu Buhari at his residence in Daura, Katsina State.The visit, according to ...

By Ogaga AriemuThe Nigerian Railway Corporation has temporarily suspended Warri-itakpe train service.This was disclosed in a statement shared by Managing Director of the company, Kayode Opeifa, on his X account Thursday.The suspension will ...

By Matthew AtungwuThe Governorship Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the 2023 general elections in Bayelsa State, Udengs Eradiri has urged the suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara to beg the Minister of ...

By Ogaga AriemuGlobal crude prices crashed by 6 percent on Wednesday as the tariff war between the United States and China escalated.OilPrice.com data showed that WTI crude futures slumped by around $4.01, or 6.7 percent, to $56.06 per barrel, ...

By Musliudeen AdebayoA former governor of Oyo State, Victor Omololu Olunloyo is dead.Olunloyo, the first Ibadan indigene to rule Oyo State as governor, died in the early hours of Sunday.He died about three months to his 90th birthday....

 By Matthew AtungwuUS customs agents on Saturday began collecting President Donald Trump’s unilateral 10% tariff on all imports from many countries, with higher levies on goods from 57 larger trading partners due to start next week.DAILY POST ...

By Matthew AtungwuMany protesters on Saturday converged in Washington, DC, and across the US, part of some 1,200 demonstrations that were expected to form the largest single day of protest against President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally, Elon Musk ...

By Matthew AtungwuAt least three women were injured and several fires broke out in a Russian air attack on the southern Ukrainian region of Mykolaiv late on Saturday.In a post on the Telegram messaging app, regional Governor, Vitaly Kim, said ...

The General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries International, Apostle Johnson Suleman, has boasted that there is a tendency for his critics to be killed if they speak ill of him in his church situated in the Auchi Area of Edo State.Suleman sparked controversy with the ...

By John Owen NwachukwuIsrael has restarted ground operations in the northern Gaza Strip.Also, at least 25 people were killed in airstrikes in the southern city of Khan Younis on Friday.Israel said this is a renewed military campaign targeted at ...

By John Owen NwachukwuAt least 18 people have been confirmed dead after a Russian missile strike hit President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s home in the Ukraine’s central city of Kryvyi Rih.These include nine children as the missile struck the ...

US President Donald Trump has announced that exports from Nigeria to the United States will now be subjected to a 14 per cent tariff.The decision, which was made public during a ‘Make America Wealthy Again’ event in the Rose Garden on Wednesday, is part of a ...

By Daniel ChibuikeThere was tension at a local mortuary located along Aba-Ikot Ekpene road in Obingwa LGA of Abia State on Tuesday, after the testicle of a male deceased person, deposited in the mortuary was found to be missing.The discovery of the ...

By Matthew AtungwuChina on Thursday urged the United States to immediately cancel its latest tariffs and vowed countermeasures to safeguard its own interests.This was after President Donald Trump declared sweeping levies on all US trading ...

 By Seun OpejobiThe Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has denied introducing new N5,000 and N10,000 notes.CBN described the reports as false.There has been widespread reports that the CBN had unveiled the high-denomination bank ...

By John Owen NwachukwuRussia has said it was not ready to accept the latest United States peace proposals in their current form.The Kremlin highlighted the limited progress President Donald Trump has made on his promise to end the war in ...

By Ochogwu SundaySuspended senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has alleged that the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio and former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, plotted to kill her.The embattled lawmaker made the ...

Kenya’s President William Ruto sparked protests recently after donating some $150,000 to a Nairobi church just months after saying such hand-outs fuelled corruption.Ruto’s pledge of 20 million shillings to the Jesus Winner Ministry Church led to protesters gathering there ...

The lawmaker representing Kogi Central Senatorial District, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, on Tuesday, announced that she would not back out on her plan to return to her constituency for the Sallah break.The senator also urged her supporters to disregard speculations making the ...

The police have asked Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduagan to cancel her planned Sallah rally in the Central Senatorial district of Kogi State.The State Commissioner of Police, Miller Dantawaye made this known on Tuesday in a statement signed by the Police Public ...

 By Ifreke Inyang President Donald Trump has said he would like to run against former US president Barack Obama.Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump claimed Americans want him to run for another term.A third term is ...

The founder of Tantita Security Services Limited, Chief Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo and the Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas on Monday, announced that Niger Delta people will back President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid in 2027.The ...

The Federal Government has announced the closure of the Independence Bridge (Marina bound) starting April 1 for essential maintenance and rehabilitation works.The Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Mrs Olukorede Kesha, made this known in a statement on Monday in ...

The BBC said Monday its real income has fallen by £1 billion ($1.3 billion) a year compared to 2010 as it warned of “unprecedented” challenges to funding its content.“Without intervention, it will be difficult to maintain the current ambition and volume of UK ...

By Racheal AyodelePopular gospel singer, Sola Allyson, has reacted after being called out on social media for not mentioning “Jesus” in all her music.Allyson was called out after singer Panam Percy Paul’s recent interview.Percy Paul had ...

By Ifunanya Obeme-NdukweThe Chief of Staff to the suspended Governor of Rivers State, Edison Ehie, has alleged that he was offered a N5 billion bribe to support the impeachment of his principal while serving as Majority Leader of the Rivers State House of ...

By Seun OpejobiThe tenure of the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, Kemi Nandap has been extended till December 31, 2026, by President Bola Tinubu.The extension was disclosed in a ...

By Matthew AtungwuFormer Head of the Rivers State Civil Service, George Nwaeke, said he would provide evidence of public funds theft under the administration of suspended state governor Siminalayi Fubara to security operatives when called ...

Ruth Abraham’s hopes were dashed when she arrived at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Jabi, Abuja, on Monday, expecting to benefit from the federal government’s subsidy on dialysis. To her disappointment, the programme had yet to be implemented, ...

Aged women from Ishinkwo autonomous Community in Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi state, Monday, staged a peaceful protest over an alleged fraudulent activities by government officials involved in the ongoing land demarcation exercise between their community and their neighboring Abaomege ...

Ahead of the next general elections, the Senate has dropped the hint to reintroduce the inclusion of statutory delegates in political parties’ primaries in the proposed amendment of the Electoral Act 2022.The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio disclosed this in Abuja ...

Sen. Izunaso chairs steering committeeFrom Adesuwa Tsan, Abuja The Senate Committee on Sports Development has thrown its weight behind the annual Sam Okwaraji Under-16 All Nigeria Secondary Schools Soccer Championship, recently approved by the Nigeria Football ...

By John Ogunsemore Nigerian content creator, Amadou Elizabeth Aminata, popularly known as Jadrolita has hit back at a social media user who suggested she is uneducated. On Monday, Jadrolita took to X to share a video of her partner, Peller receiving the Influencer of ...

Folalumi Alaran Randle General Hospital, Surulere has joined the global celebration to mark this year’s World Glaucoma Week at the Opthalmology Department of the hospital in Lagos.With the theme, “Uniting for a Glaucoma free world, everybody has a ...

The Rivers State House of Assembly has served a notice of alleged misconduct against Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his deputy, Professor Ngozi Odu, marking the process to impeach them.A notice obtained from the Assembly on Monday revealed that the lawmakers claimed the action was in line with ...

Ikenna Obianeri The Obijackson Foundation, in collaboration with the Okija Bu Enyi Brothers Assembly, has donated waste evacuation tools to the Okija community in Ihiala Local Government Area, Anambra State. The donation includes 140 waste bins, two compactor trucks, two operational Hilux ...

Controversial media personality, Toke Makinwa has urged singles not to lower their standards due to societal pressure when it comes to choosing a partner.According to her, there is nothing wrong with a woman depending on a man to pay her bills, emphasising that men who do not ...

President Nnamdi Azikiwe was certain that the 1964 federal elections were a farce and should not produce a legitimate government. By hook and by crook, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa’s Nigerian National Alliance (NNA) party got 200 of its candidates elected into a parliament of 313 members. ...

The Imo State Police Command has responded to the crisis that erupted in Umusi/Olokwa Community, Owerri West LGA, which claimed the life of the Youth Leader-elect, Stanley Nwoke, two months after he was declared the winner of the Community Youth general election.In a press ...

.Says Nigeria needs leaders who can take informed, evidence-based decisionFormer Minister of Education, Dr Oby Ezekwesili, has highlighted the root cause of Nigeria’s leadership failure calling on professionals to step up to fix it.Ezekwesili, who is the founder of the ...

Alex Enumah in Abuja The Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC) has confirmed the appointment of Mr. Kabir Akanbi, as the substantive Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.According to a statement by the apex court’s spokesman, Dr Fetus Akande, the confirmation was ...

Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano state, on Saturday, hosted prominent members of the Council of Ulama and Imams for an Iftar gathering at the Government House, marking the 15th day of Ramadan. The event provided an opportunity to strengthen unity, acknowledge the role of religious leaders in ...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sued Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, over what it described as the “patently unlawful” suspension of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. The suit, filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja, ...

 Aminu Baba Dan Agundi, the Sarkin Dawaki Babba of Kano Emirate, has cautioned that Muhammadu Sanusi II risks facing contempt of court charges if he continues to present himself as the Emir of Kano. Speaking at a press conference at Nasarawa Palace, where Emir Aminu Ado Bayero currently ...

Here are the top 10 stories making headlines across the country today.1. ‘Appeal Court didn’t stop Sanusi’s reinstatement,’ Kano govt clarifies The Kano State government has addressed misinterpretations surrounding the recent Court of Appeal judgment on the ongoing Emirship ...

The Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, on Saturday clarified that he never said former President Olusegun Obasanjo should not use the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway when completed. Mr Umahi made the clarification during an inspection tour of the highway project in Lagos. He reacted to ...

Just days after his high-profile defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai is generating controversy as a central figure in the opposition’s strategy to prevent President Bola Tinubu from securing ...

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