President Bola Tinubu has assured South-South traditional rulers of his administration’s commitment to addressing their concerns on development and environmental degradation.The president gave the assurance on Tuesday at the State House during a meeting with the South-South Monarchs Forum.It was ...

The Kwara State House of Assembly has thrown its weight behind the decision of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq to rehabilitate the state-owned Kwara Hotels with over N17 billion. This was the resolution taken by the House at its plenary on Tuesday in Ilorin. In the resolution, the House ...

Read our Tanzania vs DR Congo predictions as AFCON’s Group F comes to its conclusion. DR Congo are yet to win a match, but remain unbeaten after an impressive draw against Morocco. Tanzania vs DR Congo Predictions & Tips DR Congo and under 2.5 goals at 3.30 DR Congo ...

President Bola Tinubu says his administration will continue to provide the needed interventions in the oil and gas industry in line with the provisions of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA).Speaking when he received a delegation from the Chevron Corporation, led by Mr Clay Neff, president of ...

The Kaduna State Police Command has arrested a suspected gunrunner in possession of 202 (two hundred and two) rounds of ammunition in the Zaria local government area of the state. This was contained in a statement issued by the police image maker, ASP Mansir Hassan, and made available to ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu hosted the United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday.Blinken arrived Nigeria on Tuesday evening for a bilateral meeting as part of his four-nation African tour. Apart from Nigeria, Blinken will visit Cape Verde, ...

Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, will next Tuesday headline a conference on solid minerals as the keynote speaker, a statement by the organisers has said. The conference, themed “Digging Deeper: Diversifying Nigeria’s Economy for Wealth Creation,” an initiative of Businessday ...

Al-Nassr are looking to make a double bid to sign Manchester United’s duo of Casemiro and Aaron Wan-Bissaka. According to Mail Sport, the Red Devils want to offload some of their high-earning players. Last month, United’s football director, John Murtough, flew to Riyadh to explore potential ...

By Friday Idachaba, Lokoja Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has been dragged before a Lokoja High Court over alleged estimated billing and illegal disconnection by an aggrieved customer, Mr Ugochukwu Orakwue, claiming N50 million damages. has dragged Abuja Electricity ...

Pakistani authorities on Tuesday said they were allowing Afghan truck drivers through the shared border with Afghanistan for the first time in over 10 days.“Torkham border has been reopened, and dozens of trucks loaded with goods have already crossed the border,” said Muhammad Ishaq, a customs ...

The Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has charged the principals superintending over the secondary schools across the state to exhibit more legitimate commitments that would ensure better ratings for the state in public examinations in the country. Oyebanji said he would never relent in ...

Vanessa Obioha Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” maintains its award season dominance, securing an impressive 13 Oscar nominations. Nolan himself received nods for Best Picture and Best Director, while the talented cast, including Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., and Emily Blunt earned ...

Weyenmi Oketie, an environmental activist and clean energy campaigner, says Lagos State produces more plastic waste than countries like Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, and even some European nations. In an interview on Channels TV on Tuesday, Oketie underscored the detrimental impact of plastic pollution ...

There seems to be confusion in Rivers State over the two different rulings of the Federal High Court on the ongoing political crisis in the state. Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor and minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, had been at loggerheads ...

The Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria, PETROAN says it is engaging the management of Dangote Petroleum Refinery to get a direct supply of petroleum products from the facility. Chairman of PETROAN in Rivers State, Francis Dimkpa in an interview with DAILY POST said ...

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has blamed politicians for creating tension and propaganda to gaslight kidnap cases in the capital city. He stated this in a now-deleted video shared by a platform – Symfoni News on its YouTube handle. However, an extraction of the ...

By Palma Ileye Federal Government has assured Nigerians that those found culpable in circumstances leading to the tragic Ibadan explosion will face the full weight of the law. This assurance is contained in a press release issued by Segun Tomori, Special Assistant on Media to the Minister of ...

The Akure Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered the remand of a 30-year-old man, Sola Ayemibo, for robbing and killing a motorcyclist, Olawale Bello. The police arraigned the defendant, whose address was not given, on two counts of robbery and murder. The prosecutor, Insp ...

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has flagged off an advocacy campaign, aimed at combating the rise in the use of tobacco among the nation’s youths. Flagging off the campaign, tagged ”Don’t Burn Their Future’, in Lagos on Monday, the Acting Executive Vice ...

***says former Aviation Minister, Sirika should allow Tinubu’s administration to functionArewa Consultative Youth and Women Forum (ACYWF) has distanced itself from the criticism and protest in some quarters over the relocation of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) from Abuja to ...

By Zayd Ibn Isah“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart.” – Nelson Mandela It was a Saturday ...

In line with the example set by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Government, Governor Umo Eno of Akwa State has issued an Executive Order (EO) for the state government-owned private jet to be put into commercial use with a view to drastically cut governance cost. Recall that President ...

By Kenneth Atavti The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Dr.  Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN has vowed that under his watch, corrupt practices will not be tolerated within the Commission. The Chairman made this pledge on Monday while ...

A former Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Femi Adesina, has dismissed as absurd the notion of a Buhari clone known as ‘Jubril of Sudan,’ in his new book titled: “Working with Buhari: Reflections of a Special Adviser, Media, and Publicity (2015 – 2023),” ...

Twins, Taye and Kehinde Taiwo, 22, and their younger brother, Israel Taiwo, 20, on Tuesday appeared before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court charged with N365,000 theft. The defendants, all residents of 19, Odunbaku St., Iju- Ishaga, Lagos State, are facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and ...

The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Corporate Affairs Commission to register a new association for lawyers in the country. Some lawyers had sued the CAC over its failure to register their association as a legal practitioner body in the country. The lawyers ...

Civil Society Organizations, CSOs, numbering 50, under the auspices of Coalition of Civil Society Organisations in Nigeria, COCSON, Monday, called on President Bola Tinubu, to commence investigations against former Comptroller General of Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Service, NAQS, Dr ...

The Federal Capital Territory Administration says it will soon bar unpainted taxis and buses from plying Abuja roads.FCT minister Nyesom Wike said this while addressing journalists in Abuja on Monday.Mr Wike explained that the move was to address the ‘one chance’ menace in the city.‘Once chance’ ...

The Youth in Agribusiness (YAS) project of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has trained 1,918 young individuals across Nigeria. The YAS project, in its goal to train 10,000 youths between the ages of 18 and 35, aims to expose youth to diverse opportunities in ...

The Federal Government has ex­pressed its commitment to enhance collaboration with the Interna­tional Labour Organisation (ILO) to broaden access to social safety nets for Nigerians.Mrs Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, made this announce­ment during a meeting ...

The Nigeria Police Force has confirmed the arrest of a Local Government chairman in Benue for his alleged involvement in plan to assassinate the speaker of the state Assembly. The spokesperson of the Nigeria Police, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi confirmed this in a press statement on Monday night ...

The Northern Senators Forum has alleged unfair treatment of the region in the projections and provisions of the N28.7tn 2024 budget. The Senators also lamented the relocation of some federal agencies to Lagos State. They, however, assured their constituents of their commitment towards ...

Germany is considering a bill that will allow foreign citizens comprising those from countries not members of the European Union, to be recruited into its army.Disclosing this to DW, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the head of the German ...

Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc has assured it will always be on the driver’s seat of efforts to move Nigeria’s economy forward, in spite of the various gridlocks. This was stated by the firm’s chairman, Dr Akin Ogunbiyi, at its 28th annual thanksgiving ceremony in Lagos, while adding that the ...

Two courts of coordinate jurisdiction on Monday issued conflicting judgments on the passage of the Rivers State 2024 budget.While Justice James Omotoso of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja invalidated the presentation and passage of the Rivers 2024 budget by four members of the state House ...

By Ogaga Ariemu President Bola Tinubu says his administration will not relent in addressing corruption and other challenges facing the country. According to a statement by Ajuri Ngelale, a presidential spokesperson, Tinubu disclosed this on Monday after meeting the leadership of the Christian ...

By Matthew Atungwu The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, says 5,081 persons were killed in Road Traffic Crashes, RTCs, across the country, in 2023. The figure represents a 21 per cent reduction from the 6,456 persons that died in road traffic cashes in 2022. The Corps Marshal, Dauda Ali-Biu, ...

Amidst  threats and disaffection coming from the Arewa Consultative Forum  over plan by the Federal Government to relocation the headquarter of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and certain departments of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to Lagos, another Arewa group has called for ...

A new report has projected that the Central Bank of Nigeria may ask commercial banks with international banking licence to raise their capital base to over N900bn. This came a few months after the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Olayemi Cardoso, said the apex bank would be asking lenders to ...

Officers of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS), BEECROFT at the weekend conducted a sting operation along Lagos waterways, intercepting a large wooden boat laden with weeds suspected to be cannabis sativa with an estimated street value of N128 million The seizure was made at the Ibeju-Lekki ...

As the Plateau State House of Assembly resumes plenary today (Tuesday), the 16 lawmakers elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party said they would resume their legislative duties despite their sacking by the Court of Appeal. This came as the All ...

The Rivers State Police Command has issued an official query to three officers and commenced their orderly room trial for extorting two young men of N4 million in Aba, Abia State.  The officers identified as Assistant ...

Yamoussoukro’s Charles Konan Banny Stadium plays host to an interesting Group C tie between reigning champions, Senegal taking on Guinea in what will be a decider for the first place on Tuesday, 23 January.Following their 3-1 win over Cameroon, which was preceded by a 3-0 win over Gambia, ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has recognised Hon. Martins Amaewhule as the authentic Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly.The court headed by Justice James Omotosho also nullified the N800 billion 2024 budget signed into law by the Governor Siminalayi Fubara. The development is ...

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday nullified the N800bn budget signed into law by the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara. Justice James Omotoso ordered Fubara to present the budget afresh to the legislature. But civil society organisations, on Monday, staged ...

It’s call to anarchy – APCThe 16 former lawmakers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau State who were sacked by the Court of Appeal in November 2023 have vowed to resume legislative duties today.The sacked legislators made this known yesterday during a media briefing in Jos, the ...

Police have been mobilised after supporters of the host nation Cote d’Ivoire resorted to violence following the country’s disastrous 4-0 loss to Equatorial Guinea in their final group game on Monday.In a video seen by Peoples Gazette, the body of a bus apparently forced to be abandoned as a ...

President Bola Tinubu on Monday emphasised that his administration will not relent in addressing corruption and other vices because it is a sacred duty to ensure that the country is set right for the prosperity of all Nigerians. He made the declaration when he received a delegation of the ...

The Health Sector Reform Coalition (HSRC) is set to welcome the United States Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, on a diplomatic visit to Africa, in a move to drive comprehensive and quality health outcomes in Africa’s healthcare sector. The HSRC is a national health reform focused to ...

The father of the six girls who were abducted in the Bwari area of the Federal Capital Territory, Mansur Al-Kadriyar, has narrated their ordeal at the hands of the bandits. Al-Kadriyar alongside his daughters were abducted by gunmen at their residence in Zuma 1, Bwari ...