By Ibrahim Shuaibu:The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has declared that flooding has destroyed 14,496 farms in five local government areas in Kano State.The Director General of the NEMA, Mr. Mustapha Ahmed Habib, disclosed this during an ‘on-the-spot’ assessment tour of communities ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. The president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke has warned about the far-reaching effects of the judgement of the National Industrial Court, which ordered lecturers back to class. ...

Some residents in the Oko-Oba area of Lagos State, have trooped out, Wednesday, to protest what they described as indiscriminate disconnection and estimated billing, allegedly by the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company.They are also protesting the arrest of two members of the community, Imam ...

The senate has confirmed the appointment of Olukayode Ariwoola as the substantive chief justice of Nigeria (CJN).Ariwoola has been holding the office since the resignation of Ibrahim Muhammad.Muhammad resigned after 14 justices of the apex court accused him of abandoning his responsibilities as the ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has reached a new agreement with the federal government. The leadership of the House of Representatives on Tuesday brokered the new agreement after four hours of meeting at the National ...

By Tonye BarcanistaI read a Nairaland publication credited to one Mr Ajuri Ngelale, a Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Public Affairs under the office of the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Muhammed, titled "Ajuri Ngelale Berates PDP For Attempting To Come Back In ...

By Onyebuchi Ezigbo:Child labour has remained a major threat to development and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) in Nigeria in spite of legislative measures that had been taken by the government at various levels to curb it.Both the wife of the president, Mrs. Aisha Buhari and ...

By Kemi Olaitan:The Chairman, Disciplinary Committee of the Park Management System (PMS) in Oyo State, Alhaji  Mukaila Lamidi (aka Auxiliary), has called on the state police command and other security operatives, to be at alert in apprehending and penalizing members of the proscribed National Union ...

By Sunday Aborisade:The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said the red chamber will screen for confirmation, the appointment of the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, Wednesday.Ariwoola has been on acting capacity for nearly two months since his appointment ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, counsel to the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu has said his client has been diagnosed with gastrointestinal disorder. In a statement on Monday, Ejiofor said the development ...

The authorities of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) have said that whereas the Corporation barely earns up to N1.7m per day, it uses about 24,000 litres of diesel daily for the Lagos- Ibadan route, amounting to about N4 million.NRC said that it spends 135.3 percent higher than what it earns ...

U.S. court orders Governor Abiodun’s moneybag Bidemi Rufai to pay $604,260, forfeit assetsThe Ogun governor’s aide was apprehended in May 2021 by U.S. security officials at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport in an attempt to flee.ADEFEMOLA AKINTADEThe U.S. district court for the ...

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will on Friday, launch Nigeria’s Integrated National Financing Framework for Sustainable Development on the margins of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the United States.This comes two years after Nigeria ...

•Launch new database on public finance•States’ internally generated revenue grew by 35% in 2021 to N1.67trn•Insecurity: Northern govs back southern counterparts on state policeThe 36 state governors yesterday commenced a brainstorming session on how to improve their internally generated revenue ...

The Nigeria Customs Services has allegedly sold about 6,000 impounded vehicles and other items to selected firms and individuals, The PUNCH has learnt.The auction of the vehicles, it was gathered, was done without open competitive bidding, contrary to the Bureau of Public Procurement Act, 2007.The ...

By Laleye Dipo:Not less than 20 out of the 25 local government areas of Niger State have been affected by flooding caused by heavy rainfall which has resulted in the death of no fewer than 14 people.The situation is also compounded by the opening of the spillway gates of the three hydro electric ...

By Onyebuchi Ezigbo:The federal government has said that it will soon embark on the re-adustment of salaries and allowances of civil servants, so as to bring it in line with the economic realities in the country.Government’s position came just as the former Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has ...

By Deji Elumoye:The National Assembly has transmitted the Technology-enabled Start-up Bill to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent having passed through all required legislative processes.The Bill, according to a release issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly ...

 By Francis Ezediuno Alatise, Ilupeju and Ijaregbe communities in Ilesa and Obokun local government areas of Osun State have described their disconnection from the national grid by the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) as obnoxious, callous and wicked. Residents of the communities in ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. Anambra State Governor, Professor Charles Soludo, has identified the unknown gunmen unleashing terror on the State as Igbo people, saying that the perpetrators are not invaders. Soludo said suspects arrested so far “are 100 percent ...

Men of the Lagos State Police Command, Lagos Airport Police Command and students, under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students, may be set for a showdown over the students’ plan to ground the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos on Monday (today).The students’ ...

By Emmanuel Addeh:The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) at the weekend assured that with the N621 tax credit scheme made available by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPCL) as well as the Sukuk fund, many challenges of funding of roads projects will be mitigated in ...

By Onyebuchi Ezigbo:The federal government has said it has commenced investigations into a report by the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) indicting some Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of harbouring ghost workers and ripping government huge resources in form of ...

By David-Chyddy Eleke:Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has said that hoodlums operating under the name of unknown gunmen will not be allowed to brand the entire youths of the state as criminals.The governor also pledged to take youths of the state off crime through support for ...

From Molly Kilete, Abuja  The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya, has warned officers and soldiers of the Nigerian army to stay away from politicians and resist temptations by misguided elements to disrepute the image of the service.The army chief has equally warned those ...

Following the resignation of former Inspector-General of Police Musiliu Smith as the chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), real reasons that led to his exit have begun to surface, Daily Trust on Sunday reports.Although the management, through the spokesman of the commission, Ikechukwu ...

By Don Silas Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, will be representing Nigeria at a number of events on Sunday and Monday during the State funeral for the late Queen Elizabeth ll of the United Kingdom.Osinbajo departed Abuja on Saturday and will join members of the Royal Family, world leaders – ...

By Ochogwu Sunday  Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. Following a seven-month standoff between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, yesterday, vowed to halt operations at all ...

Fresh Court documents have revealed how the Department of State Security Services, DSS, recovered over $151,000 dollars(over N105,000,000) in cash during a recent raid on the residence of Desert Herald Publisher, Tukur Mamu.This is contrary to the widespread reports that a paltry sum of $151 was ...

By Deji Elumoye:Vice President Yemi Osinbajo leaves Abuja Saturday for London to represent Nigeria at a number of events on Sunday and Monday, during the State funeral for the late Queen Elizabeth ll of the United Kingdom.The Vice President, according to a release issued by his media assistant, ...

By Ochogwu Sunday  Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. The Government of the United Kingdom has published at least 56 dead Nigerians with unclaimed estates and other valuable assets. This is contained on the UK’s government Treasury Solicitor website. The report said ...

From Charity Nwakaudu, Abuja The Federal Government through the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) has advised 13 states to be on red alert against flooding.Clement Onyeaso Nze, the Director General of NIHSA gave the advice through a press statement made available to newsmen on Friday, in ...

From Paul Osuyi, AsabaAs political activities continue to gather steam ahead of the 2023 general elections, civil servants have be charged to be discerning and to shun rumour-mongering and misleading information.The Head of Service in Delta State, Mr. Reginald Bayoko who gave the charge in Asaba, ...

From Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa A group, Niger Delta Rescue Movement (NDRM) has warned against attempts to circumvent the Act establishing the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in constituting the substantive board of the interventionist agency.There have been clamours in recent times for ...

From Jude Chinedu, Enugu The FederalGovernment has constituted the South East Traditional Leaders’ Committee on Primary Health Care (PHC) Delivery in Enugu.Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, who inaugurated the committee, said the move was to mobilise traditional rulers to be part of government ...

From Lateef Dada, Osogbo Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, yesterday vowed to reduce poverty by creating 100,000 jobs for youths within two years.He also pledged to create 100 stalls in Nigeria within the stipulated period.Speaking with newsmen during the unveiling of OjajaMore, a retail store ...

The discord created among ex-militant leaders by the recent award of multi-million naira pipeline surveillance contract to two companies linked to former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo and three others by the Nigerian ...

From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari will on Wednesday deliver his address at the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).This will be the first full in-person meeting since the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced most addresses to be delivered virtually. But ...

By Sunday Aborisade:President Muhammadu Buhari may not appear before the joint Senate and House of Representatives session to present the 2023 budget next month. The uncertainty was confirmed yesterday to journalists by the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, after inspection of Room 022 ...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DMbxEqabmA Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi has said that the problems facing Nigeria are not ones that can be solved overnight.He, however opined that the challenge facing the country are solvable while stressing on the need for a leader who is ...

16th September 2022Some of the 286 foreigners conferred with Nigerian citizenship on Thursday have explained why they chose to become Nigerians at a time the country was going through some challenges.The News Agency of Nigeria reports that 208 of them were conferred citizenship status by ...

Any law that empowers the government to confiscate and/ or auction the vehicle or other property of a citizen for an alleged offense(s), without fair hearing and due process is unconstitutional and void. Such a law offends the fundamental rights to fair hearing and property.The court of law will ...

Canadian judge Henry Brown has granted asylum reliefs to Lukmon Owolabi Shoyebo after claiming APC presidential flag bearer Bola Tinubu tried to kill him in Lagos for defecting to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015.Mr Shoyebo, a former APC youth leader, operating on a local level, said he ...

PIPELINE CONTRACT: AGITATED OIL THIEVES, COLLABORATORS FUELING MEDIA ATTACK ON TOMPOLO – IPL••SAYS FG HAS ACTED IN THE PUBLIC INTERESTThe Ijaw Patriotic League (IPL) has declared support for the Federal Government not to revoke the oil pipeline protection contract awarded to a company in which High ...

From Sola Ojo, Kaduna A Kaduna-based Journalist and immediate past Secretary of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kaduna State Council, John Femi Adi, on Friday morning announces his intention to donate one of his kidneys to an ailing daughter of Senator Ike Ekweremadu. He announced this on ...

By Blessing Ibunge:The immediate past Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col Milland Dikio (rtd) has congratulated Maj.-Gen. Barry Ndiomu (rtd) for succeeding him as the new boss of the programme.In a statement Friday, Dikio said be has the confidence that Ndiomu would ...

By Daily Post Staff   Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olabode George has insisted that a southern candidate must replace Iyorchia Ayu as the national chairman of the party before the beginning ...

Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) Abike Dabiri-Erewa has stated that Nigerians claiming to be stranded in United Arab Emirates (UAE) are ex-convicts.According to her, many of those affected have not been totally cooperative as they refused to follow the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja awarded Nigerian citizenship to 286 nationals, urging them to be good citizens of the country to enjoy all the rights and privileges bestowed on them."You have pledged your allegiance to Nigeria. When you give your love and loyalty to Nigeria, she ...

By Victor Ogunje:The Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP), South-west Zone, has cried out that its members are dying in droves across the states due to unpaid pension, gratuities and poor access to health insurance policy.The NUP, therefore, begged President Muhammadu Buhari and the state governors to ...