By Seyi Babalola Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has stated that the recent hike in Value Added Tax, (VAT), is poised to become the blazing inferno that will consume the very essence of Nigerian people. According to Atiku, Tinubu and his aides decided to raise the VAT rate from 7.5% to 10% ...

A Turkish-American woman was fatally shot by Israeli forces during a protest against settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, according to reports from the Palestinian news agency WAFA. The woman, identified as Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, died from a gunshot wound to the head after participating ...

At least 61 people have been killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza in the last two days as Israel’s war on the besieged enclave enters its 12 month with little sign of respite for the Palestinian territory. Israeli air raids killed more than a dozen people overnight into Saturday, hospital and ...

A mother of three children and one other person have been killed in a flood disaster that occurred at Ugwu Mkpume Layout, Achalla Agu community in the Nkpor Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State. The victims were asleep when the flood burst into their ...

A senior official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said the United States is pressing for consular access to a detained Binance executive, Tigran Gambaryan, currently held at the Kuje custodial centre in Abuja. Gambaryan, a US citizen and Binance’s financial ...

By Matthew Atungwu There was pandemonium as a petrol-laden tanker exploded burning two articulated trucks, one 18-seater bus, two commercial cabs and three motorcycles in Iyana-Ajia, Egbeda area, Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. As of the time of filing this ...

Fresh revelation have emerged as to why the special adviser to the President Bola Tinubu on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, resigned.Although Ngelale had cited “medical matters” as the reason for his “leave of absence”, Blueprint gathered that Ngele was only given a soft-landing to quit as ...

 Beyond being a transformative infrastructure project aimed at connecting Nigeria’s southern coastline, the story of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway represents the interplay of competing interests in undertaking monumental economic projects.  When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu came into ...

2025 AFCON Qualifiers: Lookman, Osimhen score as Super Eagles defeat Benin Republic 3-0 The Super Eagles of Nigeria secured a comfortable 3-0 victory over Benin Republic in their opening match of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers. Goals from Ademola Lookman and Victor Osimhen ...

By Ifreke Inyang  Spokesman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Benson Upah, has warned that Nigerians could eventually buy petrol for N5,000 per litre. Upah stated this while reacting to the recent hike in fuel pump price in an interview ...

By Francis Ugwu Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, has announced his decision to take an indefinite leave of absence from his official duties. This was made known in a memo submitted to the Chief of ...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) has countered the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), which recently claimed that Dangote Refinery Limited was being undermined by the actions of the national oil company. MURIC had recently averred that recent changes to the pump price of premium ...

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will remain at the International Space Station until February 2025. Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has landed in New Mexico, wrapping up a three-month test mission that faced technical issues and forced it to leave the two astronauts it carried ...

Super Eagles caretaker coach Augustine Eguavoen says the team’s priority is to secure maximum points against Benin Republic. The Cheetahs defeated the Super Eagles 2-1 in 2026 World Cup qualifier in Abidjan in June. Both teams will clash again in a 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying fixture ...

Following the recent increase in the pump price of petrol and the prevailing food supply challenges gripping the country, economists have warned that the number of Nigerians below the poverty line may soon exceed the 104 million projected by the World Bank in 2023. ...

 By Racheal Ayodele A Chief Magistrate’s Court in Lagos has ordered the remand of a prominent leader in the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Ganiyu Oyedepo, popularly known as Koko Zaria in prison. Koko Zaria faces charges of ...

By John Owen Nwachukwu The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has provided the reason for its decision to declare the result of the 2023 presidential election in the middle of the night. The electoral umpire announced Bola Ahmed ...

By Seun Opejobi Justice Juan M. Merchan on Friday delayed the sentencing of former United States President Donald Trump, in his hush money trial until after the November election. This was after the judge granted Trump a hard-won reprieve as he ...

We had just returned to Nigeria from Ghana and were house-hunting. We found a house we liked and in the negotiation phase. But we had heard also how notorious Lagosians could be, selling the same house to two, sometimes even three different people. And so under the cover of night, we ...

Peter Obi, Labour Party presidential candidate in Nigeria’s 2023 general elections, has called on African leaders to prioritise investment in agriculture as a sure way of tackling hunger and insecurity in Africa. The former Governor of Anambra was speaking as a panellist at an ...

By Seyi Babalola Talented Nigerian singer Tems brought her colleague Ayra Starr on stage for a surprise performance. The two superstars performed together in New York as part of Tems’ ongoing tour. Tems, who is currently on tour in America, also brought American musicians J Cole, John Legend, ...

By Emmanuel Ani Ekiti State Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, has approved a work-from-home arrangement for civil servants in the state. The arrangement is aimed at further cushioning the effect of the current economic situation on workers in ...

SEARCH Daily Post Nigeria NEWS By John Owen Nwachukwu President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has told Nigerians in China the reasons for the recent increase in the pump price of ...

Republican presidential nominee tells Jewish donors that his Democratic rival would ‘totally abandon’ Israel. Israel will cease to exist if United States Vice President Kamala is elected to the White House in November, former President Donald Trump has claimed. Addressing Jewish ...

The Director General of the National Productivity Centre (NPC), Dr Baffa Babba Danagundi, has charged the centre’s state coordinators to become anti-corruption ambassadors by reporting cases of corruption to the nearest office of the Economic Financial and Crimes Commission (EFCC). Danagundi ...

Agency The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, on Thursday, destroyed fake, adulterated and unregistered food, drug and cosmetic products worth about N2.7 billion seized in the South-East. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the products were burnt at the Enugu ...

Nigerians were shocked earlier in the week following the announcement of a new petrol pump price by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL. The NNPCL increased its retail price from N617 to N857 per litre on Tuesday, a development that has worsened the suffering and hardship in ...

Burkina Faso has introduced a new biometric passport without the logo of the Economic Community of West African States, further solidifying its breakaway from the regional bloc. The move comes after Burkina Faso, along with Niger and Mali, cut ties with ECOWAS ...

A 14-year-old boy was charged with shooting four people dead at a US high school, while his father was charged with manslaughter, authorities said Thursday, after the country’s latest outburst of gun violence. The teen faces four felony murder counts after allegedly ...

The scheduled second interrogation of the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, by the police did not hold on Thursday as Ajaero and the NLC Secretary, Emmanuel Ugboaja, who was also invited, did not show up at the police headquarters in Abuja. Our ...

The Federal Government has predicted five-day rainfall that may lead to flooding in 21 states and 123 locations. It also listed seven states that will likely be severely affected. They are Benue, Kogi, Anambra, Delta, Imo, Rivers and Bayelsa states. The flood ...

By Matthew Atungwu The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, says it has supplied Dangote refinery 30 million barrels of crude oil so far. NNPCL said it will still supply the refinery a total of 17.6 million barrels of ...

In July 2014, shortly after the kickoff of Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” in the Gaza Strip – a 51-day affair that ultimately killed 2,251 Palestinians, including 551 children – Danish journalist Nikolaj Krak penned a dispatch from Israel for the Copenhagen-based Kristeligt Dagblad ...

As Dangote Refinery begins local supply of petrol, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ogun State, Otunba Segun Showunmi, has appealed to the industrialist and owner of the refinery, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, to prioritise patriotism and ...

September 05, (THEWILL) – President Bola Tinubu has called on global leaders to “embrace multilateralism and reject protectionism”, as essential steps towards achieving lasting peace, security and stability. Tinubu gave the charge on Thursday when he addressed a high-level meeting on peace and ...

By Abdulrazaq Adebayo Commercial transporters in Ilorin, Kwara State capital on Thursday stopped operations to protest the high cost of petrol for their business. Okada riders, tricyclists and other intra-city commercial transporters ...

By Seun Opejobi Notorious bandit leader, Bello Turji has claimed he and his associates are not afraid of death. Turji said he and his foot soldiers wouldn’t take up arms if they were afraid of death. The bandit leader disclosed this in ...

By Ogaga Ariemu The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has said the recent Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) pump price increase will cause social unrest in Nigeria. This was as TUC kicked against the increase in the pump price of petroleum, ...

By Seun Opejobi Dangote Group on Thursday denied reports that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, has started lifting fuel from its refinery. It was reported that NNPCL lifted petrol from Dangote Refinery and sold it for ...

 Xi Jinping, Chinese President, has promised to provide 360 billion yuan (over $50 billion) in financial support to Africa over the next three years.Xi spoke on Thursday at the opening ceremony of the Beijing summit on China-Africa cooperation.The Chinese leader said China has fought to crush ...

The Russian president claims Kyiv’s bid had an opposite effect, allowing Moscow to accelerate its offensive in eastern Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin says Ukraine’s weeks-long ongoing incursion in Russia’s Kursk region is aimed at slowing the Russian advance in the Ukrainian region of ...

Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume, representing Borno South, has lamented the recent attacks on the resettled communities of Ngoshe, Kirawa, Warabe, Wala, Pulka and even Gwoza town, the Council headquarters, after they were liberated.He has called on the Nigerian military to carry out clearance ...

Here are the top 10 stories making headlines across the country. 1. Nigerian soldiers challenge bandit kingpin, Bello Turji, to a fight, tell him to stop killing civilians (Video) A group of angry Nigerian soldiers have challenged notorious bandit kingpin, Bello Turji, to come out of his ...

KANO—No fewer than 68 persons have reportedly lost their lives to flood recorded in Kano and Jigawa states since the beginning of rainfall sometime in July. Giving the breakdown on the number of casualties, Executive Secretary, Kano State Emergency Management ...

UMUAHIA—A tricycle rider, identified as Amadi Alozie, has killed his mother, as she tried to rescue her grandson from a suspected ritual attack by his father at Umudosi community in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State. Community sources told Vanguard that ...

 By Ochogwu Sunday Transporters and commuters in Abia have expressed serious concern over the hike in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, otherwise called petrol. NAN reports that the Nigeria National ...

By Sunny Green Itodo The Chairman of the Silverbird Group, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, has said Nigeria will host the 2025 Miss Universe beauty pageant if the newly-crowned Miss Universe Nigeria, Chidimma Adetshina, wins this year’s edition. In a statement ...

Authorities in Monterey County have arrested a man suspected of massacring dozens of animals early Tuesday morning in Prunedale, including miniature horses, rabbits and birds, the Sheriff’s Office said. Salinas man Vicente Joseph Arroyo, 39, allegedly began to randomly fire multiple ...

As the war enters its 923rd day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Thursday, September 5, 2024. Fighting At least seven people, including three children, were killed in a Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s western city of Lviv on the border with ...

Over the weekend, news emerged that believed "Russian spy" beluga whale Hvalidmir had died. But perhaps fittingly — considering his mysterious past as a possible foreign agent — the circumstances surrounding his death sound increasingly bizarre. Regina Haug, the founder of animal rights ...