By Adedayo Akinwale:The Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has explained that the name of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was not included in the campaign list based on the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari.The Spokesperson of the Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo ...

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, says Iyorchia Ayu, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), received N1 billion from one of the presidential hopefuls in the party.The governor made the allegation during a media chat on Friday.He said Ayu is corrupt, and that the chairman cannot ...

A zookeeper miraculously dodged death after a 16-foot crocodile launched an attack on him in front of horrified tourists.Crocodile handler Sean Le Clus was ferociously attacked while sitting on the back of the 660kg beast before a second one also targeted him.The 68-year-old endured a terrifying ...

Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike on Friday held a media chat for almost two hours on Friday during which he addressed many issues on the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP).Here are major takeaways from the chat that held many spell-bound:1. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led the foundation for the crisis ...

Prince Kassim Afegbua, former Commissioner for Information in Edo state on Friday accused Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa of betraying his colleagues in the Southern Governors Forum by working for the presidency to remain in the North.Speaking in an interview with DAILY INDEPENDENT, Afegbua a ...

The Peoples Democratic Party in Zamfara state on Friday declared Alhaji Dauda Lawal Dare winner of the governorship primary election rerun in the state.The governorship primary poll rerun was conducted after a Court nullified the primary election that produced him as party’s flagbearer for the ...

An Unnamed Man, said to be an undergraduate of a university within Anambra State has allegedly killed his father and mother. The Incident happened in Nnewi, Anambra State, and the already decomposing corpses were found in their room on Thursday night. A Source said the corpses were discovered ...

(1) (2) (3) (Reply) (Follow) (Go Down) Family Seeks Justice As Soldiers Reportedly Kill Their 25yr Old Daughter (Video) by officialwdhtv: 2:35am On Sep 22https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWjV9lkIoR0Family seeks justice as soldiers reportedly kill their daughter while chasing a car carrying illicit ...

Ukraine’s ministry of defence has shared a horrific image of one of its soldiers recently liberated from Russian captivity.In the photograph shared on Friday, Mykhailo Dianov, a Ukrainian soldier, looks emaciated.“Ukrainian soldier Mykhailo Dianov is among the fortunate ones: in contrast with some ...

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Friday confirmed that four persons died while one was rescued in the building collapse at Oye Sonuga Street, Palm Avenue, in Mushin, Lagos.The NEMA South West Zonal Coordinator, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has advised Nigerians to elect candidates capable of taking the country to greater heights.Sanwo-Olu told them to shun those who give bogus statistics, but consider flagbearers with clear-cut plans.He spoke in Ikeja on Friday at a Special Prayer ...

The federal government, in 2021, engaged the services of a US firm to recover illicit funds allegedly traced to the account of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).The firm was also contracted to retrieve such funds from the accounts of Ayodele Fayose, former ...

Some chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State have been abducted in an attack along Kaduna-Kachia highway in Kaduna State.Daily Trust gathered that the attacked happened at a place called Tashar Icce, which is some meters from Kujama community in Kajuru Area of the ...

The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party took a new dimension on Friday with the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, making a series of allegations against the Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, and the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, among others.While the PDP is waiving the olive ...

The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP National Youth Vanguard, has accused the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike of working for the All Progressives Congress, APC Presidential Candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.The group also accused Governor Wike of using the call for Senator Ayu’s ...

The Federal Government is currently gearing up to put the Transmission Company of Nigeria, up for sale, Saturday PUNCH has learnt.The fresh move comes on the heels of stalled negotiations between the Federal Government and the National Union of Electricity Employees as the latter threatens to shut ...

Following weeks of anxiety and serial postponements, the presidential campaign council list of the flagbearer of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was released with several notable names of party chieftains missing.The 422-man list has names of political heavyweights ...

The Appeal Court in Abuja has rejected Governor Gboyega Oyetola’s request to relocate the sitting of the tribunal to Abuja.The Chief Registrar Court of Appeal, Bangari Umar, in a letter titled: RE: PETITION NO, EPT/OS/GOV/01/2022, ADEGBOYEGA ISIAKA OYETOLA & ANOR V. INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ...

Daniel Bwala: Wike playing God — PDP will survive if he leavesDaniel Bwala, a spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign, has accused Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, of playing the role of God in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).Bwala spoke on Friday during an interview with ...

 Daniel Bwala, the spokesperson of the Atiku Campaign Organisation, has accused Governor Nyesom Wike of frustrating efforts by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to micro-zone its presidential ticket to the southeast.Bwala made the comment on Friday, only hours after the Rivers Governor briefed the ...

Presidential Candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has solicited mass pity for the Peoples Democratic Party PDP candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, saying the latter’s presidential ambition is fast slipping away due to his altercation with Rivers state ...

By Deji  ElumoyePresident Muhammadu Buhari has expressed the readiness of Nigeria towards the realisation of inclusive and sustainable development goals for the country.The President spoke yesterday in New York at the Strategic High Level Event to mark the Official Launch of the Nigeria Integrated ...

By Fidelis DavidThe Coalition of Southern and Middle Belt Youth Leaders Assembly (COSMBYLA), the umbrella body of all the youth groups in the South-east, South-west, South-south and Middle Belt region, yesterday, commended Ondo State Governor, Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN) who said the state ...

By Olawale Ajimotokan:Intelligence gathering and military operations have resulted in the arrest of 210 suspects in the Niger Delta for crude oil theft.The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this yesterday in Abuja at a meeting with officers of the Nigerian National ...

By Charles Ajunwa, Chuks Okocha, Adedayo Akinwale and Blessing IbungeGovernor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State yesterday openly mocked the leadership of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and similarly waved aside speculations that he could be ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. The federal government has told the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to obey the National Industrial Court ruling and call off its seven-month strike. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, gave the ...

By Okon Bassey in UyoOver 400 women in Akwa Ibom State have benefited from cash and starter packs donations courtesy of the Wife of the State Governor, Dr. Martha Udom Emmanuel.The donations were made by Mrs. Emmanuel under her pet project, “Family Empowerment and Youth Reorientation Path ...

By Olusegun Samuel:Monday’s night gas leak reported at a pipeline operated in Bayelsa by the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) has been brought under control. The gas leak under very high pressure and resulting noise from the discharge has ceased.The development followed a directive by National Oil ...

By George Okoh:Fourteen persons have reportedly lost their lives when their boats capsized in Fada village of Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.According to a local source, the victims were on their way to a neighbouring town to sell their farm produce when the accident occurred.The sources ...

By  Gbenga Oloniniran  The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, carried out a social experiment by disguising as a civilian and driving at about 11:50pm through police checkpoints.Hundeyin said he passed through the first and second checkpoints, adding that his “papers ...

By  Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis 23rd September 2022The closed-door meeting between the Presidential Candidate of All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and the Pentecostal Bishops Forum of Northern Nigeria in Abuja came under scrutiny on Thursday night.The social media pages of the former ...

By Ifreke Inyang  The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has claimed the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, offered him a senatorial ticket when they met in London, United Kingdom.Wike revealed this during a media chat on Friday morning.The ...

By Ochogwu Sunday Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister and a staunch supporter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, says the Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has destroyed the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.The human rights lawyer stated this ...

By Francis Ugwu The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has said it was impossible to emerge the president of Nigeria without winning any of Lagos, Kano and Rivers states.He said this on Friday while fielding questions in a media chat with some journalists in Port Harcourt.Governor Wike was ...

By Chido Nwangwu:It was Carl von Clausewitz, the famous German military theorist, who brought forward his remarkable definition of war as “the continuation of politics by other means.”At a press conference, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, the New York Attorney General Letitia James, metaphorically, ...

Ondo State government has clarified that Irokun, Obinehin, Idigbengben and Araromi seaside communities are in Ondo and not Ogun State0ndo state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mrs. Bamidele Ademola-Olateju, has disclosed that Irokun, Obinehin, Idigbengben and Araromi communities are ...

The Attorney-General of the federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami has said Nigeria is making concerted efforts in addressing oil theft including spending enormous resources on pipeline surveillance security through the regular Armed Forces budgetary spending and payments to civilian ...

By Chuks Okocha and Blessing Ibunge:Akwa Ibom State Governor and Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council, Udom Emmanuel, says the crisis in the party has festered because some people do not act in ways that agree with the things they say. Emmanuel, who stated this ...

The Ijaw Youth Consultative Forum and Sagbama indigenes residing in the Federal Capital Territory have congratulated the newly appointed Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Major General Barry Tariye Ndiomu (retd).In a statement issued on Thursday, Comrade Preye Ebizimor, ...

Emmanuel Ugwu-Nwogo:As governorship candidates in Abia State continue their consultations with interest groups and political blocs ahead of  electioneering for 2023 general election, Abiriba community in Aba has thrown its weight behind the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prof Uche ...

Eighteen communities spread across three local government areas of Akwa Ibom State, Tuesday, celebrated respite from the plague of perennial flooding of over 20 years, as the state government inaugurated the 10Km IBB and Environs Flood Control Project as part of activities to mark the state’s 35th ...

The Supreme Court has struck out a suit instituted against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), seeking to enforce the zoning and rotatory policy in the 2023 presidential election.In a unanimous judgement delivered by Justice Adamu Jauro on Friday, the court struck out the suit on the ground of lack ...

Presidency planning to ‘impose’ Yusuf Buhari’s doctor as CMD of National HospitalBy Umar AuduForces at the Presidency are making frantic efforts to compromise the process of appointing a substantive Chief Medical Director, CMD, of the National Hospital, Abuja, DAILY NIGERIAN gathered.The Aso Rock ...

…He Should Be Asked To Step Aside Until After Elections — Babatope…I Won’t Leave PDP For Anybody, Governor Wike VowsMore stakeholders in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday called on Iyorchia Ayu, embattled chairman of the party, to resign from his position if he truly loves the party ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. .The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has expressed determination to fully participate in political activities that would culminate in 2023 general elections. To this end, it has inaugurated a Committee on Political Strategy ...

This yam porridge recipe popularly known as Asaro in Nigeria is so delicious. You will want to eat it always. This video gives a detailed easy to follow steps plus the recipe for pepper chicken sauce. https://youtu.be/g72bolresbc Ingredients: Yam Bell peppers (Tatashe) Paprika ...

Tinubu's Certificates Emerges As Nigerians Point To Discrepancies In Peter Obi's Own (Photos)Yesterday, the internet was shut down after INEC released the certificates of all contending aspirants for the presidency in 2023, with the LP's candidate, Mr Peter Obi, at the center of attention as INEC ...

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has said that the All Progressive Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Senator Ahmed Tinubu, is a man of integrity.Ganduje said Tinubu’s presidency in 2023 would accelerate national growth and development, NAN reports. He stated this on Wednesday while ...

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has replaced his Ekiti State counterpart, Kayode Fayemi, as the Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum.Tambuwal assumed the position on Thursday at the National Economic Council meeting in Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, after Fayemi transferred the baton of office to ...

The Zamfara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has commenced a mini congress to add women to the list of delegates ahead of Friday’s governorship primary election.Addressing newsmen at the party’s secretariat in Gusau, the State capital, the State chairman of the party, Dr. ...