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 ...

From Lateef Dada, OsogboA petrol attendant with Mobil Filling Station, Ikire, in Irewole Local Government Area of Osun State, Adeshina Ayomide, has confessed that he sponsored the killing of Fatai Adigun, the manager of the filling station, to cover up a N2,170,000 loot.The Osun police command who ...

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Faruk Yahaya, yesterday warned those fueling crises in various parts of the country to desist from such unpatriotic acts.The army chief gave the warning at the closing ceremony of the Chief of Army Staff Third Quarter Conference 2022 held at the Army Headquarters ...

EKITI STATE PDP PLEDGES UNCONDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR ATIKU... Passes vote of confidence on AyuThe Ekiti State chapter of the People's Democratic Party, ( PDP) has pledged its unconditional support for the presidential aspiration of the former Vice President of Nigeria and the PDP presidential ...

By Kingsley Nweze:There was jubilation in the camps of the military on the frontlines in Borno State following the surrender of a senior member of Boko Haram, Bashir Bulabuduwaye to troops of the Nigerian Army, resulting from their renewed onslaught in the Lake Chad area.Security sources said ...

By Onyebuchi Ezigbo:Ahead of next year’s general election, Catholic bishops have urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure that technology is transparently deployed in order to increase the confidence of the people in the electoral process.In a communiqué issued at the ...

A social political group in Oyo state met on Thursday 16th of September in Ibadan, at the behest of their founder Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide, to outline content, marketing strategies and other plans to propagate the candidature of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar towards electoral success .This was contained in ...

  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 ...

 Listen to me guys, physical attraction will always be relative.Some women like their man with a little bit of belle, while some others will give anything to have a man well built with muscles in all the right places.Most guys will go for the big butt and manchester, that is their attraction point, ...

Ruling party presidential running mate Kashim Shettima has clarified that he only said his principal Bola Tinubu will be ruthless like Sani Abacha if elected president next February and not hospitable as previously reported. “I never attributed hospitality to Abacha in my speech. I did a rundown ...

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signs abortion ban into lawRepublican Gov. Jim Justice on Friday signed into law a ban on abortions at all stages of pregnancy, making West Virginia the second state to enact a law prohibiting the procedure since the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling overturning its ...

A pro Yoruba agenda and loyalist of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chief Remilekun Tijani Usman, has challenged both the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo and Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola to openly declare their supports for Tinubu’s presidential ambition, saying their silence is ...

Spectacle as Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide whooped up support for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar at the Southwest stakeholders meeting.It was meant to be an ordinary flying visit to Oyo State to avail the Southwest Stakeholders of his noble strides and further curry their support towards the 2023 presidential ...

A former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olabode George lamented that the party has nothing to campaign against the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the So Suth-West.The PDP chieftain made this assertion on ...

POLICE ARREST TWO OVER ALLEGED RAPE OF LADYOfficials of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) early Saturday morning arrested two men for allegedly raping a 21-year old dancer inside a Nissan Almera 2017 model in Alausa Business District, Ikeja.The suspects, Solomon Barry, 37, and Bright Omega, 36, were ...

A man identified as Ifeanyi Akeme and his accomplice, Chinedu Enyinnaya, have been arrested for a§§aulting a police officer along Okota Road, Cele Bus stop, Lagos.According to a statement by the spokesperson of the Lagos police command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the police officer identified as ...

 The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, on Thursday said no authority can stop the planned rally of his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi in Lagos.Sowore made this known via his social media platforms while reacting to a lawsuit filed by 10 lawyers who ...

By Adibe Emenyonu:The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has extolled the exemplary life of late Osaguona Teddy Ogie, lauding his outstanding contributions to the development of society.Obaseki gave the eulogy at the service of songs/vigil mass for late Ogie held at St. Paul Catholic Church in ...

Lagos State Police Command @LagosPoliceNGPOLICE ARREST TWO OVER ALLEGED RAPE OF LADYOfficials of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) early Saturday morning arrested two men for allegedly raping a 21-year old dancer inside a Nissan Almera 2017 model in Alausa Business District, Ikeja.The suspects, ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday said it might appeal the court judgement ordering it to accept and publish Godswill Akpabio’s name as the candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) for the 2023 Akwa Ibom North/West Senatorial District election.The commission however ...

Leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in South-West have cautioned the people of the region against intra-ethnic gang-up against its presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on 2023 polls.The chieftains of the party, led by its National Vice President, South-West, Isaac Kekemeke; its ...

By Olusegun Samuel:Operatives of the Ekeki Police Divisional in Bayelsa State have rescued a nine-year-old boy, Godday Simon Aprebo, allegedly chained to a pole by his step mother over allegation of being a wizard.The step mother and biological father have accused the boy of using voodoo against ...

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 ...

 The man, while speaking to a televangelist whom he and his wife had visited for counseling after she found out he cheated on her, said he did it to make her lose weight.According to him, when he first met his wife in 2017, she was slim, which was one of the reasons he loved her, but after they got ...

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 ...

From Oluseye Ojo, Ibadan  The kingmakers in the Oyo Traditional Council, known as  ‘Oyo Mesi’ have shortlisted 10 candidates among 65 princes that applied to be the next Alaafin of Oyo The stool of Alaafin became vacant on April 22, 2022 when the immediate past Alaafin, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi ...

A former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, Today, opened up on why he is supporting calls for the resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu.Chief George, PDP Chieftain in Lagos said his support for the call became imperative to ensure ...

From Timothy Olanrewaju, Maiduguri Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has approved the appointment of Baba Bura Usman as the state’s new Accountant General.The appointment was announced in a statement by the spokesman to the governor, Malam Isa Gusau, on Thursday.The statement said Baba Bura ...

By Lukman Olabiyi, LagosA youth and women group within the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the PDP New Generation, has held that the party’s flagbearer, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is the only presidential candidate capable of resetting Nigeria.The spokesperson for the group, Princess Nikky Onyeri, ...

 From Priscilla Ediare, Ado Ekiti  The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Ekiti State chapter, has called for greater involvement of youths in governance, urging the incoming administration of Hon Biodun Oyebanji, kicking off from October 16, to give it a priority.The youth body advocated ...

 Ibadan on Friday lost an outstanding and distinguished Yoruba man, Elder Karimu Oladele Latunji, to the cold hands of death.According to sources, the exemplary Ibadan man died this morning at the age of 92.The death of K. O. Latunji comes almost two days after his friend, Kola Daisi, celebrated ...

By Ifeanyi Nwannah A Federal High court in Gusau, Zamfara State has nullified the primary election that brought in Dauda Lawan Dare as the Peoples Democratic Party’s Governorship candidate ahead of the 2023 general elections.The Presiding Judge, Justice Aminu Bappa explained that the court granted ...

By Wale Igbintade:Lagos State Special Offences Court yesterday sentenced a 52-year-old man, Akin Isaac, to 21 years imprisonment for defilement of his daughter.Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo in her judgement sentenced Isaac to 21 years imprisonment following his plea of guilty to a one-count charge ...

 A Nigerian-born lawyer in the United Kingdom (UK) has revealed there may be political or other factors for the continued detention of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, in the UK.Speaking without disclosing his identity with The Guardian last week, the lawyer said: “He’s being treated ...

By Laleye Dipo:TThe New Nigeria Political Party (NNPP) presidential candidate for next year’s election, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has urged Nigerians to reject the trio of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) standard bearer; Alhaji Atiku Abubakar (PDP), and Peter Obi of the ...

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 ...

 Nigerian-born American professor, Uju Anya and TV broadcaster, Piers Morgan, have been trading words over her comments on the late Queen Elizabeth II.Uju took to her Twitter handle last Thursday to describe the Queen as the "chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire." shortly after the ...

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has ordered the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation and its subsidiaries to ensure that section 4 of the East-West road, spanning from Eleme Roundabout to Onne junction, is fixed without delay through the Tax Credit Scheme.He said that ...

Court Refuses To Stop Labour Party's Presidential Rally In Lagos As Lawyers Sue Peter Obi, Datti Baba-Ahmed, OthersTen lawyers have dragged the Labour Party’s Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, and his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State, seeking ...

 A man identified as Marcus Timothy has been called out for r@ping his 13-years-old step-daughter in Ikere Ekiti, Ekiti State.According to a source, the victim’s mother caught the suspect in the act and informed a few people about the ¥gly incident but she later took a U-turn and pleaded that no ...

 From Lateef Dada, Osogbo A group of NGOs on Thursday decried the delay in the process and passage of disability law in Osun State.The Society for Life Changers and Good Parental Care (So-Life), Festus Fajemilo Foundation and Community Action Initiative for Self Reliance, at a press conference ...

A former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has called for the resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, saying that the position should be filled by a southerner. According to George, the present arrangement in the party which has the ...

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 ...