Osun State governor-elect, Ademola Adeleke has revealed that Kolapo Alimi, one of the lawyers that represented the incumbent Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, told him that he was robbed during the 2018 governorship election. Four years ago, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ...

Goodluck Opiah, Education Minister, State. By Victor Ahiuma-Young, Joseph Erunke, Luminous Jannamike & Prince Okafor, LAGOS The Federal Government and workers’ unions in various sectors of the economy were literally at each other’s jugular, yesterday, over the five-month long strike embarked ...

A Fulani socio-cultural group, Kulen Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria, (KACRAN), has tasked presidential candidates to fully incorporate livestock development in their policies and programs or risk losing their bloc votes in the forthcoming general elections. KACRAN’s National ...

The Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, has ordered the investigation of Habib Okikiola better known as Portable. The controversial artiste made a revelation in a trending video. Portable announced that he formed the notorious cult groups, One Million Boys and Ajah Boys. The Lagos gangs ...

The professionals under the platform of Coalition of Nigeria Professionals for Good Governance (CNPGG), have called out the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, over a statement credited to him to the effect that the October, 2020 EndSARS protest, was allegedly sponsored by the ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Osun State governor-elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke has said some associates of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, Minister of Interior, worked for him in Saturday’s election. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the election said ...

  The Oyo State House of Assembly has approved the nomination of Barrister Bayo Lawal as the new Deputy Governor of the state. The approval is coming few hours after the Assembly removed the Rauf Olaniyan. The House has on Monday removed Olaniyan, a native of Igboho from office, ...

Ahead of the 2023 election, Reno Omokri, a socio-political activist, has declared that Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate is not a threat to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Omokri said the only threat to PDP’s victory in 2023 is Rabiu Kwankwaso of the ...

By Gbenga Oloniniran   The Oyo State Deputy Governor, Rauf Olaniyan, has been removed by members of the State House of Assembly, following misconduct and a series of allegations levelled against him. Olaniyan was removed by members of the House of Assembly on Monday.The PUNCH gathered that the ...

The national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is yet to congratulate Osun governor-elect Ademola Oyetola. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flagbearer defeated Governor Gboyega Oyetola in a keenly contested battle. The former Senator won in 17 of the 30 local government ...

Legal practitioner, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa has advised Osun governor-elect, Ademola Adeleke to perform well after his swearing in or face rejection later. The lawyer said if the former Senator failed to deliver, the people would vote him out like they did to Governor Gboyega Oyetola. ...

A member of the House of Representatives, Bamidele Salam has claimed that the Osun 2022 gubernatorial election is the most monetised in the history of Osun State. Bamidele, who represents Ede South, Ede North, Egbedore and Ejigbo Federal Constituency in the Green chamber and who was also the ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Bandits have abducted a pregnant woman at Lema community, Mando, opposite Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna State. Seven other persons were kidnapped when the bandits entered three houses around 1:00 am on Sunday. 2. The ...

By Stephen Angbulu   The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Saturday in Katsina, said Nigerians would be more “grateful to God” if they “knew what other countries in Africa were passing through”. This was as he said the emergence of Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima as ...

By GODFREY GEORGE and DEBORAH TOLU-KOLAWOLE Plans are currently ongoing for the inauguration of the campaign council of the standard bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, Sunday PUNCH has learnt. The spokesperson for the PDP candidate, Paul Ibe, made this known in an ...

By LEKE BAIYEWU, TUNDE AJAJA, SOLOMON ODENIYI and HINDI LIVINUS 17th July 2022 The Planning and Strategy Committee of the Tinubu Campaign Organisation has alerted the All Progressives Congress to the possibility of about 192 National Assembly members defecting from the party to other parties ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Doctors who performed the surgical operation on Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, to treat the recurrent pain caused by a fracture in his leg have said they have concluded the procedure and that it was successful. 2. The Independent ...

Senator Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke has been declared the winner of the Osun State governorship election. Adeleke emerged the winner of the election with 403,371 votes. Announcing the winner on Sunday morning, the returning officer for the Osun governorship election, Vice-Chancellor of ...

The police in Lagos have arrested eight members of cult groups over the attack on the convoy of ex-Lagos governor, Bola Tinubu. The incident occurred after the All Progressives Congress (APC) flagbearer returned to the state from Abuja after the presidential primary. The June 19 ambush ...

  Over 10, 000 Nigerians from across the 19 northern States, on Friday, converged in Abuja, to protest the Muslim-Muslim ticket adopted by Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The protesters, under the aegis of All Christians ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is planning to compromise and sabotage the will and desire of the people for a free, fair, transparent and credible electoral process in Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State. PDP, in a statement ...

  More results are coming in from Local Governments in the ongoing governorship election in Osun State. INEC officials have concluded the voting and the results have been sent to the local government headquarters of INEC. DAILY POST reports that the Osun State governorship ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. President Muhammadu Buhari has restated that his farm in Daura, handed to him by his forefathers, is the next thing on his mind after leaving office next year. The President said this on Friday in Daura while speaking to the elected ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) in Nigeria will end July 31. Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye issued a statement after a meeting of the commission on Friday. Okoye noted ...

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have kidnapped two Catholic priests in Kaduna State. DAILY POST leant that the two priests: Reverend Father John Cheitnum and Reverend Father Donatus Cleopas were abducted by bandits at Yadin Gura in Lere Local Government of Kaduna State. In a statement on ...

The arrested Chairman of National Union of Road Transport Worker, Oroki Branch, Osogbo, State of Osun, Kazeem Oyewale has been released. Oyewale was arrested about three hours ago by soldiers who stormed his base at the motor park at Ojurin, Old Garage, Osogbo, State of Osun. Information available ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, has restrained the Osun Security Network, codenamed Amotekun Corps from participating in Saturday’s gubernatorial election. The court order also mandated the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to make use of ...

A Kaduna-based activist, Prof. Suleiman Dansoko, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to be anxious to leave office until he cleans all the mess he created for Nigeria. President Buhari had told party supporters, who paid him Sallah homage in Daura last week, that governance is too ...

Omeiza Ajayi, Abuja The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has reacted to viral videos of Permanent Voters Cards PVCs allegedly buried underground in Imo state, including inside the compound of an unnamed high-profile person. INEC National Commissioner in charge of Information and ...

An activist, Deji Adeyenju, has appealed to leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to go and beg the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike. According to Adeyanju, the PDP has failed to be fair to Wike in spite of his loyalty to the opposition party. He explained that the Rivers ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has gone to seek the disqualification of Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, from contesting the 2023 presidential election. The main opposition wants the court to compel the Independent ...

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Sunday, decided to go the MKO Abiola way, which is testing his popularity with Muslim-Muslim ticket for the forthcoming general elections. The former Lagos State Governor settled for a fellow Muslim and ...

The Osun State governorship election is here. The D-day fixed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is Saturday, July 16, 2022. The political parties and their gubernatorial candidates have done their homework and now the decision of who is to be governor of Osun State for ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has raised alarm that Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State could be exposed to massive rigging and unprecedented vote buying. A member of the CDD Election Analysis Centre ...

An Ikeja Special Offences Court has convicted the embattled Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James, alias Baba Ijesha, of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old minor. NAN reports that Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, in a two-hour judgement on Thursday, convicted Baba Ijesha of indecent treatment of a ...

As preparations for the 2023 elections continue to heat up in Nigeria, Nigerian celebrities seem to be playing active roles in sensitising fellow citizens to decide who becomes the country’s next president. Most celebrities who have openly declared support are divided among the trio of Peter ...

The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso has reportedly picked Pastor Bishop Isaac Idahosa as his running mate for the 2023 elections. The party disclosed this in a tweet on its Twitter handle on Thursday “Our VP Pastor Bishop Isaac Idahosa from Edo ...

An Oyo State High Court has dismissed a suit filed by Mr. Rauf Olaniyan, the state Deputy Governor. The Oyo State House of Assembly had a few weeks ago initiated an impeachment process against the deputy governor. DAILY POST recalls that Olaniyan later approached the court to stop the ...

The Osun State All Progressives Congress faction   backed  by  the  Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola,   was on Wednesday  hopeful  that the Federal High Court in Abuja would disqualify the state Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, as the APC governorship candidate in Saturday’s election. The Chairman ...

By Stephen Angbulu   The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Wednesday, urged youths to acquire knowledge not towards getting government jobs as there are no “jobs in government anymore.” He also urged youths to acquaint themselves with history to avoid making the same ...

By Adelani Adepegba, Friday Olokor, Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Tope Omogbolagun, Segun Adewole, Victor Ayeni, Ted Odogwu, Ikenna Obianeri, Matthew Ochei, Lilian Ukagwu, Abiodun Nejo, Godwin Isenyo, El-ameen Ibrahim, Peter Dada and Olaide Oyelude   Loyalists of the All Progressives Congress ...

  Maverick entertainer and activist, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, has asked Nigerians to fight for freedom and confront oppressors ahead of the 2023 election. Charly Boy said this via his Twitter page while querying the capability of current Nigerian leaders in office. ...

Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, says the only way Nigeria can change is when old politicians are removed from office. Obi said this during the party’s mega rally on Wednesday in Osogbo. The presidential candidate said that it is only a vote for Alhaji Lasun Yusuf ...

Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, a former presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has said the electorate will punish insensitive politicians in the 2023 general election. He was reacting to comments making the rounds on Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s choice of Kashim Shettima, a Muslim ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. President Muhammadu Buhari has told his immediate family, particularly, his children that he is not leaving anything for them to inherit. Buhari, who is expected to bow out of office as President in May 2023, insisted that the only ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has told his immediate family, particularly, his children that he is not leaving anything for them to inherit. Buhari, who is expected to bow out of office as President in May 2023, insisted that the only legacy he hopes to bequeath to them is proper education. The ...

  Jimi Agbaje, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general elections has denied defecting to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Reports emerged on Monday that Jimi had joined the ruling party to support APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, ahead of the 2023 ...

  The National Population Commission (NPC) will recruit three million ad hoc staff for the 2023 population census. Abdulmalik Durunguwa, NPC National Commissioner representing Kaduna State made the disclosure. The official spoke on Wednesday in Kaduna at a town hall meeting on the ...

The Lagos House of Assembly has denied a report that it secretly passed a Sharia Bill to get Northerners support for the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu. The Chairman, House Committee on Information, Security and Strategy, Mr Setonji David, made this ...

By Sodiq Oyeleke   A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ebun Adegboruwa, has highlighted some implications of presenting a Muslim-Muslim ticket by the All Progressives Congress. In a post on Wednesday, the human rights lawyer highlighted 10 “grave” implications while faulting the APC’s Muslim-Muslim ...