Chairman of ‘The Osun Progressives,” a faction in the All Progressives Congress in Osun State, on Sunday, said no reconciliation yet between the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola; and the State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola.   The Osun Progressives, backed by Aregbesola during the last ...

•Says Obi, Kwankwaso, Osinbajo would ‘ve been good, if… •Notes Nigeria’s in big trouble; it’s corruption selling nomination for N100m •Laments silence of elders to get Nigeria working again By Levinus Nwabughiogu, Abuja Convener of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Professor Ango ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Catholic Priest, Rev. Father Odia, who was abducted by gunmen early hours of Sunday in Edo State has been killed by the abductors. He was kidnapped at Ikabigbo community of Etsako West local government of the State while on his way ...

… says we followed due process in issuing David international passport By Jimoh Babatunde The Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service, Isah Jere Idris, has affirmed that  Mr Ukpo Nwamini David, the person at the heart of the alleged organ harvesting involving former Deputy President ...

Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, has boasted of victory in the coming July 16 governorship election, saying defeat is never an option for him in the contest. Oyetola said that various efforts his administration had put into the development of the state would make the victory at the poll a ...

Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has approved the recruitment of additional 500 corps into the State Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN) codenamed Amotekun. This is contained in a statement issued by the State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Dr Wasiu Olatunbosun, on Sunday ...

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, and former governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi has identified bad governance, Nigeria’s economic woes, frustration and hopelessness as some of the factors fuelling drug abuse among the youths in the country. In a message to mark the ...

Zamfara Government on Sunday advised individuals to obtain guns and defend themselves in the height of the resurgence of insecurity in the state. The state government, in a statement by the Commissioner for Information, Alhaji Ibrahim Dosara, said:” the government has henceforth, directed ...

87-year-old leader of Yoruba self-determination group, Ilana Omo Oodua, Prof Banji Akintoye, moved from Nigeria to Benin Republic shortly before the arrest and detention of a leading arrowhead of the Yoruba Nation campaign, Sunday Adeyemo, alias Sunday Igboho, in the francophone country. KAYODE ...

Former governor of Kano State and presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) for the 2023 election, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has called on the citizens of the country to reject the candidates of the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party. He said they ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Armed men suspected to be bandits have murdered a Catholic priest, Rev Fr. Vitus Borogo, in Kaduna State. It was gathered that the incident happened on Saturday at the Prison Farm, Kujama, along Kaduna-Kachia Road, after a raid on ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed that he made a mistake while picking his vice when he ruled as a civilian head of state in 1999. Obasanjo said this at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, Ogun State, while fielding questions from secondary school students ...

A civil rights organization. Center for Reform and Public Advocacy, has given the Inspector-General of Police a 48- hour ultimatum within which he should arrest and initiate criminal prosecution against the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, for allegedly ...

A global business intelligence, Economist Intelligence Unit, EIU has ranked Nigeria’s commercial capital city, Lagos the world’s second-worst liveable city. EIU according to its recent publication, ranked Lagos 171 out of 172 countries in the list of its global liveable cities in the world. The ...

Amidst tears, the remains of the late Ekwueme singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu have arrived in her home town in Amakpoke Umuaku community, Abia for burial. DAILY POST reports that Osinachi, who died on April 8, 2022, was reported to have suffered domestic violence prior to her death. Until her death, ...

Former Political Adviser, and country representative to Uganda Joel Mudaiwa Abel, on Saturday, said the 2023 general election is far from being realistic going by all manner of evils, committed by Nigerians. He said some bandits and insurgents may take over some states, making it difficult for ...

Say, unemployment chased them out of Nigeria Regret agents deceived them and abandoned By Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo Young ladies from the northern part of the country who travelled to the United Arab Emirates ( UAE) in search of the proverbial greener pasture have cried out for help saying ...

Last week, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) won the Ekiti State Governorship election in a landslide. The party won 15 out of 16 local governments, breaking a 23years jinx in the state. With the victory, that is the first time transition will be happening within the party. At the ...

There are indications that the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may lose its strongholds and voter base in Rivers State in the 2023 general elections. The imminent upheaval is premised on the expressed dissatisfaction with the outcome of the just concluded PDP presidential primaries ...

Ekiti signals bad omen – 26,000 security men couldn’t stop vote buying; INEC fails to ensure secrecy of the ballot By Luminous Jannamike, Abuja Although the atmosphere in which the June 18, 2022 governorship election in Ekiti state was conducted has been adjudged to be generally peaceful; solid ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, Presidential Candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), on Friday visited Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State. He met Wike less than 24 hours after Peter Obi, Presidential Candidate of the ...

The Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, are strategising on how to win votes from the South-West, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. This followed the emergence of a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as the presidential candidate of the ruling ...

The two nominees are Akinwumi Samson Sowore and Prince Joseph Adeboboye Ologbese. In a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Richard Olatunde, the names of the nominees had been forwarded to the State House of Assembly for screening, clearance and confirmation. Sowore is ...

Ahead of the 2023 general election, hundreds of members of the All Progressives Congress, Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressive Grand Alliance in Umuahia East Constituency of Abia State, have joined the Labour Party (LP). The party men claimed the economic and infrastructural deficits ...

An All Progressives Congress (APC) Chieftain in Oyo State on Friday alleged that members of the state House of Assembly are only active when they are financially induced. Isaac Ajiboye Omodewu, Chairman of the party and a former Commissioner in the state made the allegations in Ibadan while ...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Friday raided a property belonging to K Salam Construction Company, a military contractor and recovered N175,706,500; $220,965; G-Wagon; 2022 editions of BMW and Mercedes Benz cars; customized mobile phones; several ...

One Mr Omotayo Oni has been arrested in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State for allegedly stealing cables inside the Deeper Life Bible Church Headquarters. The Ogun So-Safe Corps told DAILY POST Friday that Oni was arrested around 5:30 am on Wednesday when its officers from ...

A human rights lawyer, Malcolm Omoirhobo, on Thursday, caused a stir due to his mode of dressing at the Supreme Court in Abuja. Photos circulated on social media showed Omoirhobo dressed in a lawyer’s robe mixed with other materials that made him look like an African native doctor. The lawyer ...

Unknown gunmen in the early hours of Friday attacked the Okehi Police Area Command killing an inspector on duty. DAILY POST gathered that the gunmen, who were fully armed, attacked the police command at about 12:30 am on Friday. It was also learnt that part of the area command office was razed ...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Friday clarified report that it recovered N170 million cash, $220,965, G-Wagon from the residence of Nigerian Ambassador to Benin Republic, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai. Reports had it that the ICPC recovered N1.85 ...

Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh, has emerged as the deputy governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the forthcoming 2023 general election in Rivers State. Tonto Dikeh made this known in a post on her Instagram page. She thanked the governorship candidate of the ADC, ...

Following the recent approval by the Supreme Court to allow female Muslim students to wear hijab in public schools, a Rivers State-based lawyer, Barrister Mathew A. Abakpa has vowed to storm the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt next week in his complete Juju attire. Recall that the Supreme ...

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, ABUJA PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, has told the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson that there have been apprehension in admitting on bail detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu because he jumped jumped bail the previous ...

National Assembly members, who failed to win their parties’ tickets for the 2023 elections, are set for a showdown with state governors and their aides. Findings by our correspondents showed that in states such as Benue, Kebbi,  Zamfara, Delta, Ekiti and Ogun, governors or their loyalists ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, have been arrested and detained in the United Kingdom over alleged organ harvesting. The metropolitan police confirmed this on Thursday. ...

The United Kingdom Metropolitan Police have formally charged two Nigerians with conspiracy to facilitate the travel of another person for organ harvesting. The suspects were arrested and charged over their plan to bring a child into the country to allegedly harvest the said child’s organs. The ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said the recent protest letter by Justices of the Supreme Court to the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Mohammed, further confirms the alleged plots by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Government to emasculate the judiciary. ...

  In this interview with GODWIN ISENYO, the Spokesperson for the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, an umbrella body of the people of the southern part of Kaduna, Luka Binniyat, explains incessant attacks on the people and payment of ransom since 2020 The abductors of over 30 worshippers in ...

Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State has berated the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke, saying he does not possess the capacity to govern the state. Oyetola, who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the July 16 gubernatorial ...

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi has disclosed the motive behind his visit to the Governor of Rivers State and former presidential aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party, Nyesom Wike. Obi had met with Wike on Wednesday behind closed doors at his private residence in ...

Increase in food prices have pushed consumer price inflation in the United Kingdom to a 40-year high of 9.1% in May, which is the highest rate out of the Group of Seven countries (G7) and one which underlines the severity of the country’s cost-of-living crisis. According to Reuters, the analysis ...

The governorship candidate of African Democratic Congress in Saturday’s Ekiti State governorship election, Wole Oluyede, on Wednesday expressed regret for joining politics, following the turn of events in the poll. Oluyede, an Australia-based medical doctor, who said he had lost hope in the ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Labour Party, LP, yesterday, said that the party’s presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi and his New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, counterpart, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, are still in talks to field a joint ticket for the 2023 ...

The Ondo State Police Command on Wednesday said it arrested no fewer than 14 suspected criminals in different parts of the state. Some of the suspects were identified as Ojo Rotimi, Tosin Omoniyi, Jimoh Dele, Uwanfor Destiny, Babajide Moses, Tope Gbenga, John Simeon, Akinniranye Blessing, Jude ...

Pastor William Kumuyi, General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry, has shared his opinion on the fielding of either Muslim-Muslim ticket or Christian-Christian ticket for the 2023 presidential election. According to him, Nigeria’s political leaders need to consult and conduct ...

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, ABUJA PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has lamented that there is a plot by wicked people to put the country under religious stress. The President in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said that the country’s ...

The UK Health Security Agency on Tuesday recommended that some gay and bisexual men at higher risk of contracting monkeypox should be offered a vaccine to control an outbreak. A total of 793 cases of the chickenpox-like disease have been recorded across the country as of Monday, the public ...

Oluwatobiloba Jaiyeola The World Health Organisation has announced the launch of a new mobile application that would help curb skin cancer. The application, according to the WHO, is to help protect individuals from excessive ultraviolet exposure, a key cause of skin cancer and other ...

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress, Yekini Nabena, has warned the presidential flagbearer of Labour Party, Peter Obi, not to rely on any support from his ‘Obidient’ movement ahead of the 2023 election. Nabena disclosed that the former Anambra governor would ...