Bombs exploded and bullets rained at St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, yesterday afternoon by gunmen and at the end, 50 worshippers laid dead, signalling the arrival of massacre of the innocent in the South. Those killed included family members, children, and pregnant women. Another ...

Apostle Johnson Suleman of the Omega Fire Ministries, Auchi, Edo State has branded the current government as clueless and useless for “calling known gunmen unknown.” Suleman said this while condemning the attack on innocent worshippers at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State. ...

1. President Muhammadu Buhari, on Sunday night, summoned a meeting of key stakeholders in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the party’s presidential primary election commencing today. The outcome of the meeting is still unknown. 2. It was a black Sunday yesterday as gunmen ...

Following the massacre of worshipers at the St.Francis Catholic Church, Owaluwa Owo, Ondo State, on Sunday, blood donors are needed at the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, where most of the injured victims were taken to. Scores of worshippers were killed while service was ongoing in the church, ...

The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has warned that there is the presence of Boko Haram in the South West. The group believes that the barbaric attack on the St. Francis Catholic Church Owo, that left many worshippers dead, was carried out by Boko Haram and warned strongly that more Churches and ...

After weeks of intrigues, the ruling party is set to elect its presidential candidate at the Eagle Square. While 23 aspirants are challenging to be the candidate, the race will probably turn into a three-horse race between former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, the former Minister of ...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned the killing of worshipers at St Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State. Recall that gunmen had stormed the church on Sunday and killed over 50 worshipers, while several others sustained gunshot injuries. Reacting, CAN, in a statement ...

The Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) has expressed sympathies to the Owo community, the government and people of Ondo State, and the country in general over the attack on worshipers at the St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State on Sunday. ...

A former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has debunked reports that he stepped down from the presidential race for Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Reports had emerged on Saturday that Akpabio had stepped down and endorsed Tinubu. It was reported that Akpabio endorsed Tinubu after Buhari ...

First, i need to let you know that i am a Nigerian and i am proud to be one despite the negative image some bad elements have given the country in the world. Recently a Ghanaian colleague in United Kingdom asked me ''Is Nigeria still the giant of Africa?''. He said that title is no more ...

Sunday Onuoha, a Bishop of Methodist Church of Nigeria, has emerged as the Abia State gubernatorial candidate of African Democratic Congress (ADC) at the just concluded primary elections held in the state. Announcing the results of the concluded primaries, after voting and ...

A member of the House of Representatives, representing Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Kajola/Iwajowa Federal Constituency in Oyo State, Hon. Shina Peller, has said that he has no plan to leave the All Progressives Congress (APC). Peller, an indigene of Iseyin in the Oke-Ogun geo-political ...

Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Rauf Olaniyan, has dumped the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. Olaniyan also said that he has joined the All Progressives Congress (APC). He made these announcements on Sunday. Our correspondent gathered that the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the killing of worshippers at the St Francis Catholic Church, Owa-luwa Street, Owo Kingdom, in Ondo State. DAILY POST earlier reported that unknown men armed with sophisticated weapons stormed the church on Sunday and opened fire on worshipers ...

Ahead of the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential primary election, the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has debunked rumour that he has stepped down for another aspirant. His campaign council made the clarification on his behalf via a statement issued by its Chairman, Richard Akinnola II. ...

Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has expressed sadness over the attack on St Francis Catholic Church, Owa-luwa in Owo, Owo Local Government Area of the state. DAILY POST earlier reported that unknown men armed with sophisticated weapons stormed the church on Sunday and opened fire on ...

1. State governors from the North on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, backed a Nigerian President of southern extraction. The Northern governors urged President Muhammadu Buhari to consider a Southerner as his likely successor in 2023. 2. President Muhammadu Buhari ...

To have a well-balanced, it should begin with having leafy green vegetables on a plate. Green vegetables are a rich dose of vitamins, minerals, and fibre. More interestingly they are low in calories. Health defects like obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, and mental decline have all ...

Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, who is the Chairman of the sub-committee on Security and Compliance for the All Progressives Congress, APC, special convention for Presidential Primary, has guaranteed that the party’s primary poll will be free of hitches. Akeredolu, along by the ...

  Gen. Alexander Madiebo, one of the earliest officers of the Nigerian Army and former Chief of Staff of the defunct Biafra Army, is dead. Madiebo, who fought on the Biafran side during the 1967-1970 Nigeria civil war, died at the age of 90 on Friday. Reacting, Gov. Chukwuma Soludo of ...

Gunmen have allegedly abducted a former Bayelsa State Commissioner for Special Duties in charge of Federal Projects in the state, Mike Ogiasa. Sources said that Ogiasa, who is a cousin of former President Goodluck Jonathan, was kidnapped at Otuogidi in the Ogbia Local Government Area of the ...

The National chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdulahi Adamu has revealed the ruling party would axe the national leader of the party, Bola Ahmed Tinubu over his recent utterances against President Muhammadu Buhari. Adamu disclosed this while addressing journalists on ...

Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State on Saturday emerged as the Bauchi State gubernatorial flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Mohammed, who was the aspirant of (PDP), polled a total of 646 votes out of 650 votes cast in Bauchi on Saturday. Revealing the result, the Returning ...

Socio-political commentator, Shehu Sani, on Saturday, lashed out at President Muhammadu Buhari over his frequent foreign trips. Sani said Buhari was in the habit of traveling abroad when there is a problem in the country. He noted that Buhari travels abroad and return to meet the ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said sensitive electoral materials will no longer be routed through the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, said INEC would no longer keep sensitive electoral materials with the CBN, starting from the ...

National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Osun State axis has issued a 12-day ultimatum to the state to fix the campuses roads. The student body threatened to shut down the state “by hitting the street with thousands of students right proponents” if the government did not meet up with ...

The Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, has explained why he stepped down at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primary to support former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar. Tambuwal withdrew from the race and asked his supporters to vote for Atiku. He has now claimed it was a ...

A member of vigilante group in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja has been lynched over alleged blasphemy against Islam. The incident occured on Saturday at the Timber shed market, Federal Housing Estate, Lugbe Abuja. Details of the incident are still sketchy as of press time. However, it ...

Suspense was enveloping the political space in Abuja on Friday ahead of the 8.00 pm meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC where the issue of a consensus presidential candidate for the party was expected to be discussed. On the shadows of ...

•Ship compartments where drugs are concealed revealed •Peddlers disguise as port officials as cover up •NDLEA arrests 3348.25kg assorted drugs in five months; meets owners of shipping lines As the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency , NDLEA intensifies the war against illicit trafficking of ...

Over 10,000 pastoralists were killed and over two million displaced across the country within the last seven years, the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), has said. It made the disclosure during a security summit the group organized in collaboration with the ...

1. A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has ruled that statutory delegates are constitutionally qualified to participate in all meetings, congresses and conventions of any registered political party in Nigeria. This is coming a few days before the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential ...

A son of Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai Bashir, has disclosed what he will do if the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, wins the 2023 election. Bashir promised to climb two of the highest rocks in Nigeria if Obi wins the presidential election. He ...

The Nigerian Bar Association, Owerri, has lashed out at the Imo State Government over the arrest and detention of Messrs. Chima Emeka Ndukwe, Akoma Jeremiah, Ikedi Amadi and Nze Moses, senior staff of the National Industrial Court, Owerri. The lawyers’ body said it gathered that the detained ...

A late night fire incident has claimed over 20 persons at Sheka, Kano State, DAILY POST learnt.The victims were said to have been burnt beyond recognition. Similarly, Kano Municipal was also thrown into mourning as a night fire incident killed a 35-year-old mother, alongside her three-year-old ...

Former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has denied that he antagonized the ambition of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu to become President Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate in 2014 for national interest. The former presidential aspirant under ...

Some members of the All Progressives Congress, under the aegis of Gaskiya Youth Movement, have asked the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to disqualify Bola Ahmed Tinubu from contesting the 2023 presidential primary of the party. Tinubu, a former Lagos State Governor, is one of the ...

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed the fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) against the Department of States Services (DSS). Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in a judgment, dismissed the suit for lacking in merit and ...

A popular Nigerian cleric, Pastor Adewale Giwa, has disclosed that the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, ahead of the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, does not have the strength to win at the polls. Pastor Giwa who is the Senior Pastor of the Awaiting the Second Coming of Jesus Christ ...

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation Babachir Lawal has cautioned the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu over his recent comments, wherein he glorified himself as the initiator of President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory against an incumbent, Goodluck ...

No fewer than 2.5 million teenage girls and women are wreaked with unwanted pregnancy annually in Nigeria, with over 121 million unintended pregnancies every year, worldwide. A report issued by the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, entitled: “2022 State of the World Population (SWOP)” ...

Former Borno State Governor, Senator Kashim Shettima said some Southerners he described as the biblical Judas Iscariot are working against power shift to the Southern part of Nigeria in 2023. Many have argued that the next president after the incumbent Muhammadu Buhari from the north ...

Ahead of the presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) scheduled to hold between June 6th and 8th, the ruling party has disqualified 10 presidential aspirants. DAILY POST reports that the Chairman of the Presidential Screening Committee and the former National Chairman of APC, ...

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Wuse has remanded Peter Nwachukwu, husband of late gospel singer, Osinachi in Kuje prison. Justice Ngozi Nwosu-Iheme ordered that Nwachukwu remains in custody until the conclusion of his trial. She gave the order despite Nwachukwu pleading ...

Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, on Friday described as ‘rubbish’ reports that he was considering stepping down his presidential ambition for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Reports had emerged that five All Progressives Congress (APC) governors on Thursday night met to discuss that some of ...

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State on Friday said he is not an emperor, in what could be seen as a reaction to the jab by Bola Tinubu, an All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant. Abiodun stressed that he is holding his position in trust for the people of Ogun State. Referring to ...

  An All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential hopeful, Rochas Okorocha, has revealed why some aspirants bought the party’s forms. Okorocha disclosed that some aspirants bought the N100 million APC presidential forms to negotiate juicy ministerial positions. The Imo ...

    Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has dropped his Deputy, Engineer Rauf Olaniyan ahead of the 2023 general elections. DAILY POST gathered from sources close to the Agodi Government House that the Governor has picked ...

A 39-year-old man, Niyi Adeyemo, has accused his wife, Jumoke Bamgbola, 38, of beating him to a pulp during a disagreement at their residence on Love-All Street, Ikosi-Ketu, Lagos State. Adeyemo, who was said to be suffering from arthritis, was admitted to a hospital after the alleged assault ...

Governor Nyesom Wike was technically rigged out of the presidential primaries of the Peoples Democratic party, a former Chairman of the Rivers All Progressives Congress, APC, Igo Aguma has said. DAILY POST reports that he made the claim during an interview in Port Harcourt on ...