Former special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on prosecution, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla has asserted that the ruling party in Cross River State, the All Progressives Congress, APC, has been fractured beyond redemption. He also stated that the party had completely ...

Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has emerged the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the 2023 general election. Atiku clinched the much coveted ticket during the presidential primary of the main opposition party held on Saturday in Abuja, the ...

A former Minister of State for Defence, Sen. Musiliu Obanikoro, has lost the All Progressives Congress (APC) Lagos West Senatorial primaries ticket. Obanikoro lost to Mrs. Idiat Adebule, a former deputy governor of Lagos State. Recall that Obanikoro’s son, Rep. Babajide Obanikoro ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has commenced its 2023 National Convention to elect a presidential candidate for 2023 general elections. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the convention stated at 6.02 pm with the National Anthem. 774 national delegates are expected to vote in the ...

BENIN CITY – FORMER National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on Saturday emerged as the senatorial candidate of the party for Edo North senatorial district. He was returned unopposed as his rival, Francis Alimikhena who is the current senator from the ...

The former vice president and presidential aspirants, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Governor of Rivers state, Nyesome Wike and former Senate president, Bukola Saraki, have arrived the venue of the Peoples Democratic, Party, PDP. The opposition party had scheduled today to elect its presidential ...

Amidst speculations of dollar rain by Presidential aspirants, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have arrived at the Velodrome of the MKO Abiola Stadium Abuja to monitor proceedings. Over a dozen officers dressed in their official red overcoats with EFCC boldly written ...

Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 2,100-year-old farmstead while conducting excavations in the Galilee region. According to CBN News, the farm dates back to the Hellenistic Hasmonean period before Jesus Christ was born. The Hasmonean Dynasty, a Jewish dynasty, ruled over ancient Judea ...

A teacher who was suspended after showing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad to pupils during a religious class lesson is to be allowed to return to his job because he did not mean to cause any offense, a report into the controversial incident has concluded. The teacher, who is not being named, ...

Humanity merely survives and hardly thrives whenever reason recedes into disuse. With the marginalisation of reason, primordial instincts and unconverted id drive human actions. And when humans invest their interests in religion in this arational condition, they reap the dividend of ...

When the newly sworn-in Governor of Oyo State, His Excellency Seyi Makinde, announced in his inauguration address that he would be donating his monthly salary to the teacher pensioners’ fund, little did the people of Oyo State know that this token was just the beginning of what his administration ...

There was pandemonium in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Saturday as over 20 persons scrambling for free food and gifts in a new generation church reportedly died in a stampede. The Nation reports that the church had invited members of the public for its fourth edition of ...

As the socio-political atmosphere becomes charged ahead of the 2023 general elections, an Imo born political stalwart, Engr. Augustine Okere on Saturday expressed concern over the consequences of not zoning the Presidency to the Southeast. He said the Igbos have done everything in the country to ...

1. The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday, postponed its presidential primaries to June 6th and 7th. This is coming barely two hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) accepted appeals by political parties to extend the dates for the conduct of primary elections by ...

The lawmaker representing Kogi West in the National Assembly Senator Smart Adeyemi has cried out over the alleged threat to his life and that of his family. Senator Adeyemi in a statement he personally signed on Friday evening, noted that he had been told not to run for the Kogi West Senatorial ...

  Former Governor of Anambra State and a 2023 presidential aspirant, Peter Obi, has responded to the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, who questioned his integrity after he (Obi) decided to leave the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Peter Obi had on Wednesday said recent ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the deadline for political parties to conduct primaries. The commission made this in a statement on Friday. The electoral umpire extended the deadline after meeting with the leadership of the 18 registered ...

Femi Gbajabiamila, Speaker, House of Representatives, has won the All Progressives Congress, APC, ticket for the sixth term, unopposed, for Surulere Federal Constituency I. The primary election was held on Friday at Akerele Primary Health Centre, Surulere, amid tight security ...

1. All Progressives Congress, APC, House of Assembly aspirant eyeing the ticket of Qua’an Pan South State Constituency of Plateau, Hon. Na’anyil Magdalene Dakogol, has been kidnapped. The spokesperson of the Plateau Police Command, Ubah Gabriel, confirmed the development, saying the commissioner of ...

1. Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra State and running mate to the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, has withdrawn from the presidential race. Obi, who had gone round the country to seek the support of delegates for the presidential primary of ...

Retirees across the southwest states have taken a swipe at Governors in the zone for owing them N242 billion in gratuities and pensions. During a zonal council meeting in Akure, Ondo State, the retirees under the banner of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, chastised governors for shirking ...

Reactions have trailed the resignation of Peter Obi as member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential. DAILY POST had reported that Obi had on Wednesday announced his resignation from the opposition party. He said recent developments within the party made it practically impossible to ...

Prophet Bisi Olujobi of Wisdom Church International in Lagos says former Governor Bola Tinubu will lose his presidential bid. The cleric noted that his monthly prophecies “as ordained by God”, revealed events that will happen in Nigeria soon. In a statement on Wednesday, he declared: “Asiwaju ...

Barely three days to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Convention slated for 28 and 29 May, to elect its presidential candidate, an aspirant and former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has dumped the party. Obi, who revealed this in a letter addressed to the party’s National ...

Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris has urged the people of Uvalde to gather more courage following the unfortunate incident of the mass shooting which has left 20 people dead at Robb Elementary School, while assuring them of support and fervent prayers from all leaders. Harris, who ...

1. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday arrested Rochas Okorocha, an All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant. Operatives of the commission took over his Abuja premises on Tuesday after the former Imo Governor allegedly refused to honour an invitation. 2. A ...

I have observed that Toyota cars products are very popular in Nigeria. It is used by every tom, dick and harry. Infact, most mechanics do have one problem or the other repairing other brands but it seems they are all good at repairing totota. If you are abroad, they want you to send toyota home, ...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday stormed the residence of former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, Channels TV reports. The anti-graft agency operatives stormed the residence of the former governor in the Maitama area of the Federal Capital ...

Popular Nigerian Comedian Mr Macaroni has taken a swipe at Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state. Macaroni on Monday described Sanwo-Olu’s administration as the worst ever government in Lagos State. He made the statement while recounting how he was brutalized and dehumanized ...

Nollywood actor Aremu Afolayan has called out Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, describing him as a pretender and not a man of God. Afolayan called out Osinbajo after he changed 6500 Dirham in Dubai for N1 million, decrying the state of the nation. According to him, he thought Osinbajo would effect ...

Terrorists who attacked and kidnapped the 28 March 2022 Abuja-Kaduna bound train passengers have threatened to, within seven days, start killing the passengers in captivity if their demands are not met. They called the government to, as a matter of urgency, release their children allegedly ...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has dissolved the State Executive Council. The dissolution takes effect from today, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. According to a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media, the Chief of Staff to the Governor and Senior Special Assistants have also ...

1. The All Progressives Congress, APC, has issued a revised timetable of activities for its governorship, State House of Assembly, Senate and House of Representatives primary elections. According to a statement signed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, the governorship ...

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has issued a revised timetable of activities for its governorship, State House of Assembly, Senate and House of Representatives primary elections. This was contained in a statement signed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka. ...

Full list of those who emerged as House of Representatives candidates on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State has emerged. DAILY POST reports that there are fourteen House of Representatives seats in the State. The constituencies are spread across the three ...

Irked by the death of Deborah Samuel, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, who was gruesomely killed over alleged blasphemy, 13 Muslim groups, under the auspices of Muslims United for Peace and Justice, have demanded justice for the victim. The groups advised the State ...

1. The All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, postponed the screening of all the presidential aspirants scheduled to take place today, Monday, May 23 indefinitely. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Felix Morka, in a statement issued Sunday, said a new date for the screening ...

As political parties enter the decision week where delegates will determine flag bearers for the 2023 general elections, some presidential aspirants – in both the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – are set to stand down, considering the last minute political ...

HUMAN beings do hideous things. And they visit these horrible things to their kind under the pretext that they are doing so on God’s behalf. Or that they are fighting for Him. In 1984, the stellar investigative writer, David Yallop, made literary waves. He published an explosive book entitled: ...

Legal practitioner, Inibehe Effiong has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to release an advert executive, Baron Nnamdi. Nnamdi was arrested over an “offensive 2023 election messages” on two billboards in Enugu State. In a statement, Effiong said the reasons given by the ...

• 92 confirmed cases, 50 suspected incidences in 12 countries There are concerns as monkeypox, for the first time, spreads worldwide, rattling the World Health Organisation (WHO), United States (U.S.) and United Kingdom (U.K.) WHO, yesterday, said the recent outbreaks reported across 12 ...

ABUJA—THE All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, postponed indefinitely, the screening of its presidential aspirants earlier slated for Monday, May 23. Though no reason was given for the alteration of its timetable, the party has been consistent in violating its timetable and schedule of ...

As the 2023 general elections gather momentum, the South-East appears not close to realizing its ambition of producing President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor or a Vice President. It could be recalled that the National Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the ...

The Emir of Kastina, Abdulmuminin Usman, says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has the cognate experience required to become the next president of Nigeria, come 2023 The monarch made the remark when the vice president paid him a courtesy call to his palace on Saturday in Kastina. The emir said: ...

Seven days to the presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), there is palpable anxiety over the speculation that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu may dump the ruling party at the federal level if the exercise, scheduled for May 29 and 30, is manipulated against him. Tinubu is one of the ...

Last winter’s sports season had just begun, and the epidemiology staff at Nevada’s second-largest health district were busy calling the parents of high school athletes who’d tested positive for COVID-19. A state mandate required unvaccinated or traveling athletes to get tested weekly. A nasal swab ...

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Almost a week after operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) nabbed the embattled Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, for allegedly diverting N80bn from the country’s coffer, tongues are still wagging, with many Nigerians expressing shock over the startling ...

Two additional persons have been rescued while one more body was recovered under the rubbles of the collapsed storey building which occurred at Freeman Street, Lagos Island, on Saturday. This puts the number of those rescued at three while two were recovered dead so far. The figure was ...