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 ...

Multi-award-winning Nigerian singer, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2baba, has met candidates of the three major parties participating in the July 16 Osun governorship poll and urged them to prevail on their supporters to eschew violence during the poll. Idibia met, at different times, with ...

The Inter-Party Advisory Council on Wednesday expressed displeasure over the just concluded Ekiti State election, which it said, was a daylight robbery and a slap on democracy. The council almost disclosed that its observation team witnessed a brazen act of vote-buying by agents of political ...

The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Adamu Abdullahi, on Wednesday, met with the party’s senators. Adamu arrived at the National Assembly complex some minutes past 2 pm and moved to the office of the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, for a brief meeting before the general meeting. ...

The National Union of Pensioners, Ogun State Chapter, has issued a 14-day ultimatum to Governor Dapo Abiodun to meet their demands on 150 months of unremitted contributory pensions. The pensioners also threatened to embark on an unprecedented protest if the governor fails to meet their demands ...

No fewer than 22 Senators on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress may dump the APC for the main opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP, a chieftain of the ruling APC, Femi Fani-Kayode has hinted According to a statement issued via the verified Twitter handle of Fani-Kayody on ...

The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, Obafemi Awolowo Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife branch, on Wednesday, challenged the Association of Resident Doctors in the hospital to approach the court of law for redress, instead of embarking on industrial action over the alleged harassment ...

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Hon. Yekini Nabena, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC to step up its game and make adequate protection for its server, alleging that the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party PDP ...

By Miftaudeen Raji Against the backdrop of public outcry, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has agreed to extend the ongoing Continuous Voters’ Registration (CVR) exercise by 60 days. Earlier, the House of Representatives had last Wednesday urged INEC to extend the deadline ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra has described the comments by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), that the group was responsible for pipeline vandalism in the country as “laughable, disgraceful and fallacious”. The secessionist group reminded the President that his Western ...

The Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Rauf Aderemi Olaniyan, has shunned the state House of Assembly by refusing to respond to the five-count allegations levied against him by the lawmakers. DAILY POST recalls that some members of the House of Assembly had last week Wednesday petitioned the ...

Ossai Success, an aide to Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has stated that the fast-rising singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, should be taken to an alcohol and drug rehabilitation centre. This was in connection to a video clip circulating on social media, where the singer ...

Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, has raised the alarm on the impact of the ‘Obidient’ movement on the chances of the ruling All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party at the 2023 presidential elections. The ‘Obidient’ movement refers to the supporters of the presidential ...

  The Federal Government of Nigeria has stated that the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) remains N165 per litre. The government also advised Nigerians against panic buying of petrol, assuring that over 2 billion litres were in various depots. On Tuesday, the ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The House of Representatives has rejected a motion seeking to cause the National Assembly to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto on the amendment made to Section 84(8) of the Electoral Act 2022. The motion was earlier moved ...

  Nigerian billionaire Ned Nwoko has said that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi cannot be the next President of Nigeria. Nwoko, husband to Nollywood actress, Regina Daniel, said this during an interview with BBC Igbo, adding that Obi will change ...

  Three Senators belonging to the All Progressives Congress (APC) have resigned their membership of the ruling party. The lawmakers are Senators Ahmad Babba Kaita (Katsina North), Lawal Yahaya Gumau (Bauchi South), and Francis Alimikhena (Edo North). Whilst Babba Kaita ...

  The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun, has replied Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a. Sunday Igboho over his position on Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s title. Igboho had condemned the monarch for conferring chieftaincy titles on the Kano helmsman and his wife, Hafsat. They ...

  By Emmanuel Uzodinma and Eunice Udeh Amidst worsening insecurity in Nigeria, the Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Province and Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, His Grace, Most Rev. Emmanuel Chukwuma has warned that a revolution is ...

  The Nigerian Senate has received the executive communication with the nomination of six names as replacements for ministers that resigned to contest the presidential election. In a letter that was read by the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawa,n on Tuesday, ...

  Former Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu has made fresh claims over why the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did not pick Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, as his running mate. According to him, Wike talks too much and does not ...

  Shehu Sani, a former Kaduna Central Senator has called on the founder of Household of God Church, Reverend Chris Okotie to revive his Fresh Democratic Party. Sani was reacting to Okotie’s call that all 2023 presidential aspirants should step down and allow him emerge ...

  The All Progressives Congress, APC, has submitted the full list of its senatorial candidates to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. In the list, there are 15 candidates who are either ex-governors or incumbent governors. The Majority Whip, Orji Uzor ...