President Bola Tinubu has announced that he will be shelving the national broadcast earlier scheduled to hold on Thursday morning in commemoration of the nation’s June 12 Democracy Day. A terse statement from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, OSGF, on Wednesday gave this indication. It noted that Tinubu was […]
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President Bola Tinubu on Thursday described the opposition, including coalition movements, as dead, stressing that, as currently composed, only empty vessels are left behind. As if mocking the opposition further, the President said he is optimistic about more defections to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). He said that as many as are willing to
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Human rights lawyer, Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, has faulted the proposed bill seeking to make voting mandatory in Nigeria, stating that he would rather be imprisoned than obey such a law. Agbakoba, who made this declaration on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television on Monday, condemned the attempt of the National Assembly to enforce compulsory
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By Matthew Atungwu The Governorship Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the 2023 general elections in Bayelsa State, Udengs Eradiri has urged the suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara to beg the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesome Wike to ease the political tension in Rivers State. Eradiri claimed that the incompetence of
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By Ogaga Ariemu Global crude prices crashed by 6 percent on Wednesday as the tariff war between the United States and China escalated. OilPrice.com data showed that WTI crude futures slumped by around $4.01, or 6.7 percent, to $56.06 per barrel, while Brent tumbled to $59.33 per barrel as at the time of filing this
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By Musliudeen Adebayo A former governor of Oyo State, Victor Omololu Olunloyo is dead. Olunloyo, the first Ibadan indigene to rule Oyo State as governor, died in the early hours of Sunday. He died about three months to his 90th birthday. Olunloyo ruled the old Oyo State between October and December 1983. Sources close to
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 By Matthew Atungwu US customs agents on Saturday began collecting President Donald Trump’s unilateral 10% tariff on all imports from many countries, with higher levies on goods from 57 larger trading partners due to start next week. DAILY POST reports that the initial 10% baseline tariff took effect at US seaports, airports and customs warehouses
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By Matthew Atungwu Many protesters on Saturday converged in Washington, DC, and across the US, part of some 1,200 demonstrations that were expected to form the largest single day of protest against President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally, Elon Musk since they launched a rapid-fire effort to overhaul government and expand presidential authority. The
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By Matthew Atungwu At least three women were injured and several fires broke out in a Russian air attack on the southern Ukrainian region of Mykolaiv late on Saturday. In a post on the Telegram messaging app, regional Governor, Vitaly Kim, said the attack, which happened a day after least 19 people, including nine children,
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The General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries International, Apostle Johnson Suleman, has boasted that there is a tendency for his critics to be killed if they speak ill of him in his church situated in the Auchi Area of Edo State. Suleman sparked controversy with the statement in a video circulating on social media on
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