Kidnappers of 50 members of the GSM communication Union in Zamfara State have reduced the ransom placed on their victims to 60 million naira as against 145 million naira earlier demanded. DAILY POST reports that the bandits had on Monday demanded the sum of N145 ...

    The Nigeria police have clarified a viral video of a Yahoo boy allegedly hypnotizing a German woman in the Badagry area of Lagos State. In the viral video, the white woman was said to have regained her senses and started an argument after she was ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the vice-presidential candidate of the party for the 2023 elections will be unveiled in the next few hours. National Publicity Secretary of the party, Debo ...

  Fiery Enugu Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has declared that the Labour Party Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi can never be Nigeria’s President. DAILY POST reports that Mbaka made the declaration at his Adoration Ministry, Enugu Nigeria. Mbaka, who did not ...

Ifreke Inyang   Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has said he went into the race for the presidency in 2023 under the All Progressives Congress, APC, just to hone his skills as a politician. Although he lost out in the primary election that ...

Former Kano Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has denied receiving gratification from Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike. A statement Saturday night by spokesman, Ibrahim Adamu said the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) national leader was embarrassed by the bribery claim. The former Kano Central Senator ...

Ishola Oludare The League of Imams and Alfas in Ogun State has said there was not any reason for a Muslim to attack any church under any guise. The Islamic group maintained that those who killed many worshippers at the St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo ...

  By Musliudeen Adebayo   Oyo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that there is no vacancy at the Agodi secretariat in 2023. The party urged opposition political parties in the state not to waste their money. The PDP ...

Nsikak Nseyen Oyo State House of Assembly has levelled five allegations against the state Deputy Governor, Mr Rauf Olaniyan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 24 lawmakers signed the petition, which was read during plenary. In the petition titled: ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has put together a committee to screen its vice-presidential candidate for the 2023 presidential election. Even though the party is yet to officially unveil the vice presidential candidate, it was ...

No fewer than 10 young men have been reportedly killed in Sagamu area of Ogun State as suspected cultists went on rampage in the past few days. Residents of Sagamu, who spoke with our correspondent anonymously, said they could no longer sleep with their two eyes closed. On ...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has approved the immediate commencement of the payment of outstanding gratuity to pensioners in the state. The governor also approved the payment of monthly pension arrears as well as death benefits for Retirees from the public service. This ...

Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, the Chairman of the South West Governors’ Forum and the Governor of Ondo State, has warned that the people of the Southwest will not allow any unprovoked attack on the area under any pretext. While condemning the Owo incident as “one too many,” Akeredolu ...

Ochogwu Sunday Two frontline members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senate Majority Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi; and Adamu Aliero, have officially defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), NAN reports. The formal defections of the two APC senators ...

Don Silas The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party for the 2023 general elections, Mr Peter Obi, on Monday, stated that the unemployment of 80 million Nigerians was responsible for the widespread poverty in the country. Obi spoke at a one-day ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The Catholic Diocese of Ondo has stated that a mass burial for the victims of the terror attack on St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, last Sunday will hold on Friday, June 17, 2022. According to the church, 40 people ...

Seun Opejobi   The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu has distanced himself from a purported 2023 campaign manifesto in circulation. Tinubu said the purported document in circulation was not his 2023 campaign ...

Ifreke Inyang Bishop Rt Rev Oluwaseun Aderogba of Jebba Diocese, Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion and his wife have been kidnapped. They were abducted by unknown gunmen on Sunday evening along Ogbomoso/Oyo road. The Bishop’s Chaplain who escaped from the ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Mass defection rocked Kogi Local Government chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) weekend as over 1,000 members of the ruling party in the state defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The defection was led by one ...

Wale Odunsi   The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of attempting to scuttle citizens’ desire to obtain voter’s card   A statement at the weekend by Debo Ologunagba, the PDP National Publicity Secretary ...

  Amarachi Okeh A Consultant Urologist, Dr. Gabriel Ogah has advised men who are battling premature ejaculation to seek appropriate medical treatment instead of taking a Viagra-type drug, noting that such medications cannot cure the health condition. The expert stressed that drugs ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Terrorists, on Saturday, reportedly released five male and six female abducted Abuja-Kaduna train victims. The Publisher of Desert Herald, Tukur Mamu, who served as a mediator, confirmed the development on Saturday. ...

  Sen. Bola Tinubu, a former Governor of Lagos State, has said as the country marks this year’s Democracy Day, the spirit of June 12 would expand to become the spirit of Nigeria and national greatness of their dreams. He said Nigerians should remember and honour June 12 ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has called on Nigerians to pray for all victims of terrorists attacks across the country, stating that he lives daily worrying about those in the custody of kidnappers and other criminal elements. In his speech on Sunday morning to mark the ...

  The names of the 11 released Kaduna-Abuja train victims have been released. Terrorists had abducted over 60 train passengers in March 2022 but released the Managing Director of the Bank of Agriculture a few days later. They also released a pregnant woman who was ...

  The hide and seek game for who is to be selected as presidential running mate to former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, and 2023 presidential candidate of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is again a make or mar political decision for the party. Such a ...

Anozie Egole   Eighteen months after the Federal Government announced the reopening of the Seme border following a 14-month closure, smuggling is once more thriving there, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. When the Federal Government announced the closure of the Seme border in August ...

  Tunde Ajaja TUNDE AJAJA examines the practice of politicians and their associates spending millions to buy presidential forms only to pull out of the race at the last minute At any time in Nigeria’s history, whether in the years of economic boom or now that a whopping 16.82 per ...

Tunde Ajaja, Oluwafemi Morgan, Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Deborah Tolu-Kolawole and Abiodun Sanusi 11 June 2022 Ex-VP, PDP fear regional divisions in S’East, North may work for APC candidate Former Lagos gov moves to douse Muslim-Muslim ticket tension The leadership of the ...

Don Silas Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has insisted that Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi, is his son. Tinubu stated this while commending Bello for mobilising the consciousness of youths during his campaign. He ...

Wale Odunsi The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared a couple, Onyinmiebi (Miebi Baraza) and Beatrice Bribena, wanted. An alert by the anti-graft agency urged persons with information about them to contact any of its offices across ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. An Akure High Court, yesterday, sentenced three killers of Mrs Funke Olakuri, daughter of the Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, to death, either by hanging or firing squad. The fourth accused, Awalu Abubakar, was, however, ...

John Owen Nwachukwu   Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Friday evening, visited former Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi. Tinubu met the former Rivers State Governor at his Abuja ...

John Owen Nwachukwu   Governor Mallam Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has slammed those making religion a focal point in governance. The Governor said he does not care if the President and his vice are all Muslim or all Christians, insisting that ...

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State on Friday told Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, that he learnt a lot from the little lecture he gave him. Bello stated this when Tinubu visited him in Abuja, barely 72 hours after the former Lagos ...

  Samson Folarin The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, visited the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. Asiwaju had earlier visited the President at his residence in the Presidential Villa and afterwards decided to ...

The Cybercrime Section of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Thursday, submitted reports of forensic investigations led by Whyte Dein to corroborate their case against singer Azeez Fashola a.k.a Naira Marley, charged with credit card fraud before the Ikoyi Federal High ...

John Akinfehinwa   A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lokoja Local Government, Ibrahim Sulaiman has mocked Governor Yahaya Bello over his defeat in the just-concluded presidential primaries of the Party. According to Sulaiman, the ...

Maina Maina   Scores of suspected members of the Islamic State of West Africa (ISWAP) terrorist group have been neutralised by the Nigerian military after they blocked the Maiduguri-Damaturu road wreaking havoc on commuters on Thursday. It took massive ...

John Owen Nwachukwu   A former Kaduna Central District Senator, Shehu Sani, has provided an insight into the latest terrorists attack in Southern Kaduna. The rampaging terrorists were said to have attacked the area on Wednesday killing over 30 people. ...

  All the political parties in Nigeria have conducted their presidential primary elections. June 9, 2022, was the deadline set by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for completion of primaries and submission of presidential candidates. The ruling All ...

By Abdul Seye After weeks of intrigues and uncertainty, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) elected a former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu as its presidential candidate. The 70-year-old politician was able to get northern governors behind ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Mr. Jude Ezenwafor, the factional presidential candidate of the Labour Party, yesterday, announced his withdrawal from the contest. This was contained in a letter he conveyed to the national leadership of his faction of ...

  About 24 hours after the victory of Bola Tinubu at the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential primary, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has been silent. DAILY POST observed that Osinbajo has not issued any congratulatory message to Tinubu on his emergence as the APC ...

Musliudeen Adebayo   Two major political parties in the South West geo-political zone, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have conducted their primaries for various elective positions ahead of the 2023 general ...

  Inhabitants of Adara community in the southern part of Kaduna State have said that about 32 persons lost their lives in an alleged helicopter-aided attack by terrorists, who razed houses, including Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in the area. Adara leaders said more ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Reactions have continued to trail the emergence of former Lagos Governor, Bola Tinubu as the winner of the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential primary elections. Tinubu garnered 1,271 to beat Yemi Osinbajo ...

  Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello Presidential Campaign Organisation has faulted the emergence of Sen. Bola Tinubu as the Presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC). They stated this in a statement on Wednesday titled, ‘Yahaya Bello remains the hero ...

Temitayo Jaiyeola AT least 10.3 million Nigerians have been issued National Identification Numbers in the first five months of 2022, data obtained from the National Identity Management Commission’s portal have shown. This brings the total number of Nigerians with NINs to 82.73 million ...

Deji Lambo Justice Abdulazeez Anka of a Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos State, has sentenced a Nigerian-American-trained surgeon, John Nweke, to 27 years imprisonment for fraudulently obtaining goods from Konga Online Shopping Limited. The goods reportedly include 19 expensive ...