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  Ahead of the 2023 general elections, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has said he cannot abandon his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike because he has proved to be a trusted and dependable ally. Ortom stated this at a ...

  The Lagos State Government has directed the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) to begin to arrest and impound unpainted commercial vehicles from Monday across the state. The General Manager of LASTMA, Bolaji Oreagba, said this in a statement through the ...

  The Tanzanian passenger plane that crashed on Sunday claimed 19 lives as of the time of filing this report while 24 survivors were rescued. This was confirmed by Precision Air in a statement issued shortly after the crash which ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to put former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s image on the redesigned naira notes. Atiku said Obasanjo’s face should be on the naira note ...

  About 1,789 persons in Kaduna State were abducted by bandits in six months this year, the state has revealed. Presenting the security situation report for 2022 to the state government on Friday, the state Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security ...

  A yet to be identified man in his thirties has been electrocuted while allegedly destroying a campaign billboard in the Chal­lenge area of Ibadan, Oyo State. The Man died while attempt­ing to destroy one of the cam­paign billboards of ...

  Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a blind Nigerien and his son with cannabis and exol-5. The blind Nigerien, Bukar Haruna, 52, and his son, Saka Haruna, 30 were arrested in Katsina State while ...

  A Nigerian man has taken to social media to reveal that someone erroneously paid N698,000 into his bank account and he does not know the person. The guy known as Luke said he relocated to the UK and while ...

  A Nigerian lady has reportedly dumped her boyfriend after he was sacked over a huge sacrifice he made to fund her vacation to Dubai. According to @poojamedia who took to Twitter to relay the story, the boyfriend committed N2 million fraud ...

  Residents of Oke-Ata, Soyoye, Ibara Orile, Rounder and other communities in Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State are currently under the ‘siege’ of kidnappers, Daily Post reports. The affected communities, including those situated around the Alamala Army Barracks, appear ...

  Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has promised to return missionary schools in the state to their original owners. Lalong made the promise when the Association of Papal Knights and Medalists in Nigeria paid him a courtesy visit at ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has said Nigerians should farm what they eat or die hungry. Buhari said Nigerians have no reason to complain of hunger. He explained that his position was responsible for the decision to ban rice importation. Speaking with ...

  No fewer than 13 people were killed when a fire tore through a crowded nightclub, in Kostroma, Russia in the early hours of Saturday. According to CNN, the officials said the blaze broke out at about 2:30 a.m in ...

  Kenya Airways flights were disrupted on Saturday as a strike by its pilots demanding better working conditions grounded over a dozen planes, affecting thousands of passengers, the country’s transport minister said. The airline, part-owned by the government and Air ...

  The Federal Medical Centre, Abuja has expressed worry over the congestion of its mortuary caused by unclaimed corpses in the hospital. The management of the hospital said it is making plans to conduct mass burial for the eight unclaimed ...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday secured the nod of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to publish an order of interim forfeiture of 40 landed properties belonging to a former Deputy Senate President, Sen. ...

Some group of individuals said to be Yoruba Nation agitators have allegedly attacked a team of soldiers around Oju-Ore axis of Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government, Ogun State. Daily Post gathered that the incident happened on Thursday when the secessionists were on ...

  A 28-year-old hairstylist, Chiamaka Nmonye has been docked for allegedly stabbing her apprentice, Joy Jacob with a scissors during an argument over sweeping of her house. Nmonye of Utako village, Abuja, is charged with causing grievous hurt before the ...

  Two Ibadan nurses, security men docked for cutting flesh from corpse An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court, sitting at Ibadan on Friday, granted bail of N200,000 each to two nurses and two security operatives working with Ibadan Central Hospital, Ibadan, ...

  The Nigeria Customs Service in Adamawa says it has intercepted bags of foreign rice concealed in a PMS tanker and Urea fertilser concealed in black polythene bags, among other banned items worth over N144 million. The seizures were made along the ...

  Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has increased the number of his Special Assistants on Political Unit Affairs from 100,000 to 200,000. He announced the increase while inaugurating the second and last batch of the initial 100,000 assistants from the Rivers ...

  Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has expressed concern over the alarming rate of emigration of Nigerians to foreign countries describing it as a “worrisome phenomenon”. The Comptroller of Immigration Service (NIS) in Enugu State, Mr. Joachim Olumba, made the disclosure ...

  Four sick men have pleaded guilty to drugging their wives and sharing them around so they could “fulfil wife-sharing fantasies”. The foursome, from Singapore, were said to have sedated their wives and even filmed the creepy exchange of s3xual ...

  A young mum has died after sneaking to the top of a waterfall that was closed off to the public to take a selfie. Amanda Franco dos Santos, 26, the mum of a five-year-old, tragically passed away after she plunged ...

Armed robbers have invaded the staff quarters of the University of Ibadan, killing Mr Vincent Odinko, an occupant of one of the buildings. The sad incident happened last Friday night, according to reliable sources. The night marauders broke into the ...