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Peru’s Congress voted to oust President Martín Vizcarra on Monday in an impeachment trial over corruption allegations, the second effort by lawmakers to remove him in a matter of months.   The opposition-dominated Congress put forward 105 votes to oust ...

United States President Donald Trump has fired Defense Secretary, Mark Esper.   The American leader made the announcement on Monday. Trump said Christopher C. Miller, director of the National Counterterrorism Centre, will be acting secretary of defense. The appointment is ...

Dan-Aji community of Faskari local government area of Katsina state, where 26 girls were abducted and recently released by bandits, said it paid ransom to secure their freedom.   The village head of Dan-Aji, Lawal Dogara, disclosed this to newsmen ...

  The Ogun State Police Command said it has arrested two young men,  Michael Hammed Azeez, 20, and Adeola Ogunseye, 22, for allegedly kidnapping and gang-raping a 14-year-old girl. According to the Ogun police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspects were ...

A 42-year-old caretaker, identified as one Mr. Matthew Ahiwe may soon be charged to court in Umuahia, the capital of Abia State to prove his innocence over the allegation that he was responsible for the death of one Chigozie Eluwa. ...

A priest who was shot twice outside his Greek Orthodox Church in Lyon was the victim of an angry husband whose wife he was sleeping with.   Nikolaos Kakavelakis, a 52-year-old father of two, was initially feared to be the ...

An elder in the Church of Pentecost, Ghana, Mr Kenneth Amoabeng and his wife, Mrs Vera Amoabeng, are proud parents of five new borns. According to reports, the couple had been married for eight years without a child. The five ...

Scotland has become the first part of the UK to ban the smacking of children after new legislation came into effect. Changes to the law giving children the same protection from assault as adults were passed by the Scottish parliament last year ...

A final year Law student at the Delta State University (DELSU), Oleh Campus, identified as Jeffery Tenumah Omatseye, last Friday, drowned in a swimming pool.   The incident was said to have happened at a hotel located in nearby Irri ...

Niger State Governor, Abubakar Bello has tested positive for COVID-19.   The Governor announced this on his twitter handle on Monday. He tweeted: “I have tested positive to #COVID19. However, I am asymptomatic and have gone into isolation.” Details shortly… ...

Scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), aka petrol may hit Nigeria soon as oil workers on monday, commenced a nationwide strike. The order was given by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN. The letter to ...

The federal government has released the passport of End SARS advocate, Modupe (Moe) Odele.   Immigration officials blocked the activist from boarding an international flight on November 1. Two days later, the legal practitioner went to retrieve her passport but ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, to ensure the enrolment of corps members in the National Health Insurance Scheme. The NYSC Director-General, Shuaibu Ibrahim, made the disclosure on Monday in Abuja.According to him, the ...

Popular Nigerian photographer, Ogidika Kelvin aka OK Effect, who was arrested alongside Hushpuppi, and Woodberry in Dubai has been released. In a video released by Dubai police after the raids that got them arrested, the police revealed that 12 people ...

First lady Jill Biden will make a little history of her own if her plans to continue teaching go through – she’ll be the first first lady to maintain a full-time job.   During President-elect Joe Biden’s eight years serving as ...

A man reportedly called off wedding plans with his fiancee through a text message. This is definitely not a good way to break up with anyone.   A livid Twitter user and friend to the lady shared the story of ...

Bolivians celebrated the Day of Skulls, or Dia de las Ñatitas, over the weekend, a colorful tradition rooted in ancient indigenous beliefs that is meant to bring good fortune and protection by honoring the dead.   Known as ‘ñatitas’ the skulls ...

Donald Trump will never accept that he lost the election, even if his legal challenges fail. Sources close to the White House say he will even refuse to attend the inauguration of a rival he sees as a ‘phoney President’, as he ...

This is the moment a Professor giving an online class is snuck up on from behind and immobilised by a gang of burglars.   The incident took place in the south-eastern Brazilian city of Sao Paulo on Wednesday night. Two ...

Prominent Republicans in the US Congress, on Sunday, urged President Donald Trump to “fight hard” and not concede to Joe Biden in the race for the White House.   They claimed that Trump’s allegations of fraud must be investigated. Some ...

The Osun State Police Command has arrested two administrators of EndSARS WhatsApp group in the state. According to sources, Daily Post learnt that the police are still hunting for some individuals in the EndSARS WhatsApp group. Recall that Nigeria youths ...

This is how the most colossal and fragile ego on the planet deals with losing the US election: he does not deal with it at all.   My uncle’s speech late on election night wasn’t just entirely mendacious from beginning ...

The Lagos State Government has ordered the release of 253 persons arrested by police over their alleged roles in the unrest following the #EndSARS protests.   Mr Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), Attorney-General (A-G),said his office had determined that there was a ...

The commanding officer of 65 Battalion of the Nigerian Army, Salisu Bello, said contrary to widespread reports, soldiers did not shoot #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Toll Plaza on October 20, 2020, instead, it was his men that were attacked. ...

Grandex Supermarket in Bodija, Ibadan, was this afternoon gutted by fire. The store is owned by Florence, wife of late former Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi. No casualty or injuries were recorded as at press time. The inferno reportedly ...