Politics

United States Senator, John McCain who died just over a week ago at 81, was buried on Sunday at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. A military flypast was performed with the squadron one plane short, to symbolise the dead senator.   The late Senator John ...

Female Presidential aspirant, Eunice Atuejide has expressed her disappointment in another aspirant Donald Duke, over his stance on homosexuality in Nigeria.   In an interview with Laila and Falz, Donald Duke said: “I don’t understand the emotional feelings a gay person ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has apologised to former US president Barack Obama for calling him a “son of a whore” in 2016, which sparked a new low in their nations’ long alliance.   Duterte lobbed the insult in response to steady criticism ...

A Zimbabwean VP, Kembo Campbell Mohadi, has cried out for help over the torture he receives from his wife, Tambudzani Bhugadi Mohadi.   The VP accused his estranged wife of sending threatening messages to him after he instituted divorce proceedings in 2017, ...

Nigeria’s Senate Deputy President, Ike Ekweremadu who addressed his constituents who converged to beg him to return to the Senate in 2019,  revealed that he gave the All Progressives Congress, APC, N5m in 2014. Ike Ekweremadu who addressed his constituents who presented him the Peoples Democratic ...

Frontline Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Aspirant, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN, has laughed off insinuations in some quarters that he is fronting for another aspirant and would eventually step aside from the race.   “There is nothing like that. He will ...

Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission in some council areas within the Ibadan metropolis in Oyo State have been accused of requesting money for PVC registration.   According to The Punch, some prospective voters, alleged that some individuals presented themselves s ...

  President Buhari has told the National Working Committee members of the APC that N55 million nomination fee is too high for him. According to Newtelegraph a member of the National Executive Committee of the party revealed that the President “has complained to ...

According to a report by PRNigeria, the recently sacked Department of State Services (DSS), Mr Lawal Daura may be recalled to his duty post.   The news outfit claimed that a top security source close to the presidency said plans are afoot to ...

Lately, there’s been rumours that Lagos State Governor Akinwumi Ambode is planning to defect from the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) to the opposition, PDP.   The Lagos State governor, was reported to have been in a closed door meeting with ...

Former minister of Aviation and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Femi Fani-Kayode, has stated that removing President Buhari from office is not the solution to the problems bedeviling Nigeria.   According to him, “Nigeria’s problems can only be ...

Rapper, Lil Kesh was in Borno State recently where he met with the Governor, Kashim Shettima.   Kesh shared a photo from their meeting saying, ‘Borno state has had a lot of challenges but they’ve also been a lot of ...

A Lagos council chairman identified as Hon. Saliu Adeniyi, is trending on social media after photos of the single toilet he commissioned surfaced online.   Hon. Saliu Adeniyi is the council chairman of Eredo Local Council Development Area.   Here are photos of ...

President Buhari has landed in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China to participate in the 7th Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.   The president’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Alhaji Bashir Ahmad, who is on the president’s entourage to China, confirmed ...

An ISIS terrorist, who was arrested in November last year for plotting to assassinate British Prime Minister Teresa May, has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 30 years.   21 year old Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman, who had pledged ...

A video of Bill Clinton watching Ariana Grande perform at Aretha Franklin’s funeral has sparked an internet frenzy. According to social media users who criticised the former US president, the video is “gross” as it appears to show Bill Clinton’s eyes wander ...

Former vice president Atiku Abubakar couldn’t hold back the tears as he picked up his PDP presidential application form.   Atiku Abubakar Friday wept at his Presidential Campaign Office shortly after obtaining his Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms from the Peoples Democratic Party ...

President Buhari who hosted Angela Merkel at the state house in Abuja, told the visiting German Chancellor that Nigerian immigrants trying to illegally enter Europedoes not have his government’s support.   According to President Buhari, immigrants caught would be “at his or her own risk” as his government does ...

Nigeria’s Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu who spoke on Thursday at Sheraton Hotel at a public dialogue organised by the #NotTooYoungToRun movement, stated that he could remain in the senate forever if he wants because he is always in touch with his constituents.   Ike Ekweremadu ...

  The Hajj Commission in Zamfara on Friday confirmed the death of three local government chairmen of the All Progressives Congress  from the state in an auto crash in Saudi Arabia. The Public Relations Officer of the commission, Malam Yakub-Yahaya ...

A United Kingdom counsel, Philip Hackett, who spoke at the Annual General Conference of the NBA in Abuja on Wednesday, stated that Nigeria cannot be trusted with looted funds if returned to the country   According to the Queen’s Counsel who spoke on the theme: ‘Institutionalising ...

  Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has entered into an emergency closed-door meeting with his commissioners and aides over his political future in the All Progressives Congress, APC, ahead of the commencement of party primaries. DAILY POST gathered that ...

Nigeria’s Senate President Bukola Saraki, has reacted to claims by members of the ‘Not Too Young To Run’ campaign, on hijacking their platform to announce his presidency. The ‘Not Too Young To Run’ group in a statement they released had stated that they felt disappointed ...

German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has arrived Nigeria to discuss issues of mutual interest with President Buhari in a meeting where a number of Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the German-African Business Association and the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA). ...

  A Coptic Christian woman has been appointed as a provincial Governor for the first time in Egypt.   Manal Awad Mikhael has been sworn in as the Governor of Damietta. She is the second woman ever to be appointed ...