Former lawmaker and social critic, Senator Shehu Sani, has reacted to the alleged looting of a warehouse belonging to the National Emergency Management Agency of Nigeria, NEMA, by some residents of the Federal Capital Terrritory, FCT. According to Sani, the development is a dangerous symptom of an impending revolution. DAILY POST reported some residents of…
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, has told a Federal High Court in Abuja that the military forcefully took away some suspects allegedly involved in oil bunkering from police custody. Counsel to the IGP, Idris Mohammed, revealed this to Justice James Omotosho when the matter was called for the alleged oil bunkerers to take their plea…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), under the directive of the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, has announced a 90-day window for regularizing import duties on specific categories of vehicles. The window is meant to streamline import processes. A statement by the National Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Customs Service, Chief…
Amid worsening economic hardship and hunger in the country, a social critic and human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, says she knew politicians would deploy clerics to confuse Nigerians. Yesufu was reacting to a statement credited to an Abuja cleric and Senior Pastor of the Shepherd House Assembly International, Reverend Joshua Talena, that the current global…
A Canadian returnee, Mr Chidiebere Eluwa, from Amakama community in Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia State, has called for the disbandment of a local vigilante group in his community, citing threat to peoples’ lives as his reason. Eluwa, who made the call in Umuahia, alleged that the group was becoming a source of…
Despite economic uncertainties and the initial hurdle that trailed President Bola Tinubu’s visit to Qatar, the Nigerian President made attempts to woo investors in his host country on Sunday, telling them there is nowhere in the world where one will find return on investment at the level of what is obtainable in Nigeria. He said…
The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has described as a welcomed development the news of the release of the children of Kuriga school in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna state. The President General of the forum, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, in a statement on Sunday averred that the abduction of the children and some of…
The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has said that Nigerians would patronise made-in-Nigeria goods only if the products were competitive in quality and pricing. DAILY POST reports that the monarch stated this when the president of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, Otunba Francis Meshioye, paid him a visit to his palace in Benin…
Eight students of David Umahi Federal University of Health Sciences, Uburu, in Ebonyi State, have been expelled from the institution, while 23 others are facing disciplinary actions for breaching the institution’s moral guidelines. The Vice Chancellor of the institution, Professor Jesse Uneke, stated this during the third matriculation ceremony of the 2023–2024 academic session on…
Traditional Rulers in Delta State have pledged to assist security agencies in smoking out killers of military officers in Okuama community in Delta State. The monarchs described the killings as unprovoked and barbaric, which led to the deaths of the officers on rescue missions. Rising from a meeting of the Delta State Council of Traditional…
In the spirit of the Easter celebration and the ongoing Ramadan, the Ogun State government on Sunday continues its palliative distribution across the three senatorial districts of the state to cushion the effect of the current economic challenges on the people. It was the turn of Christians as the palliative got to many churches, while…
The Ogun State government, on Friday, said it is already working on the rehabilitation of Agbado-Oke Aro-Akute road. The government was reacting to a video that captured 500 pastors urging Governor Dapo Abiodun to rehabilitate the road in fulfilment of his re-election pledge. In a statement issued by the State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure,…