Charly Boy, the ace Nigerian entertainer, has warned politicians against manipulating the outcome of the 2027 general election. In an interview with Rudolf Okonkwo on 90MinutesAfrica, the septuagenarian who is popularly known as Area Fada, said the next nationwide poll would be a defining moment for the country. He added that the slogan for the…
President Bola Tinubu has rejected a proposed N942 billion budget from the National Population Commission (NPC) for the upcoming national housing and population census. Sources familiar with the discussions revealed that Tinubu insisted on cutting costs and suggested using members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) for the exercise. During a meeting at the…
Washington is revoking all visas for South Sudanese passport holders and blocking new arrivals, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday, complaining the African nation is not accepting its nationals expelled from the United States. The State Department “is taking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and prevent further issuance…
Rauf Aregbesola, former governor of Osun, says the parliamentary system of government is most suitable for a populous country like Nigeria. The former minister of interior spoke on Monday at a national dialogue on Home-Grown Parliamentary System in Abuja. “If you go on believing that an individual, no matter how beautiful, no matter how good,…
The senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, on Wednesday formally submitted a petition against Senate President Godswill Akpabio, accusing him of sexual harassment. Akpoti-Uduaghan, speaking under Order 40 of the Senate Rules, told her colleagues that she had previously made the allegations during an interview on Arise TV and was now officially presenting them before…
A young man identified as Sheriff Salifu and a woman, Blessing Adama from Ojogobi -Ankpa were found dead together in a room at Alo in Ankpa local government of Kogi state, on Friday. An alarm raised by the deceased’s landlord, Salisu Ibrahim, drew attention to the scene where their lifeless bodies were found on the…
The 2023 governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Adamawa State, Senator Aishatu Ahmed Binani has defected to the African Democratic Congress, ADC. Binani’s media aide, Maulud Usman confirmed the development to DAILY POST Sunday afternoon, clarifying that the politician flew into Yola on Saturday evening and made the declaration of her defection…
In a sharp repudiation of the World Bank’s recent poverty statistics, the Presidency on Wednesday dismissed the figure that 139 million Nigerians live in poverty as “detached from the country’s economic realities” and an analytical abstraction rather than a factual headcount. The government insisted that the estimate must be “contextualised” before being accepted as valid….
He air at Mammy Market Gate in Effurun, Delta State, hung thick and heavy, saturated with the competing aromas of diesel fumes and sizzling vegetable oil. Here, amidst the relentless, dusty clamour of the busy road, stood Ibrahim, a solitary figure locked in a perpetual dance with hot grease and sharp knives. He fries yam…
A U.S. federal court has handed down a second life sentence to David Deval Martin, 40, of McIntosh County, Oklahoma, for the savage 2013 killing of a Checotah woman he once dated. Martin was convicted by a federal jury in October 2024 of murder in Indian Country after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the…