The former member representing Warri Federal Constituency at the Federal House of Representatives Hon.Daniel Reyenieju has condoled with the Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal over the death of his father Sheikh Haruna .

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By Egufe Yafugborhi – Port Harcourt Nigeria Customs Service, Area 1 Command, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has posted N16,180,827,894.00 revenue for the First Quarter of 2020 despite the negative impact of Coronavirus. Customs Area Controller of the Command, Comptroller Auwal Mohammed who disclosed this in an operational report said the revenue was  N2,993,362,850.00 higher than
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Diego Maradona has lent a hand in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic in his hometown by autographing an Argentina national team jersey for a raffle. The sale raised money for an underprivileged area on the outskirts of Buenos Aires affected by quarantine rules. I was asked for bribe to make 2014 World Cup squad
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By Chimaobi Nwaiwu – Nnewi The Anambra State Commissioner for Transport, Dr. Christian Madubuko has warned Commercial Tricycle Owners and Riders Welfare Association of Anambra State, CTORWAAS, and their alleged paid agents to desist from peddling false allegations against his Ministry or face the wrath of the law. Dr. Madubuko also warned CTORWAAS, its Chairman,
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France defender Samuel Umtiti has picked up a calf injury in just the second session since Barcelona returned to training from the coronavirus quarantine, the Spanish champions announced on Saturday. Barca said that Umiti picked up an injury to his right calf during Saturday’s training session at the club’s Joan Gamper facility, but did not
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Dayo Johnson – Akure All the unclaimed and unburied corpses in Ondo government morgues across the State would be given mass burial in the next one month. Health commissioner Dr. Wahab Adegbenro said this in a statement issued by his Press Office Abooluwa Famakinwa in Akure. Adegbenro has therefore called on relations of the deceased
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The US women’s national team on Friday filed an appeal against a legal setback in their equal pay lawsuit, saying they are being paid less than the men even though they win twice as much. In dismissing their equal pay claim last Friday, Judge Gary Klausner said the case was unwarranted because they had previously
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Abia Police Command in Abia says it has rescued two persons kidnapped in Aba town of the state. 

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The World Health Organisation, WHO, has revealed that the wholesale market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan played a role in the outbreak of the coronavirus in December, 2019. Dr. Peter Ben Embarek, a WHO expert on food safety and zoonotic viruses speaking at a Geneva news briefing said that investigations are ongoing to […]

WHO admits Wuhan market played role in outbreak of coronavirus

Fear has continued to grip the citizens of Ebonyi State, following the continuous rise in the number of cases of COVID-19 pandemic in the State. The Governor of Ebonyi State, Chief David Umahi had yesterday announced another two more cases of COVID-19. Umahi while addressing journalists at the new government lodge, Abakaliki, confirmed that two […]

COVID-19 cases rise to 7 in Ebonyi

The founder of Inri Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has said that the COVID-19 broke out because “the rich abandoned the poor”. According to the Daily Sun, the cleric said “the sickness is not for the poor”. As of Saturday morning, Nigeria had 3,912 confirmed cases of Coronavirus. Of that number, 679 patients have […]

COVID-19: Primate Ayodele reveals why pandemic broke out, warns govt about churches

The various market associations in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja on Friday met with the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, and pledged their support for the efforts of the administration in containing the spread of COVID-19 in the Territory. They made the pledge when a delegation from the Committee of Chairmen and Secretaries […]

COVID-19 lockdown: Abuja traders meet FCT Minister, make demands

Sheikh Haruna Tambuwal, father of Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal is dead. He died on Friday at the age of 96 after a brief illness at his residence in Tambuwal Council of Sokoto. The 96-year-old is survived by children, including the governor, as well as grandchildren and great grandchildren. Being a devout Muslim, he has […]

Sheikh Tambuwal is dead, Atiku, Peter Obi react

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has condoled with President Muhammadu Buhari over the death of his nephew, Alhaji Mutari Dauda. Lawan also commiserated with Malam Mamman Daura over the passing of Mutari, who was his younger brother. The Senate President said he shared in the grief of the entire Daura community, Government and people […]

Senator Lawan sends message to Buhari over nephew’s death

The Premier League will warn clubs at a meeting on Monday, not to vote against the season restarting at neutral venues, as it could cost them more than relegation, according to Sky Sports. The clubs in the bottom six – Brighton, West Ham, Watford, Bournemouth, Aston Villa and Norwich – have reservations about proposals to […]

COVID-19: EPL threatens clubs over restarting matches at neutral venues

A Coalition of Igbo groups has risen in defence of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, OYC, as the crisis within the Ohanaeze Ndigbo widens. DAILY POST had reported that a new Ohanaeze Ndigbo has now emerged with the registration of Ohanaeze Ndigbo General Assembly by the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC. With the development, the Chief […]

2023: Igbo groups back OYC, chide Ohanaeze on State creation

The Jigawa State government has announced the death of the Special Adviser to the Governor on Adult and Higher Education, Alhaji Ibrahim Isma’il. Senior Special Assistant to the Executive Governor of Jigawa State on New Media, Auwalu D. Sankara confirmed the death to DAILY POST. He said the deceased died in the hospital after suffering […]

Governor Badaru losses another aide

The founder of Inri Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has predicted that the vaccine for COVID-19 will be discovered in July this year. Scientists around the world are yet to make a breakthrough with regards to a cure for the virus, since it broke out earlier this year in Wuhan, China. In the last […]

COVID-19: Primate Ayodele predicts when vaccine will be discovered

UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, says divisions and hatred still exist globally. Guterres made the remark on Friday in a video message to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The war claimed millions of lives. The UN chief warned that the coronavirus pandemic was aggravating the situation. He said it […]

UN: Guterres raises alarm about world happenings, coronavirus

Senator representing Adamawa North Senatorial district, Elisha Ishaku Abbo has accused governor Ahmadu Fintiri of making false claims over the donation of transformers to some communities in the State. The lawmaker said the transformers were donated by the newly established Northeast Development Commission (NEDC) through the intervention of his Committee. He frowned at the publication […]

Senator Abbo accuses Adamawa Governor of ‘false claims’ over NEDC projects

Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in the Diaspora (AESID) has charged the Inspector General of Police and the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS) to end political violence and killings in Asaga Owutu Edda in Afikpo South LGA. Governor David Umahi made a similar call a few days ago. On Monday, Ebonyi State […]

Ebonyi indigenes charge police, DSS over killings, make revelations

A frontline activist, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN, has accused the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike of turning into a dictator. He listed some attributes of dictatorship being displayed by the Governor to include the arbitrary arrest of pilots and oil workers; the closure of State boundaries and now an executive order to auction all vehicles […]

COVID-19 lockdown: Gov. Wike becoming a dictator in Rivers – Senior lawyer, Adegboruwa

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Sokoto Governor, Aminu Tambuwal has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for commitment to tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. Tambuwal spoke on Friday at the inauguration of the State COVID-19 Volunteers. He noted that coronavirus was being properly addressed by Buhari and the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19. “I personally want to appreciate the president and the Task […]

Tambuwal sends message to Buhari

The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite, has claimed that some influential Nigerians are the sponsors of those caught mining illegally. According to Adegbite, “these godfathers” are putting pressure on the federal government to free Chinese nationals arrested for illegal mining. The Osun government on Monday, announced the arrest of 27 persons for […]

Buhari’s Minister reveals influential Nigerians fighting for release of Chinese arrested in Osun

The Akwa Ibom State government has disclosed that its task force has intercepted a corpse of a COVID-19 victim being smuggled into the State from Lagos State. The Commissioner of Health in the State, Dr. Dominic Ukpong, made the revelation, adding that the corpse has been buried in accordance with the COVID-19 regulations. Ukpong spoke […]

Akwa Ibom intercepts dead body of COVID-19 victim from Lagos

The Lagos State Police Command has rescued an unidentified woman shortly after she gave birth.   She delivered the baby at a section of the Lekki-Ajah expressway on Friday. Good spirited Nigerians had called operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) to the scene. The Police said the mother has four other children and are […]

Police rescue homeless mother of 4 who gave birth on Lagos road [Photos]

Second Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Monday Onyekachi Ubani has reacted to the Supreme Court’s nullification of the conviction of a former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu. Also nullified was the judgement against his firm, Slok Nigeria Limited and Jones Udeogu, a former Director of Finance and Account of Abia […]

Supreme Court verdict on Orji Kalu right, sound – Monday Ubani

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has told the people of the State and the entire Nigerians to hold the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government responsible if COVID-19 escalates in the State. Wike said this in his statewide broadcast on Friday, adding that nobody should be surprised if the coronavirus cases in the State rise […]

COVID-19: Hold Buhari govt responsible if coronavirus escalates in Rivers – Wike cries out

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has regretted how the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic scuttled his plans to renovate 236 primary health care centres in the state. According to Gov Abiodun, the COVID-19 pandemic was a surprise to him because it happened just as he was beginning to roll out plans to reform the […]

Coronavirus prevented me from renovating 236 health centres in Ogun – Gov Abiodun

It is not for nothing that it is said that two heads are better than one. Then Prof. Kimse Okoko modified it to ‘two good heads.’ I believe that Gov. Nyesom Wike should involve his entire cabinet members (as it appears he does not) in managing Covid-19 in Rivers State. If he does that, I […]

Senibo Chris Finebone: Way to go in fighting COVID-19 in Rivers State(1)

The Nigerian military has arrested 28 suspected spies leaking operational secrets to the Boko Haram and Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists. The suspects, both local and foreign nationals are currently under investigation. The arrest followed attacks this week by ISWAP on the military post in Diffa, Niger Republic, located along a border […]

Boko Haram/ISWAP: Nigerian military arrests 28 local, foreign spies

A 28-year-old ex-convict, Mr. Emeka Okeke, has reportedly arrested a 36-year-old woman (name withheld), with a fake gun, forcing her into two rounds of sex with him. The state police spokesperson, SP Haruna Mohammed, who revealed this on Saturday, said the incident happened on Thursday around Okpuno area in Awka South Local Government Area at […]

Ex-convict, ‘Aso Rock’ arrested for allegedly raping woman in Anambra

The Ondo State Government has given a month ultimatum for concern residents of the state to evacuate the corpses of their loved ones from morgues operated by the government for decent burial or risk being given mass burial. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Wahab Adegbenro, who disclosed this on Saturday, stated that the move […]

Mortuary congestion: Ondo threatens mass burial for corpses, gives 30-day ultimatum

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Saturday, gave an insight into his whereabouts in the past few weeks. Osinbajo, who spoke through his spokesperson, Akande Laolu, disclosed that he has been attending to official matters on how to improve Nigeria’s economy. Laolu, in an Instagram post shared with DAILY POST, after he was contacted on Osinbajo’s […]

BREAKING: Osinbajo breaks silence on his whereabouts

BY EMEKA EJERE Governor Nyesom Wike, of Rivers State has accused the state’s deputy commissioner of police, DCP Adamu Abubakar of sabotaging the lockdown in the state by issuing illegal letters to companies after collecting money from them. Wike, who spoke in an interview on Thursday, said the deputy commissioner of Police released people he […]

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BY EMEKA EJERE Soldiers deployed in Benue have recorded a great feat by killing a suspected notorious criminal, Terugwa Igbagwa, during a raid operation in the state. The Coordinator of Defence Media Operations at the Defence Headquarters, Major General John Enenche, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. According to him, Igbagwa whose alias is […]

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Adebayo Obajemu As part of Julius Berger Nigeria Plc’s continued efforts to support Federal, State and the Federal Capital Territory Governments in the fight to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, the company has expanded its food donation initiative to assist the vulnerable among the indigenes and residents of Abuja. The project which is themed “Food for our Communities […]

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By Sunday Oguntuyi, Osogbo Residents of Ako community, Ikire in Irewole local government area of Osun state has expressed appreciation to Governor Adegboyega Oyetola and Commissioner for Finance, Mr Bola Oyebamiji for helping to restore electricity to the area after years of darkness. Speaking on behalf of the community,  one of their leaders, Pastor Raphael […]

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Adebayo Obajemu First Bank of Nigeria Holdings (FBNH) in the first quarter of 2020 reported a profit after tax of N25.7 billion. This represents a growth of 62.74% when compared to the profit after tax of N15.79 billion reported in the first quarter of 2019. The unaudited financial statement for Q1 2020 of the big […]

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BUENOS AIRES: Electricity services have been restored to more than 50 percent of Argentina and Uruguay following a massive blackout that left around 48 million people without power on Sunday, authorities said.

With only two police officers to patrol the vast Muang Ek community in Pathum Thani per shift, deterring crime had been a near-impossible mission.

MANCHESTER: Rohit Sharma scored his second hundred in three innings as India maintained their unbeaten record against Pakistan at the World Cup with an 89-run win under the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method on Sunday.

PEBBLE BEACH: Gary Woodland took a two-shot lead over two-time defending champion Brooks Koepka and Justin Rose into the back nine at Pebble Beach on Sunday in the final round of the US Open Golf Championship.

WASHINGTON - Washington is planning another tidal wave of tariffs on Chinese imports that represent a worst-case scenario for markets and major industries on both sides of the Pacific.