Ebonyi State Governor, Francis Nwifuru, on Tuesday, suspended three commissioners due to their absenteeism from official duties. The suspended commissioners are Solomon Azi (Grants and Donor Agencies), Victor Chukwu (Environment), and Ikeuwa Omebe (Rural Development). They were each suspended for...
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Published on: 2025-03-19
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The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, has called on African nations to take a leading role in the decarbonisation of the global shipping industry. Speaking at the African Strategic Summit on Shipping Decarbonisation held in Abuja, Oyetola...
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Published on: 2025-03-19
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In what observers are describing as a disturbing breakdown in civil-military relations, armed personnel from the Sam Ethnan Air Force Base in Ikeja executed a raid on the headquarters of Ikeja Electric Distribution Company in Alausa, Lagos, leaving multiple staff...
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Published on: 2025-03-19
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Suspended Kogi Central senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, on Tuesday, likened the Nigerian Senate to a secret society where lawmakers are too scared to voice contrary opinions to any issue raised by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio. According to her, fellows senators...
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Published on: 2025-03-19
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The Nigerian Air Force said, on Tuesday, that a precision air strike against Boko Haram enclaves in Chikide and Degbewa in Borno State inflicted heavy losses on the terrorist group. Acting on credible Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance reports, the NAF ...
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Published on: 2025-03-19
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The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday dismissed the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission’s request to join the lawsuit filed by Dangote Petroleum Refinery seeking to stop the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and oil marketers from importing...
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Published on: 2025-03-19
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The 2 Brigade, Nigerian Army in the Abak Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State has announced plans to hold this year’s first quarter range classification exercise. The exercise will begin today, March 19 and last till March 28, 2025,...
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Published on: 2025-03-19
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The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has announced that the African Aviation and Aerospace University has fully taken off and is now one of the leading institutions of its kind in Africa. Speaking on the university’s progress...
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Published on: 2025-03-19
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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela Few statements capture the transformative power of education as succinctly as this one. Across history, nations that have placed education at the core...
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Published on: 2025-03-19
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THE Nigerian military is escalating its recklessly violent and illegal attacks on electricity distribution companies. It intensified its impunity and lawlessness at the weekend when soldiers invaded an EKO Electricity Distribution Company complex in Badagry, Lagos. In a democracy, this...
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Published on: 2025-03-19
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The Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, has described President Bola Tinubu’s action as a dangerous precedent for Nigeria’s democracy. This follows President Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State on Tuesday night. CUPP stated that the...
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Published on: 2025-03-18
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On Monday, 17th March 2025, the All-Progressives Congress (APC) issued a press statement signed by Felix Morka, Esq., National Publicity Secretary. In the statement, the APC addressed the comments made by the former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, and...
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Published on: 2025-03-18
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The All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the 2023 Rivers State election, Tonye Cole, has shared his opinion on why Governor Siminalayi Fubara might have ignored President Bola Tinubu, as the President claimed in his broadcast on Tuesday. DAILY...
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Published on: 2025-03-18
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Deputy Senate President Jibrin Barau on Tuesday declared that politicians defecting to the Social Democratic Party, SDP, with the aim of using it to challenge the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2027 are on a mission that is dead...
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Published on: 2025-03-18
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The Executive Chairman of Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Prof. Femi Akinwumi, has charged the headteachers of public primary schools in the state to be more proactive in sustaining the current achievements in the basic education sector under...
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Published on: 2025-03-18
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The naira recorded its first gain this week against the dollar at the parallel foreign exchange market on Tuesday. This comes as a Bureau de Change operator in Wuse Zone 4, Abuja, Idris Yunusa, confirmed to DAILY POST that the...
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Published on: 2025-03-18
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The Senator representing Aba South Senatorial District in the Nigerian Senate, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has stated that the Constitution requires the National Assembly to approve the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State. DAILY POST earlier reported on Tuesday...
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Published on: 2025-03-18
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Real Madrid Women have won the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final against Arsenal. The Spanish side secured a 2-0 victory under soggy conditions at the Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium. Heavy rain in Madrid left the pitch in poor...
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Published on: 2025-03-18
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The verbal war between the Edo State Government and the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, remains unabated, as both sides are once again at odds over the state of the government-owned newspaper, The Nigerian Observer. DAILY POST...
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Published on: 2025-03-18
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Freed hostages Sasha Troufanov, Iair Horn, and Keith Siegel spoke publicly at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, expressing concern over the resumption of IDF airstrikes against Hamas, which ended the fragile Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal. Also present at...
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Published on: 2025-03-18
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A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ayekooto Akindele has advised the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on how to resolve the lingering crisis in the state. In a post on his official Facebook page, Ayekooto urged the governor...
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Published on: 2025-03-18
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A Federal High Court in Abuja has been asked to compel the authorities of the University of PortHarcourt to produce the admission records, departmental results and graduation certificate of a Director with the Federal Capital Development Authority, FCDA, Odom Anurika...
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Published on: 2025-03-18
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Twenty-two players are now in the Super Eagles Radisson Blu Hotel camp in Kigali ahead of Friday’s 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Rwanda. DAILY POST reports that 12 players reported for duty on the first day of camping on...
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Published on: 2025-03-18
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The Peoples Redemption Party, PRP has expressed concern over the reported lobbying efforts by State Governors of the President aimed at obstructing the direct disbursement of Federal allocations to Local Government Authorities, LGAs. The party in a statement issued Tuesday...
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Published on: 2025-03-18
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The US President, Donald Trump, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin will hold a two-hour call from 9am. ET. Kremlin’s spokesman Dimtry Peskov announced this on Tuesday. According to a Russian state news agency RIA, Peskov said the two presidents...
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Published on: 2025-03-18
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Head coach of Mali’s national team, Tom Saintfiet, has named the two countries that are favourites to win the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON. The 2025 AFCON will take place from December 21 in Morocco. Ivory Coast are the...
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Published on: 2025-03-18
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The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of two persons in connection with the explosion that rocked the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC,-operated Trans Niger Delta Pipeline. DAILY POST reports that the incident occurred from Monday night through...
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Published on: 2025-03-18
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A former House of Assembly candidate, Adnan Mukhtar Tudun-Wada, has criticized Seyi Tinubu, son of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, over his recent Iftar tour in Northern Nigeria, accusing him of disrespecting the region. Adnan, a public relations practitioner and university...
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Published on: 2025-03-18
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