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Views: Visits 10 The Department of State Security Services (DSS), has invited the national president of the Nigeria Youth Union (NYU), Chinonso Obasi, alongside other youth leaders involved in the plan to disrupt official activities at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The protesters are to explain why they want to shut down the airport in protest. Youth groups, […]

EXPOSED: How GT Bank Sacked Kogi Deputy Governor, Edward Onoja Over N53 Million Fraud The source added that Onoja was invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in 2011 but was let off the hook after bribing his way through the process. by SaharaReporters, New York Apr 12, 2021 The deputy governor of Kogi state, Edward Onoja, was sacked by Guaranty Trust Bank Plc for involving in a fraudulent act, a source told SaharaReporters. The source added that Onoja was invited by the ...

Flare-ups in Owerri, South East: Ndigbo, Ozoemenanu! By Sun Apr 11 2021 For some weeks now, the city of Owerri capital of Imo State, (easily the heartland of Ndigbo) has been in the news for less than edifying reasons. While the latest of these may be the recent Easter day jail break following an attack on the Nigerian Correctional Services (prison) in Owerri, which led to the escape of about 1,800 prisoners, as well as the destruction of parts of the premises of the headquarters of the Imo Sta...

Share The screening of contenders for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), South-West positions was on Sunday held amidst tight security in Osogbo, Osun State in preparation for Monday’s congress. At the entrance of the hotel, contenders were frisked from head to toe by security men stationed to maintain law and order during and after the exercise. A combined team of mobile and conventional policemen, including men of the Directorate of the State Security Services were seen around the venue. H...

Men come and men go. But does history make the man or does the man make history? When this old philosophical conundrum was put across to Nelson Mandela, he responded that history makes the man. Though others may have a different opinion, this was certainly the case of the Okoroba-born scholar, orator, activist, intellectual giant and philanthropist, Barrister Oronto Obebitazibanateiami Douglas, who sojourned planet earth for forty-eight years. Advertisement Oronto’s parents, Pa Obebara Dougla...

Mr Issoufou will be stepping down on April 7 after serving two five-year terms while Mohamed Bazoum, who recently won the presidential election, is expected to be sworn in that day.

TODAY File Photo A cross section of senior lawyers in the country have paid glowing tribute to the late Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Slyvester Nwguta, who died in the early hours of Sunday. A statement by the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Hadizatu Mustapha announcing the death of Justice Ngwuta, said he died in the early hours of Sunday in his sleep at his official Abuja residence. The statement said “He felt sick and was admitted in the last one week in the National Hospit...

By MARIE-THERESA NANLONG A former member of the House of Representatives, Bitrus Kaze, in this interview, speaks on insecurity in Nigeria, especially in the northern states. President Muhammadu Buhari has ruled out the proposal to grant amnesty to bandits, but some northern leaders are still clamouring for it. Why do you think they are pushing for it? I have been speaking on this matter for a very long time and I do not subscribe at all to amnesty for bandits. I have said in the past that I do ...

An #EndSARS campaigner and a member of Citizens’ Rally against Oppression, Mr. Dele Farotimi, has alleged that some powerful personalities in Lagos State had threatened his life over his agitation against the reopening of Lekki Toll Plaza.

Daily Post Nigeria Published At least 10 policemen of the Rapid Response Squad in the Bauchi State governor’s convoy, were on Monday involved in a road accident. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the accident took place while Gov. Bala Mohammed was inspecting a 60- kilometres Burga-Yelwan Duguri road project in Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area (LGA), currently being constructed by the state government. The road is to connect the people of Tafawa Balewa LGA to Yelwan Duguri and ...