The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, has given a reason Nigerians should sack him if elected president in the upcoming presidential election. Obi said Nigerians should sack him and his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, if they take the country in the wrong direction. Speaking at the Support Group Conveners Conference in…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily stopped the withdrawal of old naira notes from February 10. Three governors—Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna, Yahaya Bello of Kogi, and Bello Matawalle of Zamfara—had filed an ex parte motion before the Supreme Court petition for a temporary restraining order to stop President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime and the Central Bank…
FG Approves Use Of Hijab For Female Students The Federal Government has approved the use of Hijab for female Muslim students. This was contained in a circular signed by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Andrew David Adejo. The circular, was sent to all Principals of all the 112 Federal Unity Colleges and Federal…
Beggars in Jigawa State have cried out over the decline in almsgiving as a result of the scarcity of the new naira notes. Some of the beggars expressed their concern while speaking with Daily Post in Dutse, the State capital. Malam Sani, one of the beggars along Kiyawa road in Dutse, said before the new…
The Federal Government of Nigeria on Tuesday accused some opposition parties of legally restricting President Muhammadu Buhari from giving relief to Nigerians suffering agonies of cash crunch resulting from the naira redesign. Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, made the remark at the 23rd edition of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration scorecard series (2015-2023)…
A Turkey-based Nigerian, Emmanuel Olaitan Johnson, has recounted how he survived the earthquake that killed more than 2,700 people in Turkey on Monday. Johnson, who spoke with BBC Pidgin, explained that he sensed danger when he noticed the crack in his building wall. Recounting his ordeal, Jonhson said he was dressed only in pants, picked up his…
Following the arrest of a lecturer over an allegation of having unlawful s3xual intercourse with his biological daughter in Lagos State, the state Domestic and S3xual Violence Agency has decried the rise in such cases in the state. The Executive Secretary for the agency, Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, in a statement, said the agency got to know…
A civil society group in Edo State, Edo Civil Society Group led by Comrade Agho Omobude on Tuesday blocked the main entrance of the Central Bank of Nigeria in Benin City over the scarcity of the naira notes which has brought suffering to millions of Nigerians. As a result of the protest, vehicles coming into…
A Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, has remanded over 20 persons arrested in connection with a meeting by members of the Atiku Support Organisation in the state correctional centre. They were arraigned on counts of conspiracy, cultism, and unlawful gathering. Chief Magistrate Collins Ali after refusing bail application by the…
Former Nigeria’s President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, has lost his uncle, Elder Omieworio Afeni. Elder Afeni died in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital at the weekend after a brief illness. He was the younger brother to Jonathan’s mother. A statement signed by Ikechukwu Eze, media adviser to Jonathan, noted that the former President had been in…
