The Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday began screening Lauretta Onochie and other nominees for appointment as National Commissioners of the electoral body. Onochie, Special Assistant to the President on Social Media, is already in the Senate Chambers waiting to be screened. President Muhammadu Buhari hadContinue Reading
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has emphasised urgent need for the world to put a Global Vaccine Plan in place to get the pandemic under control as death toll passes four million. Guterres, in a statement, said that the global death toll due to COVID-19 officially passed four million late Wednesday, marking yetContinue Reading
The National Assembly yesterday raised the N895.842 billion supplementary budget proposal for the 2021 fiscal year submitted to its two chambers, the Senate and the House of Representatives, by President Muhammadu Buhari by N87.9 billion and approved N982.729 billion. The Senate also approved the federal government’s request for $6.183 billionContinue Reading
Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, former Minister of Finance, has said that she has been vindicated by a Federal High Court in Abuja. Adeosun also said that the judgement of Justice Taiwo Taiwo wasn’t only a personal win for her but for every Nigerian in the Diaspora. DAILY POST had earlier reportedContinue Reading
Harry Kane scored in the Extra Time to give England a spot in the Euro 2020 final.×× Kane is now on a joint-level with Gary Lineker for most goals scored (10) for England at a major tournament. Mikkel Damsgaard gave Denmark a 1-0 lead in the 30th minute with aContinue Reading
THE Presidency, on Tuesday, stated that it got the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, due to “cross-border cooperation” in a well-coordinated “international operation”. They said after Kanu was nabbed, he was then handed over to National Intelligence Agency, NIA, and then returned to Nigeria to faceContinue Reading
Kano State Govenor Abdullahi Ganduje says President Muhammadu Buhari administration spends N1.5billion monthly on school feeding in the State. Ganduje gave the figure on Tuesday when he hosted the technical committee on the National Home Grown School Feeding programme (NHGSF). He stated that Kano has the highest number of populationContinue Reading
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has accused the Federal Government of appointing compromised academics, willing to submit names of politically exposed lecturers as returning officers to rig elections for the ruling party, as vice-chancellors of federal universities. Wike, however, warned VCs and lecturers to be wary of attempts by someContinue Reading
Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka has faulted calls for the formation of a Yoruba nation. He said he preferred a united Nigeria, but under certain “rigorous conditions”. Describing the country as a “basket case”, he said the political arrangement was not working. In an interview with BBC Pidgin, Soyinka condemnedContinue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed security agencies to ensure the safe and early release of all kidnapped victims in the country. Buhari gave the directive after bandits stormed Bethel Baptist boarding school at Maramara Chickun Local Government Area of Kaduna State and kidnapped scores of students. It was learnt that the gunmenContinue Reading
