The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, says the Deputy Governor-elect whose certificate scandal cost the All Progressives Congress the Bayelsa State governorship seat, is on the verge of committing suicide. Sylva said this on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily program on Monday. The governor-elect, David Lyon; and the deputy governor-elect, Senator Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo, were sacked…
Ahead of the 2020 gubernatorial election in Ondo State, deputy chairman of the Zenith Labour Party in Ondo State, Organising secretary, 13 local government chairmen, 161 ward chairmen, and their executives and other leaders of the party have resigned their various executive positions and membership of the party. The leaders, comprising many state executive committee…
Bishop Oyedepo of Winners Chapel has said that one cannot fast his way into prosperity. According to the clergyman who tweeted, the way into prosperity is not by denying oneself of food but by feeding on the word of God. “You cannot fast your way into your prosperity, you feed into it through the Word…
Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo state, says Babajide, his son, worked hard during his campaign and there is nothing anyone can do if he decides to appoint him as his chief of staff. Speaking at government house, Akure, during a dinner organised in commemoration of his third anniversary as governor, Akeredolu said his son worked…
The Nigerian Government has shut down Lafarge, a cement manufacturing company in Ewekoro, Ogun State, after an exclusive story by SaharaReporters on Friday. An employee of the company, who drove an Italian infected with Coronavirus with an ambulance to Lagos for medical attention, has also been arrested. A clinic situated inside the cement factory has also been…
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, OYC, has warned the Nigerian Army against recruiting Igbo youths to fight Boko Haram in the Northeast. This was contained in a statement to DAILY POST signed by OYC President-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro and Secretary-General, Okwu Nnabuike. The group was reacting to a recent recruitment exercise pronounced by the army’s Director…
Senator Shehu Sani said on Thursday that the acute poverty and begging culture in the north were as a result of social injustice and the systemic failure of political leaders of the region. Sani, an activist and former senator representing Kaduna Central at the National Assembly, insisted that the poverty ravaging the region could not…
Umaro Sissoco Embalo swore himself in as the new president of Guinea-Bissau on Thursday, defying a bitter ongoing row about the outcome of the December 29 elections, an AFP reporter saw. “I swear on my honor to defend the constitution, to respect it and have it respected,” Embalo said before a crowd at an upscale…
The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum, Aminu Tambuwal, on Wednesday, said the forum had appointed the Governor of Abia State, Mr. Okezie Ikpeazu, as the Vice Chairman of the forum He spoke to journalists in Abuja after the meeting of the PDP-GF and the PDP National Working Committee. Tambuwal, who is also…
The impeachment of the former Deputy Governor of Kogi State, Simon Achuba, has been declared null and void by a State High Court in Lokoja. Achuba was in October 2019 impeached by the State House of Assembly. But Justice John Olorunfemi on Wednesday faulted Achuba’s removal from office, describing it as a violation of the…