The Peoples Democratic Party on Friday challenged the jurisdiction of a Federal High Court in Abuja to summon it over its forthcoming presidential primary election. The PDP in a Notice of Preliminary Objection filed by its lawyer, Mahmud Magaji (SAN), said the subject matter of the case, which bordered on whether to zone its presidential…
The death toll recorded during the building collapse, which happened Sunday, on Ibadan Street, in the Ebute Metta area of Lagos State, has increased to eight. A statement by the National Emergency Management Agency confirmed the development on Monday. “Two male additional bodies recovered, making eight deaths,” the acting coordinator, NEMA, Ibrahim Farinloye, said. Our…
The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, has reacted to calls for the arrest of popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi over the recent bandits’ attacks in Kaduna State. National President of AYCF, Yerima Shettima, said nobody has the right to arrest Gumi because he has done the best he can. Speaking with DAILY POST, Shettima…
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Monday, reacted to claims that President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the release of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu. There were reports that Buhari ordered the release of the IPOB leader from detention. Kanu has been incarcerated since 2021 June, when he was arrested in Kenya and repatriated to Nigeria….
The presidency has said the bloodthirsty bandits who are currently on rampage across the country, particularly the North, do not deserve to live, saying they should be killed. President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, who stated this in a statement on Friday while reacting to the attack on Abuja-Kaduna rail track, said the assailants have…
A man, who regained freedom from his captors a fortnight ago in Woji, near Port Harcourt, has raised the alarm over a new gang of kidnappers in Rivers State that specialises in abducting victims and harvesting their internal organs for sale. The traumatised man, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he was kidnapped by…
The International Monetary Fund says countries that have very close economic links with Ukraine and Russia are at particular risk of scarcity and supply disruptions. It added that poor households across the world would suffer from the increase in food and fuel prices, as the Ukraine-Russia war persists. The Washington-based Fund said this on Saturday…
Embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, and four others may spend more time in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency as the NDLEA has approached a Federal High Court in Abuja informing the court of its intention to detain the suspects beyond the stipulated 48 hours. NDLEA has already begun a…
The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Wednesday traded blame over the four-week strike which the union began on Monday. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, in an interview with State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja said the demands of the union were being renegotiated. He…
Former Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola has attacked his political ally and leader, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, over who becomes the next governor of the state. Aregbesola, who is the current Minister of Interior, spoke in Ijebu Ijesa while addressing the All Progressives Congress, APC, faithful and stakeholders ahead of the party’s governorship primary. Aregbesola,…
