The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) will soon announce a new price for Third Party Motor Insurance. The Chairman, Nigeria Insurers Association (NIA) Committee on Publicity, Ebelechukwu Nwachukwu told the media that the take-off would be in January 2022. Nwachukwu, Managing Director, NSIA Insurance Ltd., said the Insurers Committee was working on the review of the…
A Kwara State high court sitting in Ilorin, on Friday sacked the 16 Transitional Implementation Committee Chairmen of the state’s local governments. In his judgement, Justice Hassan. A . Gegele, described “the action of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq and the state government as executive rascality and abuse of office.” The court agreed that ” the Kwara…
The management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife says it is still awaiting the report of the committee set up to investigate the circumstances surrounding the deaths of a student of the Foreign Languages department, Aisha Adesina. Recall that the institution indefinitely shut down academic activities following students protests. The late final year student was said…
A gubernatorial aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ademola Adeleke has described as a figment of the imagination of the writer, the news that has been generating furore regarding his visit to the Ooni of Ife, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II. The story which purportedly emanated from Moses Olafare, the Director of…
After several years of agitations, the Ekiti State Government has granted recognition to Olukere of Ikere Ekiti, Oba Ganiyu Obasoyin. The territory that Olukere occupies and superintends over was also given autonomy by the government and is to be named Odo Oja, Ikere Ekiti. Ikere is the second-largest city in Ekiti State. Obasoyin, whose predecessors…
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya, on Friday, charged troops to be alert and vigilant. Brig Gen Onyema Nwachukwu, Director of Army Public Relations, in a statement on Friday, said the COAS gave the charge while addressing instructors at Depot Nigerian Army, Nigerian Military School (NMS), Directorate of Army Physical Training…
Femi Adesina, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, has launched an attack on Senate Minority Leader, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe. Adesina, who was referring to Abaribe, said the Senator should be in prison for supporting “someone bent on dismembering Nigeria.” Abaribe from Abia South had stood as surety for Nnamdi Kanu, leader of…
The Zamfara State Police Command has said that it rescued one Mudassiru Malan from kidnappers den, saying that the ongoing fight against the terrorists in the state is yielding positive results as they are gradually leaving the state. According to a press statement signed by the command’s spokesman, SP Mohammed Shehu, the Police Tactical Operatives…
Police in Kano State, on Thursday, uncovered an illegal rehabilitation center and freed fourty seven inmates at Yar Akwa in Naibawa Quarters, Tarauni Local Government, Kano State Spokesman of the Kano State Police command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa stated this in a press statement issued to DAILY POST. He said the development came after the…
Hon. Mohammed Gudaji Kazaure representing Kazaure/Roni/Gwiwa/Yankwashi Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives has said President Muhammadu Buhari has budgeted the sum of over N5.1 trillion to service stolen funds that plunged the nation into debts. He lamented that the bar of corruption battle has been lowered and those who stole funds have escaped only…
Operation HADARIN DAJI forces have neutralized scores of bandits and destroyed their camps within Katsina and Sokoto forests. In Katsina, about ten hideouts in Rugu forest bordering Kankara Local Government Area were bombarded by a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) fighter aircraft. More than 30 bandits died in a camp in Gajere while others sustained varying…
Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State says he has never spent funds belonging to the 20 local government councils in the State. Instead, Gov Abiodun reechoed that his administration had been supporting the local governments with funds to allow them meet their expenses. Abiodun said the clarification became necessary to dispel the rumour in some…
Police tactical operatives in a joint operations at Tsibiri forest in Maradun LGA on Thursday succeeded in the rescue of 187 victims abducted in Rini village of Bakura LGA, Gora village of Maradun LGA, Sabon Birni village and Shinkafi in Shinkafi LGA respectively . These villages are in Zamfara State in northwest Nigeria. A statement…
The fundamental rights suit filed by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, at the Abia State High Court could not hold today. The counsel to Kanu, Aloy Ejimakor, disclosed this in a press release he personally signed and forwarded to DAILY POST on Thursday. Ejimakor said that the case…
Passengers were on Thursday stranded in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital following the withdrawal of services by transport companies. The development, DAILY POST observed, paralysed most business activities in the state. Recall that the national leadership of the Association of Mass Transit Operators (AMTO) had on Wednesday threatened to withdraw services from Ebonyi following an alleged…
Popular Nollywood actor, Chiwetalu Agu had been reported to have been beaten up and arrested by soldiers for wearing an outfit which had a Biafra flag on it. The incident which was captured on video happened at a market place in Onitsha. The video which has made rounds on social media was shared by his…
A renowned spiritual leader and founder of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, His Holiness Olumba Olumba Obu, has again called on Nigerian authorities to return to the 12 states structure she operated in the 1970s. He said this is one way of solving the endless calls for restructuring of the country as well as…
Two police officers, two lawyers and seven other peasants farmers were on Thursday reportedly killed by gunmen who invaded Isu and Onicha-Igboeze communities, in Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. DAILY POST gathered that the cops were reportedly killed in Isu while others were killed in Onicha Igboeze. Investigation revealed that two lawyers were…
The Rivers State government on Thursday called for an increase in revenue allocation accruals to states to encourage them to build their own potential. Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike said this in his keynote address while declaring open the South-South Zonal Public Hearing on the review of the existing revenue allocation. NAN reports. The event was…
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has inaugurated an incidence response facility aimed at addressing incidences of cybercrimes, protecting telecoms infrastructure and encouraging increased participation in the nation’s digital economy. The NCC Center for Computer Security Incident Response is the Commission’s industry-specific intervention, whose objectives are aligned to the National Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy (NCPS) published…
