Former Niger Delta militant leader, Asari Dokubo, has said he’s disappointed that President Bola Tinubu supports Nyesom Wike, the FCT Minister, to destabilise Rivers State. Dokubo, who spoke on Tuesday while fielding questions on Arise Television’s Morning Show programme, alleged that Tinubu allowed Wike to run amok and procure judgment to destabilise the peace of Rivers State. The ex-militant said he’s not seeking any personal or selfish interests from President Tinubu. According to him, he feels totally disappointed as a stakeholder in Rivers State with what’s happening in the state. He said: “And what is happening in Rivers State where…
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The Minister of Defence, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru, has directed the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, to ensure that adequate security is provided for the repairs of the affected electricity towers in the country. According to the New Agency of Nigeria (NAN) report, the grid collapse had resulted in widespread power outages across Northern Nigeria, causing significant socioeconomic disruption in the region. The minister issued the directives in conformity with President Bola Tinubu, who showed concern over the recent grid collapse due to third-party interference that put people in darkness. A statement on Tuesday in Abuja by Mr…
Former Niger Delta militant leader, Asari Dokubo, has revealed that President Bola Tinubu once asked him if he was interested in a pipeline contract. Dokubo, however, stated that he told Tinubu he wasn’t interested. The ex-Ijaw militant made this known on Tuesday while speaking on Arise Television’s Morning Show program. Dokubo also added that he offered to assist those involved in the pipeline contract in any way he could to help the government succeed. He said: “I’ve met President Ahmed Bola Tinubu. I met him both on and off camera. He asked me, ‘Are you interested in a pipeline?’ He…
The Ogun State Government has shut down Obada Grammar Institution in Obada, Idi-emi, following the death of Monday Ariyo, an SS2 student of the school. DAILY POST reported that Ariyo died last Friday at the Federal Medical Center, Abeokuta, after a teacher allegedly flogged him 24 strokes of the cane and asked him to perform 162 frog jumps. The teacher, who was arrested and suspended, reportedly flogged the deceased over his response regarding a trash can brought to his classroom. The Principal of the school, Mrs. Tamrat Onaolapo, who was also issued a query for allowing such punishment on students…
Cross River State will be conducting local government council and ward elections this weekend, November 2, 2024. The state Commissioner of Police, CP Gryogon Augustine Grimah, has assured a peaceful conduct of both elections. Addressing journalists shortly after the state security meeting presided over by the governor, Senator Prince Edet Otu, Grimah assured citizens that the environment would be conducive for all to exercise their franchise. Grimah, who was posted out to Kaduna State and replaced by another CP Opara but reinstated after a week, stated that all relevant security agencies in the state have fully deployed their resources to…
The kidnappers of Rev Fr Thomas Oyode, a Catholic priest and Rector of Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary School, Ivanokpodi, in Agenegbode, Etsako East Local Government of Edo State, have demanded a ransom of N200 million. DAILY POST reports that the Catholic priest was abducted on Sunday at about 7 p.m. at the seminary school. Oyode was said to have told the abductors to take him in place of the two students of the institution they had kidnapped. It was gathered that the kidnappers made contact with the Catholic Diocese of Auchi, led by Bishop Gabriel Dunia, on Monday evening, demanding…
A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has dismissed President Bola Tinubu’s cost-cutting measures, describing them as deceitful. Frank, in a statement issued Tuesday, described the austerity measures purportedly aimed at reducing the cost of governance as fake and deceitful. He recalled that Tinubu had, in January 2024, ordered a 60 percent slash in his entourage and that of his wife, the Vice President, and his wife while on a foreign trip. He said that while the President limited his delegation on such trips to 20, the Vice President, First Lady, and…
The National Orientation Agency, NOA, in Akwa Ibom State has said the government traced six Mpox cases to one household in the state. This made the government to begin a sensitisation exercise to sensitize the people on the prevalence and prevention of Mpox disease in the state. This is coming as a report from the Ministry of Health indicated that Akwa Ibom State recorded eight cases of the Mpox outbreak. Speaking with newsmen on Monday, the NOA coordinator in Akwa Ibom State, Mr Mkpoutom Mkpoutom, said the NCDC was able to trace the six cases in one household after they…
The Minister of Works, Engr David Umahi, has said the pressure on the naira in the foreign exchange market and the removal of fuel subsidy have impacted earlier projections of what the Federal Government would need to complete inherited ongoing road projects nationwide. Umahi stated this on Monday at a press briefing, noting that President Bola Tinubu’s administration would now require over N19 trillion to complete these projects. According to him, the new cost represents an increase of N3 trillion over the N16 trillion projected for the projects as of August 2024. Umahi had said that the funding gap to…
A 34-year-old man, identified as Segun Adegbite, was found macheted to death at a construction site near WitchTech Factory on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway. The state police spokesperson, Omolola Odutola, confirmed this to DAILY POST on Tuesday. Odutola stated that the incident was reported to the Sagamu division of the command by one Adedeji Adegbola. According to her, Adegbola reported that the local security guard attached to the construction site, identified as Hassan, informed him at about 10:00 a.m. on Monday that a violent altercation was taking place between the deceased and some unidentified persons. She said, “The incident was reported…