The traditional ruler of Amurri ancient kingdom in Nkanu West Council Area of Enugu State, His Royal Majesty, Igwe Charles Egbo Nwoye, has called on the Igbo not to allow their culture and tradition go into extinction. The monarch said posterity won’t forgive the custodians if they let such happen. Speaking during the 2024 annual popular ‘Oriri Anu Amurri’, which is a combination of their new yam festival held at the community’s market square, the monarch insisted that the history of a people would be incomplete without their culture and tradition. He urged traditional rulers in Igbo land to keep…
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Three police officers, who allegedly beat a student of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Suleiman Olayinka to death at Tanke Bridge in Ilorin, the state capital, have been arrested and detained. The spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Ejire Adeyemi Toun, disclosed this in a statement in Ilorin on Friday. Reports reaching DAILY POST indicated that the incident occurred on Tuesday around 2 p.m. when the victim got off a motorcycle and was approached by three officers who then dragged him to the ground. An eyewitness claimed that the victim had arrived to collect N1,000 he had already…
Kwara State Government has restricted some categories of vehicles from making use of Ahmadu Bello Way, GRA, Ilorin, the state capital, DAILY POST reports. The restriction notice was issued on Friday, by the state Ministry of Works and Transport, with a directive to Kwara Road Traffic Management Agency, KWARTMA, to commence enforcement with immediate effect. To this effect, the Ministry has commenced the erection of restriction signages at some designated spots from Challenge Area through Ahmadu Bello Way, which links the seat of power, the state capital. According to a statement by the Commissioner for Works and Transport, Abdulquawiy Olododo,…
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, Sani Musa, says President Bola Tinubu’s economic reforms, especially the floating of the naira and removal of fuel subsidy, were the best things to happen to Nigeria. DAILY POST recalls that upon his inauguration and assumption of office in May 2023, President Tinubu ended a long-standing fuel subsidy that cost the government billions of dollars a year and also liberalised the naira currency in a bid to draw more investment. According to government officials, the reforms were needed to revive the country’s economy and investors have applauded the moves, but Nigerians are…
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. There are reports that the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical is set to begin fuel exports to South Africa, Angola, and Namibia. Sources said the management of the 650,000-barrel per-day capacity refinery is at advanced stages of talks with the countries to start lifting fuel. 2. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, among other academic unions, will meet the reconstituted committee on the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement with university-based unions next week. ASUU’s National President, Emmanuel Osodeke, made this known on Friday. 3.…
Former Chelsea midfielder, John Obi Mikel, has said that Arsenal and Manchester United target, Viktor Gyokeres, is ready to play in the Premier League. Gyokeres has been outstanding for the Portuguese side, Sporting CP, since joining the club from Coventry City in 2023. Gyokeres has gone on to score 66 goals with 19 assists from 67 games for the club. Manchester United fans are hoping that Sporting Ruben Amorim, who is taking over at Old Trafford next week, brings the Swede to the club. Manchester United have struggled to score goals this season, with just nine in 10 Premier League…
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed two security officials comprising a member of the Katsina State Community Watch Corps and one vigilante member in Jibia Local Government Area of the State. Five persons also sustained gunshot injuries as a result of the simultaneous coordinated attacks carried out by the hoodlums in three quarters in Jibia township on Thursday November 7. It was gathered that the hoodlums launched the attacks at about 2115 hrs (9:15 pm), on Ka’ida, Unguwar One Boy, and Danmarke quarters, all in Jibia township, Jibia LGA, Katsina State. The state police spokesman, ASP Abubakar Sadiq confirmed…
Detectives of the Kwara State police command, have recovered the severed head of the Okada rider, Rafiu Akao, who was murdered by three assailants. The severed head was thrown into a nearby stream after the bloody act, at Asunlere community in Oke-Oyi town of Ilorin East Local Government Area of Kwara State. A statement by the spokesperson of the police command, DSP Ejire Adeyemi Toun in Ilorin, on Friday, disclosed that “investigators at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Ilorin, recovered the dismembered part of the remains of late Rafiu Akao (M) 34yrs who was brutally murdered by Peter Samuel (M),…
The outgoing Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki has said that his administration is leaving behind a debt of almost N27 billion to pay for projects and obligations. Obaseki, who disclosed this at the inauguration of 10-man caretaker committee members of the State’s PDP in Benin City on Friday, however, alleged that the All Progressives Congress, APC, is borrowing between N2 billion and N5 billion to finance the inauguration of the new governor. DAILY POST reports that Senator Monday Okpebholo, the candidate of the APC, who defeated the PDP candidate, Asue Ighodalo in the September 21, 2024 governorship election in…
Following the recent bomb explosion at International Market Orlu, which claimed two lives and injured many, the Imo State Police Command has organized a one-day for officers on the identification, handling, and disposal of Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs. A press statement issued from the desk of the command’s public relations officer, ASP Henry Okoye informed that the training was Led by CSP M.A. Ogini, Officer in Charge of the Anti-Bomb Squad. He maintained that the training aimed to improve officers’ ability to detect and neutralize IED threats. According to the press release, officers from all divisions and area commands across…