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Super Eagles goalkeeper, Maduka Okoye has tipped Rangers to retain the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, title. The Flying Antelopes won the NPFL title for the eighth time last season. Okoye believed that the club have all its takes to win the title again. The Udinese shot stopper also expressed his affection for the eight-time NPFL champions. “When I was younger my dad used to come back from Nigeria with Rangers shirts when he visited so that’s the only team I’ve supported from here,” Okoye to AjSilver. “I heard they won the title last season so I think they can…

Unidentified gunmen suspected to be bandits in their numbers attacked Magamar Jibia border town in Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State, kidnapping at least three persons and leaving five others injured. It was gathered that the bandits were armed with sophisticated guns including AK-47 rifles. A member of the Jibia Security Committee, who spoke to newsmen on Thursday, said that the bandits overpowered the security personnel who were deployed to repel them. According to him, the hoodlums stormed the area on Wednesday night at about 11:45 pm, shooting sporadically to scare the residents, most of whom were preparing to…

A body constituted to extend mercy to deserving prisoners, the Adamawa State Jail Delivery Committee, has excluded certain categories of inmates from those to be considered for pardon. The committee is declining pardon to inmates accused of ‘shila gangsterism’, perpetuated by young men named in local parlance as Shila Boys who specialize in robbing residents of phones, cash and other personal possessions, often in broad daylight. The committee has also excluded people charged with kidnapping, rape and armed robbery. The committee, headed by the state’s Chief Judge, Justice Hapsat Abdulrahaman, declined pardon to the convened inmates when it visited Yolde…

The Federal High Court in Abuja has reserved judgment in the suit filed by the All Progressives Congress, APC, against the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, against the conduct of local government election in Rivers State. Justice Peter Lifu said that a date for the judgment would be communicated to parties to the suit. The judge on Thursday reserved judgment date after counsel to all parties adopted their various legal positions for and against the suit. During proceedings on Thursday, the court listened to all pending preliminary applications including those seeking joinder brought by the Social Democratic Party, SDP, and…

An erstwhile Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South leader, Edwin Clark has petitioned the Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun, to urgently arrest and prosecute the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. The Ijaw leader, in a letter to the IGP, read on Thursday during a press briefing at his Asokoro residence, asked Egbetokun to arrest Wike over his threat to set fire in the states of governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. DAILY POST recalls that Wike, while speaking at the PDP secretariat in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Saturday during the party’s state congress,…

Afrobeats star Ayra Starr has condemned the brutal murder of Idowu Christianah, a 300-level student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, FUNAAB. DAILY POST reports that Christianah was allegedly killed by her friend, Ayomide Adeleye, a suspected serial killer. Ayra Starr in a post via her official X  condemned the act and called for swift justice for the victim. The singer emphasised the urgent need to address violence against women, asserting that they deserve better protection and treatment. She wrote, “Stop killing us! Stop raping us! Women deserve better #JusticeForChristianah,’ Ayra Starr’s outcry follows revelations from an ongoing investigation…

A FIFPRO report has determined that footballers at the top level are under increasing “mental stress” due to fixture workload. It pointed to Erling Haaland’s “machine-like” start to the season with Manchester City as proof that there is the need for a prolonged period of rest. Haaland has scored seven times already in three fixtures for the Premier League champions, including back-to-back hat-tricks. The 24-year-old enjoyed a full summer break due to Norway’s absence at Euro 2024. On the flip side, Haaland’s City team-mate, Phil Foden and Jude Bellingham of Real Madrid have already missed matches this season through injury…

The 2023 Labour Party, LP, governorship candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has expressed optimism that the Labour Party would not only win but take over power in Lagos in 2027. Rhodes-Vivour made the declaration while fielding questions from newsmen in Umuahia, Abia State capital, where he attended an extended stakeholders’ meeting of the Labour Party. According to him, the party had been made more formidable to take over Lagos State, adding that it has been strategising and consolidating on its gains since its impressive outing in Lagos during the 2023 polls, where it swept the former Nigerian capital during…

Popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Aliyu Ibrahim has expressed sadness over the current economic reality occasioned by the increase in the pump price of Petroleum Motor Spirit, PMS, otherwise called petrol. DAILY POST recalls that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, on Tuesday increased fuel price from N617 per litre to N897. The development has been causing chaos across the country with transportation fares and prices of goods and services skyrocketing. In a viral video, the Islamic scholar, who lamented the situation, described the hike as madness. According to him, the development will cost President Bola Tinubu his re-election bid…

American pop star Lady Gaga has revealed that it was her mom who introduced her to her fiancé, Michael Polansky. The 38-year-old singer disclosed in a recent interview with Vogue that her mom informed her that she had found a husband for her after meeting the 46-year-old. Gaga said she never imagined that it would be her mom who would find the “most perfect person” for her. She said, “My mom met him and she said to me, ‘I think I just met your husband,’ and I said, ‘I’m not ready to meet my husband!’ I could never have imagined…