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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…

Veteran Nollywood actress, Joke Silva, has detailed her last moments with late singer Onyeka Onwenu. DAILY POST reports that ace singer Onyeka Onwenu died in July 2024, after she collapsed at the 80th birthday party of CEO of Emzor Pharmaceuticals, Stella Okolie. She was buried on August 30 at the Ebony Vaults in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State. During her latest interview with media personality, WithChude, Joke Silva narrated her final moments with Onwenu. Silva, who witnessed the incident, disclosed that Onwenu died nearly two hours after she collapsed and not immediately. “We were at the party together at…

The Managing Director of National Hydro Power Producing Areas Development Commission, N-HYPPADEC, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq Yelwa, has warned beneficiaries of the Youth Transportation Programme, YTP, that failure to provide guarantor letters will result in withholding of starter packs. Yelwa gave the warning at a YTP training workshop, held in collaboration with the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, in Minna, Niger State. He said the measure was adopted to prevent beneficiaries from selling their starter kits immediately after receiving them. The MD noted that against this background, the Commission decided to approach the CAC to ensure that each beneficiary’s business is formally…

The Senator representing Borno South, Mohammed Ali Ndume, has appealed to the military under the Theatre Command, North East ‘Operation Hadin Kai’ and other security agencies to intensify more efforts towards clearing remnants of Boko Haram members in Borno State. According to him, Boko Haram insurgents are still hibernating around Sambisa forest, Mandara mountains and other hideouts in border communities within Gwoza and the Republic of Cameroon. The lawmaker said pockets of attacks recently perpetrated by the terrorists are still posing serious economic setbacks to resilient farmers newly resettled in liberated communities of Ngoshe, Kirawa, Warabe, Wala, Pulka and even…

The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has called on the federal government to stick to the claim by the Minister of State for Petroleum, Mr Heineken Lokpobiri, that President Bola Tinubu administration did not instruct the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, to increase the fuel pump price by ordering the corporation to reverse the announced increment. In a statement signed by the organisation’s spokesman, Comrade Jare Ajayi, Afenifere asserted that Nigerians are currently going through a lot of challenges as a result of the biting socio-economic crunch and the attendant hardships. “It is therefore the wrong time to come up…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared that Nigeria is not difficult to manage, blaming the country’s woes on a lack of quality leadership. He maintained that the country is a complex one that must be well understood to be managed properly. The former president spoke on Wednesday in Lagos at the maiden memorial lecture in honour of the late Akintola Williams, themed, “Leadership Dynamics: Current Realities and Way Forward.” The lecture was organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, in Lagos. “I always say Nigeria is a complex country. You must understand that. But Nigeria is not…

The Bauchi State House of Assembly has directed the State Shari’ah Commission to expedite its investigation into allegations of a suspected meeting involving gays and lesbians in Bauchi. The directive followed claims made by an Islamic scholar from Kano, Dr Abdallah Usman Gadon-Kaya, in a viral social media video. In the unverified video which circulated on social media last week, the cleric claimed that gays and lesbians from across Northern Nigeria gathered at a facility in Bauchi for a 10-day orientation. Although, Dr Gadon-Kaya did not specify the exact date and location of the alleged event, he maintained that he…

The Lagos State Government has extended its work-from-home policy for workers for the next three months to alleviate the hardship orchestrated by the hike in petrol pump prices. The State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu approved the extension in a circular signed by the state Head of Service, Bode Agoro, on Wednesday. Recall that the governor had on February 28, directed that the workers operate remotely on some days. He directed that workers on grade levels 01 to 14 were allowed to work from home for two days a week, while those on grade levels 15 to 17 were allowed to work…