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Jonathan’s $1bn loan request: Why it should be rejected – Fasehun tells...

The Founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Dr. Fredrick Fasehun, has urged Nigerians to reject the request by President Goodluck Jonathan for a loan of $1bn to fight insecurity. While speaking with...

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Too Much Sleep Is Bad For Your Health – A Professor Reveals

The general opinion we are mostly used to is that we need to sleep more to remain healthy and function right.But an expert warns that getting too much sleep could actually be bad for your health. Shawn...

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Human parts market: Our clients are politicians, businessmen –Suspects

 Kwara State Police Command has arrested eight suspects in connection with the human parts markets uncovered recently in Ilorin and Tabira village, both in Kwara State. Five of the suspects were...

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Nigeria May Split Soon, Bishop Oyedepo warns

Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church aka Winners Chapel, has warned that Nigeria is on the verge of breaking up if some issues are not quickly addressed. In an interview with Punch, Oyedepo...

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Attack on Buhari: Troops arrest suspected bomber disguised as woman…See pictures

Information reaching us: DailyPost can report that troops are holding a man suspected to be connected with the explosion targeted at General Buhari on Wednesday in kaduna state. The young man who was...

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UPDATE: Controversial Mbu and four superior officers make list for Police IG job

As the search for the new Inspector General of Police enters its final phase, indications emerged on Thursday that the Police Service Commission has submitted the files of two Deputy Inspectors...

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Iraq jihadists blow up ‘Jonah’s tomb’ in Mosul

MOSUL (AFP) – The new jihadist rulers of Iraq’s northern city of Mosul on Thursday completely levelled one its most well-known shrines, an official and witnesses told AFP. The Nabi Yunus shrine was...

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Police, is the best job in Nigeria

By Esther Onyegbula It was pomp and pageantry recently at the Delta State Police Command Headquarters when the state police boss, Ikechukwu Ayo Aduba, bowed out after 35 years of dedicated and active...

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Stop insulting Jonathan, Presidency warns

By Henry Umoru THE Presidency has warned those attacking President Goodluck Jonathan to put a stop to that against the backdrop that any insult melted on the president amounts to embarrassing the...

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It Is Wrong Morally, Legally And Financially For Jonathan To Put Himself...

Every Nigerian citizen has the right to life as outlined in the 1999 constitution. Further in the constitution, it was profoundly cast and set in stone under “the executive” that the president shall be...

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Kaduna Blasts: Killing Buhari, Bauchi would have set Nigeria on fire –...

By Henry Umoru, Assistant Political Editor THE Presidency yesterday expressed thanks to God that the perpetrators of Wednesday’s twin bomb blasts targeted at both the former Head of State, General...

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Book Haram: FG orders purchase of 40 Military, transport helicopters

In a determined effort to eliminate terrorism by routing insurgents from their hideouts in parts of the North East and North West once and for all, the Federal Government has placed purchase orders for...

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Panic as Ebola victim dies in Lagos •Govt collects flight manifest to screen...

A Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, quarantined in a private medical facility in Lagos, for suspected infection of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) was reported dead on Friday triggering panic across the country...

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Senator Ngige says 2nd Niger Bridge is a fraud, vows to take governorship...

Senator Chris Ngige, representing Anambra Central Senatorial zone has described the construction of the second Niger Bridge by the federal government as a huge fraud meant to rip off the people of the...

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2015: Expect the worst –Balarabe Musa

Second Republic governor of old Kaduna State and leader of the nascent Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, Alhaji Balare Musa may be versed in the socio-political dynamics of Nigeria, but he is averse to...

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Shekau’s kingdom: Boko Haram control more than half of Borno

Boko Haram insurgents are daily becoming more daring in their attacks, moving into strategic towns and villages, killing, maiming and sacking residents in northeast Borno State. The militant group has...

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Boko Haram: Day devil descended on Kaduna

For those familiar with the activities of the Boko Haram, the twin blasts of Wednesday, July 23, 2014, could certainly not have come as a surprise. If anything, to this set of people, including this...

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I did not say I will kill anybody – Akpabio Cries Out

Governor Godswill has flayed media reports in the press and online insinuating that he said he will kill Governorship aspirants. Reacting to the reports which he described as another smear campaign by...

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Ebola: The enemy at your door!

West Africa is gripped by the worst outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)  in history. The deadly virus, which has over 90 percent fatality, could cross borders to more African nations and even Europe....

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Don’t be cowed by terrorism, Jonathan tells Nigerians after Ramadan

As Muslims around the world celebrate Eid-el-Fitri, which marks the end of Ramadan fasting, President Goodluck Jonathan called on Nigerians Saturday to portray love, honesty and piety in dealing with...

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