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According to Luke Onofiok, Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Judiciary, the Chief Justice of the Federation, Ibrahim Tanko, receives a monthly salary of N279,497. Onofiok mentioned this on Wednesday, October 6, when proposing a motion on the ...

Hoodlums have attacked police officers at a checkpoint on the Obasanjo-Itele road, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State and carted away an AK-47 rifle. It was gathered that the incident occurred in the early hours of Sunday when some ...

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, says Nigeria should be competing with developed countries considering its years as an independent entity.Nigeria will mark its 61st Independence Day anniversary on October 1.Speaking in Port Harcourt, Rivers capital, on Sunday, Wike expressed ...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the Federal Government is borrowing to build world-class infrastructure and not for recurrent expenditure.The Minister disclosed this on Thursday in his opening address at the town hall meeting organised ...

A founding member of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, Mr. Ndubisi Igwekala, popularly known as Agu Biafra, has condemned the continuous attack on residents of South-East by those enforcing the Monday sit-at-home order. DAILY POST ...

The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has said Nigeria can not afford another tribalistic leader like President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.NEF Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, made the remark while stressing that Nigeria’s next president should not be ...

Bitcoin (and only BTC) separates money from state. This was never possible before. We’re seeing what this means in real time. Max Keiser tweeted the qoute above and also shared to his followers ‘The new global superpowers’. The countries on ...

The National Industrial Court, Abuja division, has ordered the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to suspend its nationwide strike. The doctors had commenced the strike on August 1 over “irregular payment of salaries”, among other issues. Efforts by the ...

I am sure you are following what is going on in Jos. I asked my friend in Jos to update me as to the true situation on the Plateau. At times what we read on social media could be vastly ...

About 31 lawyers have expressed their interest in defending a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, suspended in connection with a $1.1m scam involving a self-confessed fraudster, Ramon Abbas a.k.a Hushpuppi.Barrister Bappah Salisu, who spoke for the group of lawyers ...