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Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church has declared war on those behind the ongoing killings in Plateau State.  The fiery cleric, while speaking during the Covenant Hours of Prayer, monitored by DAILY POST on Tuesday, affirmed that those ...

The truck fell on 3 commercial buses and a private car under the bridge. See photos from the accident bellow.

President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Morocco on a two-day working visit to the country. During the visit, he would meet with the King of Morocco, HRM Mohammed VI, to discuss socio-economic matters affecting the two countries. The meeting would ...

An unidentified woman on Sunday, plunged in to the lagoon on 3rd Mainland, in Lagos. As at 8.45pm, efforts were still on to recuperate her body, without luck. There have been however, conflicting accounts regarding the way the incident happened. ...

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, has implored the Federal government to return power to regionals as it was practised before the military coup of 1966, saying the idea of federal character has eroded merit in the country. Oba ...

A Sharia court sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna on Thursday ordered the remand of one Abubakar Mustapha for allegedly enticing and wooing a married woman. Mustapha had pleaded not guilty to the charges, which contravened section 226 of the Kaduna ...

The Inspector – General of Police , Ibrahim Idris , has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered him to redouble efforts to tackle the killings around the world.  Idris disclosed this yesterday at the state handover of 150 operational ...

A Nigerian national identified simply as Chidi was killed by suspected hijackers in South Africa.  Based on his friend, Taiwo Saheed who’s situated in Pretoria, the incident happened last Sunday night in Mpumalanga Nelspruit. He wrote; “Sad news again gone ...

The former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Charles Soludo has decried a predicament where only eight percent of the Nigerian population is controlling ninety percent of the nation’s wealth. Speaking at the maiden District conference of ...

  The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose , has described President Muhammadu Buhari as a captured president who has been reduced to offering condolences to Nigerians slaughtered by herdsmen as opposed to taking firm action to avoid the atrocities. Reacting ...