It started with Kanye and ended with Kim, featuring Emmanuel and Angela in between: this week showed President Trump upending expectations and confounding his critics on an epic scale. But perhaps the most revealing thing about it all was not what it said about the president but instead the light …
Read More »Catholic Bishops ‘Tell Buhari to Resign’
The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign, according to the Punch newspaper. It is in response to 16 Catholics being killed earlier this week by people the bishops suspect are Fulani herdsmen.The victims included two Catholic priests. A reported reprisal attack killed 27 …
Read More »Mike Pompeo confirmed as secretary of state And Sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito
The US Senate has confirmed former CIA director Mike Pompeo as secretary of state, ending a tough confirmation battle. Mr Pompeo had been accused by Democrats of being a war hawk and harbouring anti-Muslim and homophobic views. The Senate voted 57-42 to approve him as America’s top diplomat, the second …
Read More »US President Donald Trump to visit the UK in July
US President Donald Trump is to visit the UK on Friday, 13 July, after previously cancelling a planned trip amid claims he would face protests. It will not be the full-blown state visit Mr Trump was promised when Prime Minister Theresa May visited the White House in January last year. …
Read More »Killings: Reps Summon Buhari, pass vote of no confidence on service chiefs
The House of Representatives during plenary, Wednesday resolved to summon President Muhammadu Buhari over the spate of killings in Benue State and other parts of the country. The decision was unanimously adopted by overwhelming majority of members after a Kano lawmaker, Baballe Bashir (APC, Kano) moved for the amendment of …
Read More »Lazy Nigerian Youths Gets A Page
Controversy over General Muhammadu Buhari’s characterization of Nigerian youths has taken a new dimension with a page being created on Wikipedia in acknowledgment of the social media revolt of young Nigerians against their description, tagged, #LazyNigerianYouths. While speaking at a forum during the just concluded Commonwealth Summit in UK, Buhari had …
Read More »West Virginia Senate candidate wears rival’s campaign hat during debate
It’s unheard of for a Senate candidate to wear campaign swag promoting a political rival. At least, it was unheard of. During a televised debate Tuesday, Don Blankenship, a Republican candidate for Senate in West Virginia, wore a hat that said, in bold lettering: “Tom Willis, U.S. Senate”. Tom Willis …
Read More »Google is giving Gmail a makeover
The Gmail interface is comfortably familiar. Unless you’ve started using the more simplified, predictive Inbox app, Google’s ubiquitous email client has stayed more or less the same for quite a while. Today, however, Google announced a bevy of updates including the first major redesign of Gmail’s web interface in years. …
Read More »CAN Calls for Nationwide Protest Against Herdsmen Killings
The Christian Association of Nigeria, has called for a nationwide protest against killings and bloodshed in the country. The CAN President, Rev. Olasupo Ayokunle, in a statement on Wednesday urged Christians to hold peaceful protests within their church premises on Sunday April 29, 2018 He made the call against the …
Read More »Protesters Shutdown Benue Over Killings
Makurdi, the capital of Benue State has been brought to a standstill by protesters over the ongoing killings in the state. The protesters, DAILY POST gathered have taken over major streets of the state, calling on the federal government to come to their aide. DAILY POST reports that over 100 …
Read More »35 Killed By Herdsmen In Benue Village
No fewer than 35 persons have been killed and several other still missing after suspected herdsmen attacked Tse Umenger in Mbadwem Council Ward of Guma LGA, Benue State. DAILY POST gathered that the heavily armed men, numbering over 50, stormed the village on Tuesday around 7pm and set the entire …
Read More »US State Department: Buhari Administration Encourages Human Right Abuses
Just days before President Muhammadu Buhari meets his American counterpart, Donald Trump, in Washington DC, the United States government has released a report indicting the administration of the Nigerian leader of the festering human rights abuses in the country. The US Department of State in its “Country Reports on Human …
Read More »APC: The next crisis
After months of dithering procrastination, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC is set to hold its national convention in Abuja with the prognosis of a war of attrition over a new national leadership with two former Edo State governors pitched in battle. Probably the last time Rotimi Amaechi and Comrade …
Read More »General Buhari on Nigerian Youths -Tribune Editorial
Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari was at the Guild Hall, London, where he addressed participants at the Commonwealth Business Forum on trade and investment and how to bring about sustainable development in Commonwealth countries. As it happens, it was not the president’s keynote speech to the well-attended forum that made …
Read More »“Lazy Nigerian Youths” And Political Illiteracy
According to estimates 170 million votes (30 million during the final week) were recorded during the recently concluded Big Brother Nigeria finals, earning the South African production company N5.1 billion (of which N900million was made in one week). Notably, viewers were billed to cast their votes. In comparison, the 2015 …
Read More »‘Nigeria Constitution is now suspended As Anachy Looms’ – Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose
Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has raised the alarm that Nigeria was drifting towards a state of anarchy, calling on the international community to intervene and rescue the country from turning to a war zone, where mass killings is a usual occurrence. Fayose, reacting to the killing of 18 …
Read More »Row in House of Reps Over $496m Super Tucano Fighter Jets
The House of Representatives plenary became a rowdy session this morning over calls for impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari by a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Kingsley Chinda. The row was over the payment of $496 million to the United States Government by the Buhari administration for the much …
Read More »‘Tyrannical’ judge told ‘not to return’ after she berates defendant who died three days later
A Florida judge was relieved of her duties Friday after berating a woman in a wheelchair who was having trouble breathing due to two medical conditions and who died at home three days after the encounter. Broward County Circuit Judge Merrilee Ehrlich gave defendant Sandra Faye Twiggs, 59, who was …
Read More »15 Senators Were Involved In The Plot To Steal The Mace & Sack The Senate Leader
INVESTIGATIONS by Saturday Vanguard have revealed that last Wednesday’s invasion of the National Assembly was a scripted plot to force the reinstatement of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and instigate the removal of the Senator Bukola Saraki leadership of the Senate. It was learned that the conspiracy stirred by 15 senators was …
Read More »The Politics Of Fulani Herdsmen
It is funny how suddenly the story of the Fulani herdsmen is changing from one thing to another. Initially the Federal Government of President Muhammadu Buhari told us that the killings going on in Benue was as a result of anti-grazing law. They heaped all the blames on Governor Ortom …
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