A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court has sentenced a 25-year-old carpenter, James Gabriel, to three months’ imprisonment for buying a stolen Tecno cell phone. The convict, a resident of Sabo Tasha Kaduna, had pleaded guilty to a charge of dishonestly receiving and purchasing stolen property and begged for leniency. Magistrate...
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The National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday revealed that Consumer Price Index which measures inflation has increased by 16.47% in January 2021. This is the highest since April 2017. The report also shows that food prices, food inflation also rose to 20.57 per cent in January while core inflation,...
An anti-terrorism court in Bangladesh has sentenced five Islamist militants to death and another to life in prison for killing a secularist writer nearly six years ago in Dhaka, officials said on Tuesday. The militants, members of banned Ansar al-Islam militant outfit, were convicted of killing Avijit Roy, a...
North Korea have allegedly tried to hack into Pfizer’s systems and steal COVID-19 technology and treatment, a report have said. Yonhap news Agency reported on Tuesday, citing the South Korean intelligence service. The National Intelligence Service revealed this information at a closed door session of the National Assembly’s intelligence...
President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Senate to confirm Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This was disclosed in a statement written on Tuesday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina. In a letter to...
Former Manchester United starlet Ravel Morrison has admitted to stealing Red Devils legends Rio Ferdinand and Wayne Rooney’s boots so that he could feed his family. Morrison, 28, was tipped by many, including Sir Alex Ferguson, for superstardom. But after making just three appearances for United, the club he...
As part of its concerted effort to address the quit notice issued to Fulani herders in the South-West, The Northern Governors Forum (NGF) and elders have met in Abuja to discuss the way forward. Addressing newsmen after their meeting on Monday, the Chairman of NGF and Governor of Plateau,...
An attempt by suspected armed robbers to attack a new generation bank along the Market Road in Ughelli, Delta State, yesterday, was foiled. The incident, which resulted in sporadic gunshots in the area is coming less than 24 hours after a gang of unidentified gunmen killed a police inspector...
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has replied his counterpart from Bauchi State, Governor Bala Mohammed who recently backed herdsmen carrying AK-47 and other weapons. The Governor spoke during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, questioning Mohammed’s comment at this point in time in the country....
Authorities of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, have finally taken action against the lecturer accused of impregnating one of his students. This came a few days after DAILY POST reported the incident and the earlier refusal of the institution to act on a petition sent to it by...
Anthony Joshua has teased that he might join WWE once his boxing career is over in a recent interview. In an interview with Alternative Sport, the boxer from Watford expressed some interest in working with WWE in the near future. When asked if Joshua is a better UFC fighter...
An international fraudster, Obinwanne Okeke better known as Invictus, who was once listed on the Forbes Africa 30 Under 30, will on Tuesday (today) be sentenced by a Virginia Court in the United States. Okeke, who was on August 6, 2019, arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),...
The Nigerian Military Troops in conjunction with the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) have eliminated 81 Boko Haram fighters in Sambisa Forest axis. However, one soldier died from landmine the sect planted. The troops of Sector 1, comprising 21 and 26 Brigades, supported by MNJTF, cleared many locations terrorists...
An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan on Monday ordered the Alajaawa of Ajaawa in Ogo-Oluwa Local Government of the state, Oba Thompson Oyetunji to vacate his stool, and stop parading himself as the monarch of the town. The court also ordered the governor of the state and...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi- The current crisis across the country involving herders is caused by the need for arable land and growth in population, the Nigerian Ambassador to Germany, Yusuf Tuggar, has stated. According to him, education and a better approach to pastoralism are some of the ways to...
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, has said Nigeria tops the list of out-of-school children in the world. She said the alarming figure informed the decision of the Federal Government to set up a committee that would develop plans to address the...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said that the proliferation of private universities in the country would not solve the problems of access and quality education. While reacting to the newly approved 20 private universities by the National Universities Commission, national president, ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, in an...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has called for the immediate cancellation of the ongoing All Progressives Congress, (APC) membership registration and revalidation exercise. Alhaji Lai Mohammed made the call while speaking with journalists shortly after revalidating his membership of the party in Irepodun Local Government...
South Korea has concluded plans to purchase coronavirus vaccines for 23 million more people. Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun announced the plans on Tuesday, a day after the government said delays and efficacy concerns meant fewer people would be vaccinated in the first quarter of the year. The deals include...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Government has extended the suspension earlier placed on Nigerian flights to March 10, 2021. This was disclosed in a travel advisory posted on the website of Emirates airline, the official carrier of the UAE, on Sunday. “In line with government directives, passenger services from...