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What does the average Nigerian voting adult want? Nothing? Absolutely nothing? Over the past few months, many friends and colleagues have asked me questions like: “Who are we voting for?” “Who will win the 2019 election?” ” Who are we supporting?” My answers have varied from question to question to ...

Ex-president Goodluck Jonathan says Nigeria’s economy slipped into recession after he left office because the then opposition used “their malicious propaganda” to tear the country’s economy into shreds. Jonathan said this in his book entitled ‘My Transition Hours’. The major opposition in the build-...

President Muhammadu Buhari says 12 million Nigerians have ventured into rice production in the last two years. Buhari, who was represented by Audu Ogbeh, the minister for agriculture, made this known while speaking at the 4th Nigeria Rice Investment Forum in Abuja on Wednesday. “The impact of our in...

Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, said this in a statement issued by Samuel Olowookere, director of press in the ministry. The minister on Wednesday met with labour leaders who were part of the tripartite committee on the new national minimum wage to give them an update on the governme...

President Muhammadu Buhari has criticized Nigerian elite for remaining silent in the face of alleged misrule of the country by the Peoples Democratic Party between 1999 and 2015. He said while they allowed Nigeria to be mismanaged in 16 years without raising a voice in consternation, they have been ...

The Federal Road Safety Corps has disowned fake employment letters currently in circulation purportedly emanating from the government agency. On September 13, 2018, a press release was issued by the Corps distancing itself from such appointment letters. According to the Corps Public Education Office...

Publisher of Ovation magazine and former presidential candidate, Dele Momodu, has revealed how the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, abandoned its candidate, Ademola Adeleke in the last governorship election in Osun State. He made this known in a statement on Saturday in which he also outlined the best...

ABUJA—THE organised labour has suspended the ongoing strike with effect from today, Sunday. National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Ayuba Wabba announced this while briefing journalists at the Labour House Abuja. Wabba said that the organised labour has gotten firm commitment from th...

Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has alerted Nigerians on the challenges and danger associated with the misuse of what he described as “today’s world of social media.’’ The president, who raised the alarm in his national broadcast to mark Nigeria’s 58th Independence Anniversary in Abuja on Monday,...

President Muhammadu Buhari has invited A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu and Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode to Abuja, DAILY POST can authoritatively report. The meeting will hold at the presidential villa this afternoon. A source close to the presidency to...

Senate President Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives, were conspicuously absent at the Eagle Square, Abuja, during the 2018 Independence Day parade. Since 2015, this is the first time that both men would miss the programme orgamised on an annual basis. President ...

Femi Adesina, spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari, says Nigerians share in the blame of the country’s bad ranking in Transparency International’s (TI) corruption perception index (CPI). In 2017, Nigeria dropped from 136 in 2016 to 148 on the index of TI. The ranking was seen as a blow to the cur...