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The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has directed the reconvening of plenary for an emergency sitting on Tuesday, February 10, 2026. The announcement was made on Sunday in a statement signed by the Clerk of the Senate, Emmanuel Odo. He urged all Senators to be present at 12:00 pm. The statement reads “The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has directed the reconvening of plenary for an emergency sitting on Tuesday, February 10th, 2026.” Reasons for the emergency session have not been disclosed. However, DAILY POST recalls that the move comes shortly after the Senate, on February 4, rejected…

A legal consultant to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Aloy Ejimakor, has criticised those calling on a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Peter Obi, to abandon his 2027 presidential ambition. Ejimakor described the calls as “cowardly and duplicitous”. Ejimakor said claims that President Bola Tinubu controls the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and security agencies should not be used to discourage Obi’s aspirations. Posting on X, Ejimakor noted that history contradicts such reasoning, recalling that former President Goodluck Jonathan, despite being the incumbent with control of state machinery, lost the 2015 presidential election…

Operatives of the Edo State Security Corps, ESSC, have arrested a 38-year-old suspected armed robber in Benin City. DAILY POST reports that the suspect identified as Sadiq Mohammed, from Kogi State, allegedly belonged to a four-man gang terrorising residents of Oluku, Ugbowo and the Uselu axis in the state capital. The Deputy Commander, Operations of the Corps, Richard Balogun, who confirmed the incident, however, said that some officers of the Corps sustained gunshot injuries during the operation. Balogun said the suspect was arrested in a house at Oluku in Ovia North- East Local Government Area. He said the suspect and…

Arsenal have landed a big punch. The Gunners crushed Sunderland 3-0 on Saturday afternoon and are now nine points clear at the top of the table. Aston Villa’s 1-1 draw at Bournemouth means only Manchester City can cut their lead this weekend. And City are away at Liverpool on Sunday. Anfield has historically been a difficult stadium for Pep Guardiola’s men to play at. They have only picked up one win there since 2003, and that came when there were no fans in attendance in 2021. It doesn’t help that they arrive this time around, knowing they trail Arsenal by…

The Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Protocol, Issa Niniola, has said the Federal Government is not sleeping over the spate of insecurity in the country. Niniola stated this on the sidelines of the 27th Oba-Oke Day celebration in Olorunda Local Government Area of Osun State held on Saturday. According to him, insecurity in the country is worrisome and has become a front-burner issue, assuring that the Federal Government is not neglecting it. “As it is today, insecurity has become an international concern, and I can assure you that the Federal Government is going to tackle it frontally.…

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Sunday alleged that the state government had concluded arrangements to manipulate some retirees into staging protests at branches of the United Bank for Africa, in relation to the ongoing crises in local government areas. The opposition party, in a statement by the Director of Media of Osun APC, Mr Kola Olabisi, on Sunday, claimed the government planned to use the pensioners to protest the payment of federal allocations to APC local government chairmen and councillors on Monday. It subsequently appealed to the state Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Gothan, and other security…

Grief has continued to trail the death of Nigerian footballer, Saburi Adeniji, popularly known as Ola, following revelations that his wife and young daughter arrived in the United Kingdom barely a day after he passed away. Adeniji, a left winger for Kings Park Rangers Football Club of Sudbury, a non-league side competing in the Eastern Counties League Division One North, died on Friday morning after battling a severe brain stem injury. The club confirmed his death in a statement on Saturday, noting that the 26-year-old footballer had fought to stay alive until arrangements were completed for his family to travel…

Last month, over a dozen automobile and smartphone manufacturers gathered in Palo Alto, California, for the 16th annual “Plugfest,” hosted by the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC) to test out the latest in digital key technology.Digital keys, which allow vehicle owners to lock, unlock, and start their cars using smartphones or other digital devices, are becoming more commonplace. And the goal of Plugfest was to provide a place for CCC members — ranging from automakers and smart device manufacturers to cloud providers and chip makers — to come together to test interoperability and real-world performance across vehicles, devices, and wireless technologies.…

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Mary Cosby’s son, Robert Cosby Jr., has broken his silence after recently being released from a Utah jail. “I’m back :),” Robert 23, posted via Instagram on Friday, February 6, alongside a carousel of photos of himself and his pet bulldog. Robert’s attorney Clayton Simms confirmed to People on Wednesday, February 4, that the Bravo star was released from Salt Lake County Metro Jail on Tuesday, February 3, after two months behind bars. Per court documents, Robert will be required to serve 36 months of probation and complete 75 hours of community…

Constitutional lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Professor Sebastine Hon has dismissed the call by the Sharia Council of Nigeria for the sack of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Joash Amupitan SAN as an unguided request. He said the call predicated on possible bias against a particular interest was not only ridiculous but amounts to an invitation to President Bola Tinubu to breach the provisions of the 1999 Constitution. In a statement in Abuja on Sunday, the senior lawyer maintained that the reasons advanced by the Council to back the call are not tenable…