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Remo Stars have expressed disappointment with their relegation from the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL. The Sky Blue Stars finished  in 17th position in the NPFL table with 47 points. The club admitted it failed to deliver the performance and consistency needed to stay up. Remo Stars insisted that important decisions will be made to return the club to the top-flight. “Following the conclusion of the 2025-26 NPFL season, Remo Stars will now compete in the Nigeria National League, NNL, next season,” Remo Stars wrote in a statement on Monday. “The outcome of the season is very disappointing for everybody…

The price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (cooking gas) is inching closer to N2,000 per kilogramme in different locations as Muslims prepare for the 2026 Eid-el-Kabir celebrations. The Federal Government has declared Wednesday, May 27, and Thursday, May 28, 2026, as public holidays to mark the Sallah festivities. A survey by our correspondent showed that cooking gas prices rose from below N1,000/kg recently to about N1,500 and N1,800 in different parts of the country. Consumers in the South West told our correspondent that they now buy LPG at about N2,000 in Ogun border communities and between N1,600 and N1,700 in Lagos,…

The Ogun I Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, Idiroko, has intercepted a luxury passenger bus loaded with military camouflage uniforms, cannabis sativa, and other prohibited items allegedly smuggled into the country. The contraband items were intercepted around 1:30am on Sunday along the Sagamu–Ore–Benin Expressway while being transported to the eastern part of the country. Speaking during a press briefing on Monday in Idiroko, the acting area controller of the command, Oladapo Afeni, said the luxury bus, which had no registration plate, was intercepted through intelligence-driven surveillance after allegedly evading several security checkpoints from Lagos State to Ogun State.…

When the All Progressives Congress was launched in 2013, it was presented as a coalition of opposition parties which said Nigeria deserved better leadership. The Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressive Change, All Nigeria Peoples Party, and a section of the All Progressives Grand Alliance came together with a common message: the Peoples Democratic Party had ruled for too long and had damaged the country through corruption, weak leadership, poor elections, and failure to tackle insecurity. Many Nigerians believed them. Even those who didn’t support them wished they would be better than the PDP. At the centre of that…

The Nigeria Boxing Federation has set its sights on six gold medals at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow as the body looks to recover from the administrative turmoil that undermined its preparations for the Paris 2024 Olympics. NBF Vice President Omonlei Imadu told our correspondent, “Our target is 10 medals, six gold, while others can come in silver and bronze colours. We are truly determined to make this a reality in Glasgow. “We have moved focus now to the camping phase. Our aim is to ensure that the boxers are in perfect shape during and after the camping.” Diaspora…

Key points:Bitcoin needs to cross and maintain above $78,000 to start a stronger recovery toward $84,000.HYPE and ZEC remain strong while other major altcoins struggle to rise above their overhead resistance levels. Bitcoin (BTC) bounced on Saturday following US President Donald Trump’s announcement in a post on his Truth Social platform that negotiations between the US and Iran were “proceeding in an orderly and constructive manner.” Buyers extended the recovery on Monday and are attempting to sustain above $77,500.The uncertainty of the past few days has resulted in $1.55 billion in net outflows from the US BTC exchange-traded funds. Crypto sentiment…

Tiger Woods has made his return to social media for the first time since he announced he was seeking treatment following his arrest in March. “My father was a Special Forces operator with two tours in Vietnam and 20 years of service,” Woods, 50, wrote via his Instagram Story to commemorate Memorial Day on Monday, May 25. “To all those like my father, we all say thank you for your sacrifices. Without them we wouldn’t have the greatest country on Earth.” His girlfriend, Vanessa Trump, shared the statement to her story as well. Tiger’s father, Earl Woods, served two tours…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed Saturday, 13 June, for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) mop-up exercise following technical glitches and examination infractions that disrupted the main examination. The board said the mop-up examination would cater to candidates who were biometrically verified during the main UTME but could not sit the examination “for one reason or another.” The 2026 UTME was conducted between 16 and 23 April. In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, the board acknowledged that some examination centres and candidates faced challenges that prevented them from sitting the examination. JAMB…

The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has condemned the federal government under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over its inability to offer free train services during the forthcoming Eid Kabir festival. MURIC made this assertion in a statement signed by its Executive Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola. The statement was made available to DAILY POST on Monday night. DAILY POST reports that the 2026 Eid Kabir festival is less than 48 hours away. Akintola, in the statement, said that the federal government in recent times had offered free train services during the Christmas period. He also disclosed that the federal…

Ahead of the Ekiti State governorship poll scheduled for June 20, 2026, civil society organisations under the European Union Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria Phase Two (EU-SDGN II) programme have expressed concerns over the preparedness of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the much-awaited election. The groups, during a media briefing in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, warned that critical operational and security gaps could undermine the credibility of the poll if not urgently addressed. According to the pre-election assessment report presented by the Election Observation Hub, INEC’s preparedness across the 16 local government offices in…