The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, has said that Nigerian soldiers released by Burkina Faso have arrived at an Air Force base in Accra, Ghana. DAILY POST reports that the Burkina Faso junta had detained the soldiers after their…

Political associates of a former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday held a special prayer session at his GRA residence in Ilorin, Kwara State, to celebrate his 63rd birthday. Speaking during the event, an Islamic cleric, Sheikh Labeeb Agbaji, recalled…

The Benue State Government on Friday, began rolling out intervention materials and programmes funded through donations received after violent attacks on Yelwata community and other affected areas of the state. Yelwata and several other communities had come under deadly assaults…

The Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, has mourned the passing of former Senator representing Delta North Senatorial District, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, describing his death as a great loss to Delta State, the Anioma nation, and Nigeria at large. Nwaoboshi, a…

Abia State Police Command says it arrested a total of 809 crime suspects and recovered 88 arms from suspects in 438 cases between January 2025 till date. The Commissioner of Police, Danladi Isa, stated this on Friday in his office…

President Bola Tinubu on Friday presented the 2026 Appropriation Bill to a Joint Session of the National Assembly in Abuja, describing it as a critical step in consolidating recent economic reforms and steering Nigeria toward stability and inclusive growth. The…

President Bola Tinubu has transmitted fresh Appropriation (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bills for 2024 and 2025 to the House of Representatives, seeking to repeal the existing budgets and replace them with revised expenditure frameworks aligned with current fiscal realities. The request…

China has announced that it will start taxing contraceptives for the first time in over 30 years as it tries to encourage families to have more children. From January 1, 2026, contraceptive products such as condoms and birth control drugs…

The Deputy Governor of Edo State, Hon Dennis Idahosa, has mandated the strengthening of Primary Healthcare facilities across rural areas of the state. He gave the directive while chairing the fourth quarterly meeting of the state Primary Health Care task…

INEC Chairman, Joash Amupitan, on Friday, met with leaders of the two warring factions of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), ahead of the forthcoming Federal Capital Territory (FCT) area council elections, as well as the governorship elections in Osun and…

The Nigerian Senate has approved the appointments of Oritsemeyiwa Amanorisewo Eyesan as Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, NUPRC, and Engineer Saidu Aliyu Mohammed as Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory…

Access to the National Assembly is currently under intense scrutiny as personnel of the Nigeria Police Force and their National Security and Civil Defence Corps have taken strategic positions ahead of President Bola Tinubu’s presentation of the 2026 budget estimates…

President Bola Tinubu will present the ₦54 trillion 2026 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly today. The two chambers of the National Assembly have already approved the 2026–2028 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and the Fiscal Strategy Paper…

The Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, in Jigawa State has reminded public officers and political office holders who completed their assets declaration forms to personally submit the documents to avoid unnecessary sanctions. The reminder was contained in a statement signed…

‎President Bola Tinubu has asked the National Assembly to approve the extension of the implementation of the 2025 Appropriation Act to March 31, 2026, as part of efforts to end the practice of running multiple budgets simultaneously.‎‎The request was contained…