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1 day ago | 
dailypost.ng | Seun Opejobi
Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Friday, accused former presidential candidate, Reuben Abati of hypocrisy. Olayinka disclosed that Abati was once a governorship running mate to a wanted drug lord. In 2019, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State had picked Abati as running mate to its then governorship candidate, late Buruji Kashamu.
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1 day ago | 
dailypost.ng | Seun Opejobi
President Bola Tinubu on Friday observed the defection of Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State from his living room in Lagos State. In a video, Tinubu was seen sitting on a sofa while watching Eno’s defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC. The president also had the National Security Adviser, NSA, Nuhu Ribadu and two other personalities all glued to the television screen.
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1 day ago | 
nigeriaworld.com | Seun Opejobi
Lungu died at the age of 68, as announced by his party, the Patriotic Front via a statement on Thursday. The party said the former president died in Pretoria, South Africa, where he was receiving treatment for an unknown illness. According to the party, he was “receiving specialized treatment in South Africa for an undisclosed illness”. Lungu led Zambia for six years, from 2015 until 2021, when he lost the presidential election to the current President, Hakainde Hichilema.
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1 day ago | 
dailypost.ng | Seun Opejobi
Some governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, are in Akwa Ibom State ahead of the official defection of Governor Umo Eno. The governors stormed Uyo ahead of Eno’s imminent defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the APC.
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1 day ago | 
dailypost.ng | Seun Opejobi
Popular Arise Television anchor, Rufai Oseni, on Friday tackled President Bola Tinubu over his comment to critics of the Lagos-Calabar coastal road projects. Tinubu had said those demanding the cost and criticizing the coastal road projects should go and stay in the Idumota area of Lagos State. He made the comment at the commissioning of the Deep Sea Port Access Road in Lagos on Thursday.
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1 day ago | 
dailypost.ng | Seun Opejobi
The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has warned the governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo -Olu, to retrace his steps as he foresees plans to unseat him from his position. This is coming on the heels of a rumoured rancor between the governor and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, which has been making news lately.
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1 day ago | 
dailypost.ng | Seun Opejobi
Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Friday lashed out at former presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, for calling the Minister “rude.”Olayinka said Abati’s comment while defending former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has shown that he hates Wike. Abati had claimed that Wike was very rude, stressing that Amaechi was his boss in politics.
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1 day ago | 
dailypost.ng | Seun Opejobi
Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Friday berated the former Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, for referring to the Minister as a child. Olayinka said Wike held the fort and “faced fire” in Rivers State when Amaechi eloped to Ghana to seek refuge during the political crisis in the state at the time. Amaechi was governor of Rivers State for eight years.
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1 day ago | 
dailypost.ng | Seun Opejobi
Minister of Works, David Umahi, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to release more funds for infrastructural projects. Umahi said Tinubu should discountenance critics and release more funds for the execution of projects. He made the appeal during the official commissioning of the Deep Sea Port Access Road in Lagos on Thursday. The Minister said the project has been endorsed by international financiers and they described it as undervalued.
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2 days ago | 
dailypost.ng | Seun Opejobi
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike has declared that the era of terrorism and banditry in Nigeria will soon be over. Wike said President Bola Tinubu’s administration is addressing the menace of banditry and terrorism through proper funding, the training and retraining of security forces. He disclosed this in his 2025 Distinguish Personality Lecture, titled, “The Nigeria of our Dreams” presented at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife on Thursday.
