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The Governor of Edo State, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has approved the appointment members for the Edo State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board. this was made known in a ‘Government Special Announcement’ on Tuesday by the Secretary to the State Government, Umar Musa Ikhilor. The government stated that the Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board will be inaugurated by the Governor on a date to be announced later. 1. Alhaji Musa Uduimo – Chairman2. Alhaji Abdul Aziz Igbinidu – Member3. Hajia Usenat Audu Esohe – Member4. Alhaji Musa Isiwele – Member5. Hajiya Mrs. Rabi Abiri – Member6. Ahmed Evbareke – Member7. Mallam Naasir Usman – Member8. Sheikh Sirajudeen Muhammed – Member9. Mallam Omosa Shittu Musa – Member10. Sh. Abdul-Ali Abdulqadir Momoh – Member11. Mallam Ismail Ibrahim – Member12. Alhaj...

Digital payment platform OPay has threatened legal action against a 𝕏 user after a social media post claimed the fintech company would shut down its operations on September 1, 2026. The user, identified as Cute Hafserh (@Haifah_Er_Abba), reportedly shared the publication online, prompting OPay to issue a formal warning and demand its removal. Recall that the company, through its Chief Legal Counsel, Akinfolabi Moses Rokosu, accused the social media user of circulating false and misleading information that has harmed the company. OPay directed the user to delete the post, warning that it was prepared to pursue legal action. The development followed the company’s earlier clarification that it had no plan to suspend its operations on September 1, after a shutdow...

The Kebbi State Police Command has arrested four suspects over the alleged breaking and entering into the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, office in Jega Local Government Area, where six generators were stolen. The command also recovered all six generators, although one had already been dismantled into scrap parts for sale. The command’s spokesperson, SP Bashir Usman, disclosed this in a statement on Monday, adding that the arrests followed separate operations involving the theft of government property and cable vandalism. According to him, detectives were deployed after the command received a report of breaking and entering into the INEC office in Jega, leading to the arrest of four suspects and the recovery of the stolen generators. Usman said one of t...

The Vice-President, Senator Kashim Shettima, has warned that the Nigerian government and its people will no longer tolerate any form of dehumanisation of Nigerian citizens by any governmentin any part of the world.  NigerianCulture Magazine The Vice-President gave the warning while speaking to newsmen in Luanda, Angola on Monday, August 31. He stated this while reiterating Nigeria’s strong opposition to xenophobic and Afrophobic attacks against Nigerians and other African nationals in South Africa, insisting that the country will not condone mistreatment of its citizens. In his words “Those whose palm kernels were cracked by benevolent spirits should learn to be humble. We were part of the struggle for the liberation of our brothers and sisters in Southern Africa, and ...

The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),  Ola Olukoyede, says the anti-graft agency has recovered over N1.23 trillion, $684.48 million, £373,905 and €9.34 million in proceeds of crime between October 2023 and June 2026. Olukoyede made the disclosure yesterday in Abuja when he presented his three-year stewardship report at the EFCC Headquarters. According to him, the recoveries were among the major outcomes of the commission’s sustained enforcement, investigation, prosecution and asset-recovery efforts under his leadership. Olukoyede said of the N1.233 trillion recovered during the period, approximately N397.26 billion, representing 33 per cent, constituted direct recoveries for the federal government. He mentioned that the remaining N836.34 billion...

Bandits have allegedly attacked communities in Kano State for the third consecutive day, killing at least one person and abducting the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rogo Local Government Area. A source who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed to DAILY POST that the latest attack occurred in Beli village, Rogo LGA, where gunmen reportedly invaded the community at about 1 a.m. on Tuesday, fired sporadically, shot a resident and abducted the local APC chairman, Alhaji Audu Fanka Salisu Yahaya. Yahaya was said to be a close associate of the Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Jibril Ismail Falgore, who is a native of the local government area. A young man was also reportedly killed during the attack, while some residents were said to have su...

Osun State governor, Ademola Adeleke, has approved a two-year extension of the tenure of the Vice-Chancellor of Osun State University, Professor Clement Adebooye. The extension was announced on Monday during the inauguration of the reconstituted Governing Council of the university at the Osun State Government House in Osogbo. According to a statement signed by the university’s Public Relations Officer, Ademola Adesoji, Adebooye had initially declined the offer to remain in office but later accepted the extension. Governor Adeleke said the decision was taken in the interest of the university and was aimed at strengthening its governance structure and ensuring continuity in its administration The governor added that the extension of the Vice-Chancellor’s tenure ...

More than 40 staff members of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have been dismissed for corruption and financial malpractice in the past three years, the commission’s chairman, Ola Olukoyede, has said. Olukoyede disclosed this on Monday, August 31, at the EFCC headquarters in Abuja during a briefing on the achievements of the commission under his leadership. He said the anti-graft agency had also commenced the prosecution of more than five of the affected staff members. “In the past two and a half years or three years of my service, I’ve asked them to dismiss over 40 staff on account of corruption and financial malpractice. More than five of them are being prosecuted at the moment,” Olukoyede said. He said the decision to prosecute staff accused of wrongdoing was...

A 24-year-old pilot allegedly stole a plane while intoxicated and flew towards a nuclear power plant in Hungary, triggering a major emergency response before the aircraft crashed in a sunflower field. The worrying flight path of the Cessna 172 entered the no-fly zone around Hungary’s largest nuclear power plant and triggered an alert on military radar. Hungarian air force officials quickly mobilised a task force, with several fighter jets sent to intercept the aircraft. The mid-air operation lasted only a few minutes before the pilot unexpectedly crash-landed in a sunflower field around four miles from the plant. Aerial footage showed a flattened trail through the sunflowers where the aircraft had bulldozed its way across the field. The pilot was uninjured, but the Cessna 172 was ...

The Presidency reportedly spent N37.64 billion on presidential trips, logistics, foreign exchange and other travel-related expenses between June 2023 and April 2026. This is according to an analysis of GovSpend, a civic tech platform created by BudgIT that simplifies and visualizes the Federal Government’s real-time treasury payments and actual expenditures. The disclosure came as President Bola Tinubu on Sunday left Abuja for Europe on a three-week annual vacation, with London as his first destination. Official travel records of President Tinubu showed that he has spent about 261 days outside Nigeria, visiting at least 30 countries in 51 foreign trips since May 29, 2023. According to the GovSpend records, travel-related spending by the President gulped N9.18bn in...