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One person simply identified as Seun, an alleged member of the Eiye confraternity, has been killed and beheaded during a cult clash in the Ijoko area of Ogun State. According to reports, Seun, a fuel attendant at a filling station in Alaroro, Ijoko, was killed in a reprisal attack. He was decapitated, with his head hung on the Ijoko bridge. DAILY POST gathered that the clash began last Friday when a suspected Aye leader, simply identified as Adisa, was killed. Adisa was reportedly killed and his hand chopped off by a rival group. It was also gathered that in retaliation,…
The Kogi State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the killing of two of the abducted students of Confluence University of Science and Technology, CUSTECH, Osara. DAILY POST recalls that armed men suspected to be bandits had on May 9 invaded the school while the students were studying in their classes ahead of their examinations. An unspecified number of students were abducted by the assailants after sporadic shootings. Some of the abducted students were recently released by the kidnappers. The State Police Commissioner, Bethrand Onuoha, confirmed the killing of the students when he spoke with NAN in Lokoja. Onuoha described the…
The Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities has urged universities to engage in community services to improve their relationship with host communities. The Chairman of its Board of Trustees, Prof. J. D. Amin made the call in Maiduguri on Saturday while delivering a public lecture on leadership challenges in Nigerian universities. The lecture was organized by a committee of friends in honour of the outgoing Vice Chancellor of the University of Maiduguri, UNIMAID, Prof. Aliyu Shugaba. Amin said community services should be carried out by both staff and students of universities in host communities, “to give them a sense…
President Bola Tinubu has called on Nigerian universities to be at the forefront in the fight against corruption as prime institutions of learning. Tinubu made the call at the second combined 3rd and 4th convocation ceremony of the Federal University Gusau, FUGUS, which was held in Gusau on Saturday. The president, represented by the Vice-Chancellor of the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Prof. Lawal Bilbis, said universities as centres of learning and shaping the critical thinking of people, especially youth, need to take the lead in fighting corruption and other social vices among the teeming generation. Tinubu said: “This administration had…
The National Working Committee of the Labour Party has described the suspension of its national chairman, Barrister Julius Abure, by the executives of Ward 3, in Arue-Uromi, Esan North- East Local Government, as fake. DAILY POST reports that the State Working Committee had on the night of Friday, May 24, 2024, ratified the purported suspension of the party’s national chairman in Benin City. Reacting to the suspension, the National Working Committee of the party on Saturday, May 25, 2024, said its national chairman has not been suspended by the executives of Ward 3, Arue-Uromi, Esan North East of Edo State.…
Arsenal legend, Paul Merson, has backed Manchester City to beat Manchester United in today’s FA Cup final. Man City will face Man United at Wembley Stadium Saturday evening. Merson insisted that he would be ‘shocked if Manchester United got anywhere close to winning.’ He, however, predicted 3-0 scoreline in favour of Pep Guardiola’s side. “I’d be shocked if Manchester United got anywhere close to winning this one, but they need to score first to have any chance of getting their hands on the trophy,” Merson told Sportskeeda. “A few years ago, Manchester United always had the counter-attacking threat to cause…
The Kogi governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja has scheduled judgment for May 27, in the petition by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and its candidate in the last governorship election in Kogi, Murtala Ajaka. The SDP and Ajaka are challenging the declaration of Usman Ododo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the election held on November 11, 2023. The three-member tribunal, headed by Justice Ado Birnin-Kudu, announced the date on Thursday in a message communicated to counsel to the parties through its Secretary, David Mike. Hearing in the case, which commenced in December…
Former Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Yusuf Baba-Ahmed, has hit back at Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, over his comment that Peter Obi, LP’s presidential candidate, was unfit to lead the country. Baba-Ahmed said that he could say a few things to Soyinka that could destroy him for good but he wouldn’t say that. According to him, intellect doesn’t give Soyinka the right to insult anybody. Recall that Soyinka had said that Obi’s failure to reign on his supporters attacking others with opposing views online was a pointer that he is unfit to lead a country…
Yusuf Baba-Ahmed, former Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, says he’s not impressed when someone with a history of fake certificates and forfeitures calls himself the President. This is even as he said that he’s only scared when ‘someone’ is clean, wins elections and is playing by the rules. He stated this while featuring on Arise Television’s Prime Time programme on Friday. According to him, “I am never scared. If only you were playing by the rules and you were clean, and you were winning the elections, I could be scared of you. If you were legit,…
Real Madrid boss, Carlo Ancelotti has said that retiring German midfielder, Toni Kroos, is replaceable for the club. DAILY POST reports that Kroos, 34, has announced he would no longer play football after the Euro 2024 championship to be hosted by Germany. Ancelotti applauded the 34-year-old for his achievement and the courage to take the decision. Speaking ahead of Real Madrid’s Champions League final against Borussia Dortmund on Saturday, the Italian boss said, “Veterans have to choose their destination. Kroos has chosen this and you have to respect it. “We should farewell him in the best possible way. It is…