Ahead of the 2027 general election, several Nollywood actors including Toyin Abraham, Jide Kosoko, Bukky Wright, Oga Bello, Bimbo Akintola and Eniola Badmus have been named as members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Campaign Council in Lagos State. The actors were listed under Entertainment and Creative Economy Directorate in the list of the APC Campaign Council released on Thursday by the Kadri Obafemi Hamzat Media Centre. Toke Benson-Awoyinka was appointed as Director of the Directorate, while Kosoko is named Co-Director and Eniola Badmus as Deputy Director. Ajala Jalingo is listed as Secretary and Dare Olateju as Assistant Secretary. Recommended Other actors…
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A member of the Israeli Knesset, MK Afef Abed, has written to the United Nations, UN, demanding the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. The Knesset is the single-chamber parliament and supreme legislative body of the State of Israel. Kanu is currently serving a life sentence in Sokoto Prison, following his conviction on terrorism charges brought against him by the Nigerian government. The letter, which DAILY POST obtained on Thursday, was dated September 1, 2026 and addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the…
Nigerian content creator and streamer, Peller, has offered N5 million to anyone who can help locate a woman who alleged that he is the father of her unborn child. Peller made the offer on Thursday, September 17, 2026, days after the unidentified TikTok content creator publicly claimed that she was pregnant for him. The woman had shared a video alleging that she was pregnant for Peller and displayed what she described as a medical report from a doctor. She also claimed that she contacted Peller privately about the pregnancy and alleged that he asked her to terminate it, but that…
The Department of State Services, DSS, on Thursday re-arraigned five men accused of complicity in the May 15 kidnap of pupils and teachers in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State and the subsequent killing of two of the victims. They were arraigned on a seven-count amended charge marked FHC/ABJ/CR/438/2026, filed by the DSS on behalf of the Federal Government. The defendants, accused of being members of the Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina fi-Biladis Sudan (ANSARU) terrorist group, are Mahmud Muhammad (aka Abu Bara’a, Abbas Mukhtar); Abubakar Abbas (aka Isah Adam, Mallam Mahmuda Al-Nigeri); Abdulrazak Umar (aka Abu Khalifa/Abu Khalid); Yunusa Musa…
Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced a 38-year-old South African woman, Will Jessica Ann, to 25 years in prison for smuggling 5.75 kilogrammes of heroin into Nigeria. The offending drug was brought into Nigeria through Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. Justice Egwuatu passed the sentence on Thursday, stressing that Nigerian law does not respect emotions. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arraigned the woman before the Federal High Court in Abuja, where she pleaded guilty to unlawfully importing 5.75 kilogrammes of heroin into the country on July 6. Recommended Though the convict,…
The Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, governorship candidate in Zamfara State, Senator Kabir Marafa, has pledged to end insecurity in the state within two years if elected governor in the 2027 general election. Marafa made the declaration on Wednesday during a media chat with members of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Zamfara State Council, at his residence in Gusau. He said he would voluntarily resign if he failed to end insecurity, insurgency, kidnapping and other criminal activities in the state within two years of assuming office. “If I am elected governor in the forthcoming general elections,…
Public affairs commentator, Mahdi Shehu, has criticised the Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, over his claim that some Nigerians asked him to slow down because their freezers were freezing. Shehu reacted in a post shared on his X account on Wednesday night, describing the minister’s remarks as false and accusing him of making misleading statements. “When telling barefaced lies becomes a trademark, it transmutes into pathology and hence incurable and irredeemable,” Shehu wrote. “Such is the case in the minister’s shameless lie that smells to heaven,” he added. Recommended Shehu’s reaction came shortly after Tegbe spoke at the commissioning of a 3-megawatt…
The Apena of Egbaland and Oluwo of Iporo-Ake, Chief Alani Bankole has said only lazy people are hungry in Nigeria, insisting that the country is filled with opportunities to make money. Bankole, who spoke on Wednesday during a media interaction, blamed parents and the system for encouraging laziness among youths, saying many young people have lost the culture of hard work. According to him, the Bible is clear that anyone who does not work has no business eating, adding that Nigeria still offers enough legitimate opportunities for anyone willing to work not to be poor. “There are too many opportunities in Nigeria…
The United States has barred officials of the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization ahead of the United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York. The State Department, in a media note on Wednesday, asserted that the PA, Palestine’s interim governing body, and the PLO “failed to live up” to their obligations. In its report to Congress, the Department cited the breach of the PLO Commitments Compliance Act of 1989 and the Middle East Peace Commitments Act of 2002. The U.S. further listed initiation and support for international actions that undermine and contradict prior pledges highlighted in Security Council Resolutions…
Former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Jamie Redknapp has labelled Manchester United defenders, Leny Yoro and Ayden Heaven inexperienced following their poor performances in the Carabao Cup defeat to Brighton on Wednesday. Brighton came from 2-0 down to beat Manchester United 3-2 at Old Trafford. The result means Michael Carrick’s men are out of the Carabao Cup. “The inexperience of the two young centre-backs [Yoro and Heaven] showed,” Redknapp told Sky Sports. Recommended “I have no doubt the two of them will be on the phone to their agent [asking], ‘Why am I not playing at the moment?’” Manchester United’s next match is…