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Stakeholders of the PDP from Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia are planning to suspend one of their members, Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah, who is challenging Governor Okezie Ikpeazu at the courts. The PDP chieftains, led by the state chairman of the party, Chief Johnson Oniugbo, said...

The oldest primary school pupil in Kaduna State is dead. Danjuma Aliyu, also called AbdulMunim, died in his house in Kachia town on Friday, after complaining of stomach ache, his eldest son, Yahaya AbdulMumin, told DailyTrust. “My father complained of stomach ache after washing his car on...

About three persons died while one was declared missing as a result of heavy flooding in Lafia Local Government Area of Nasarawa State yesterday. DailyTrust reported that over 150 houses were destroyed in the affected communities which include Adage, Yalwata, Akura, Uga and Gidan Buba as the...

Police in Kubwa, Abuja over the weekend arrested two persons for allegedly engaging in homosexuality at Phase 2, Site 2 area of the town. According to City News, the suspects, a 30-year-old online journalist (name withheld) and a 17-year-old 100-level undergraduate were caught engaging in the...

Over 50 officers of the Nigerian Army will be retired in the next few days, with the official process begun. A list, with names and ranks of those affected, is said to be ready and waiting for implementation. Officers of ranks from Major-Generals, down to Lieutenant-Colonels, are affected in...

The prices of Automated Gasoline Oil (AGO) or diesel and household Kerosene have skyrocketed across the country, Daily Trust Newspaper revealed. Diesel dealers told DailyTrust that scarcity of the product may be imminent because marketers were now paying more to source the US dollar at the...

The acting president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, is currently meeting with the service chiefs and all the governors of the South-south states. The meeting is being held at the Vice President's Wing of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja. DailyTrust gathered that the meeting was convened...

President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja yesterday, told editors and newspaper executives in a brief interview to mark the administration’s first year in office that the biggest shock he had during the past year as President was the realisation that Nigeria had over the years squandered all its...

As the CBN monetary policy committee meets today and tomorrow, experts say the forex market and inflation would top discussions. The CBN, at the last MPC meeting, hiked bench mark interest rate to 12 from 11 percent, in response to headline inflation put at the time at 11.38 per cent. That...

The Federal Government has raised the alarm that Nigeria is broke and her economy shrinking. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said this on Wednesday while fielding questions on the new fuel pricing regime shortly after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting chaired by...

Former Kaduna state Governor, Alhaji Lamaran Yero have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Yero was arrested Monday in connection with the Deizani’s N23bn campaign fund. According to DailyTrust, he spent the night at the commission zonal office in Kano, Daily...

The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has said that the anti-graft agency is undergoing investigation before inviting the former president, Goodluck Jonathan and other accomplices in the arms purchase scandal. He said this when he visited the...

Crisis in the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic party deepens as the National Party Chairman talked tough over irregularities among members. Modu Sheriff, speaking through his media aide, Inuwa Bwala, said most of those who are against him have questions over their heads and vowed to...

One Idris Samaila has slaughtered his three children - Shamsudeen (7), Fatihu (4) and Sherifat, (5 months) in their sleep minutes after his wife left their hut to ease herself in Goru village in Kebbi state. When Daily Trust visited Samaila’s wife Nafisat, who is still in shock, she narrated...

President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigerian governors are currently in closed-door meeting on the state of the economy. According to Dailytrust, the meeting started around 2pm inside the Council Chambers of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja. Details soon

The Federal Government has completed plans to begin mass housing units in all the six geo-political zones of the country, Dailytrust reports. A director in the Ministry of Works and Housing, Arch. Sani Gidado, who represented the minister, Babatunde Fashola, said the projects which were...

Members of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) who staged protest over police invasion at the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) in Abuja said they have resumed Friday evening. Dailytrust reports that NUEE said the resumption follows the intervention of the Minister for Labour...

Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) facing trial at the court cannot stand for election into any position in the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party scheduled for May 21 in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. An official of the party, who craved anonymity, told Daily Trust...

The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II has raised the alarm over possible ‎deaths of children in Borno State soon as a result of hunger caused by the Boko Haram insurgency. According to DailyTrust, the emir raised the alarm while speaking as the Chairman, University of Lagos Muslim Alumni...

Port Harcourt Refining Company Limited has resumed operation and discharged 28 million litres of petrol to the market to clear the present scarcity of the product in the country, DailyTrust reports. The company explained that the development was the product of a fast track strategy aimed at...