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Seun Kuti, popular musician and the youngest son of the Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo Kuti has slammed comedian Ayo Makun, a.k.a AY, over his reason for not rejecting his national honour. DAILY POST recalls that former president Muhammadu Buhari, through the Ministry of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs on Sunday, listed comedian AY, singer Davido, actor Kunle Afolayan, Super Eagles and Napoli striker Victor Osimhen and other celebrities among 337 Nigerians to be conferred with national honours on June 1st 2023. Reacting to the announcement on Monday, AY, in a tweet, addressed critics who queried him for not rejecting the…
Operatives of the Department of the State Service, DSS, are reportedly preventing officials of the anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from gaining access to their office in Ikoyi, Lagos. A source affected by the development revealed this to DAILY POST on Tuesday. “We came to the office this morning (Tuesday) to meet the office gate block by men of the DSS,” he said. Peter Afunanya, spokesman of the DSS, did not respond to calls put through to him for comments on the matter. Similarly, the EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, is yet to respond to an enquiry from…
A former Aviation Minister and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, has described Nigeria’s new President, Bola Tinubu, as courageous, committed and focused. Speaking with journalists in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital on Tuesday, Fani-Kayode said, “Tinubu is resilient, focused, clear thinking and has clear objectives and understanding of what he needs to do. “I had the privilege of working with him [Tinubu] together with so many other people during the course of the campaign. He is very courageous man who is committed to his course.’’ The former minister said that Nigerians were in good hands,…
Hours after his inauguration on Monday, Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano, a member of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, directed all public places and assets sold by the immediate past governor of the State, Abdullahi Ganduje, should be overtaken by law enforcement agencies. Yusuf disclosed this through his official Twitter handle, noting that the move will be valid pending the government’s final decision. He lamented that Ganduje’s administration had indiscriminately sold Kano State Government’s properties. He wrote: “In line with our transition advisory. Today, I am announcing that all public places and assets that were immorally plundered and sold by…
Football transfer expert, Fabrizio Romano, has provided the latest update on Paris Saint-Germain forward Lionel Messi’s future. Romano said that Messi wants to pick his future club and make a decision on his future in the next few days. He disclosed this in a tweet via his Twitter handle on Monday night. “Lionel Messi wants to make a decision on his future in the next days,” Romano tweeted. “It does NOT guarantee that Messi will announce his new club in few days — but he wants to pick future club ASAP. “No official bid from Barça yet due to FFP.…
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has dissolved the Park Management System (PMS) in the state, DAILY POST reports. The park management system was introduced in 2020 by Makinde after he proscribed the National Union of Road Transport Union (NURTW) in the state. DAILY POST reports that the dissolution of the PMS is coming few hours after the governor took the oath of office for second term. Makinde noted that the Disciplinary Committee of the PMS, led by Mukaila Lamidi, has been dissolved. He made this announcement via a statement signed by his Chief of Staff, Segun Ogunwuyi. The statement…
Barely 24 hours after the swearing-in of the new President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, most filling stations within Akure, the capital of Ondo State, have stopped dispensing Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, popularly known as petrol, to consumers in the metropolis. On Tuesday, residents of the state woke up to the scarcity of petrol as vehicular movements were enormously reduced on most of the roads. While monitoring the situation, DAILY POST gathered that a few of the filling stations dispensing the product were confronted with long queues as people struggled to buy. At some of the filling stations dispensing the product, they…
A Nigerian woman, Uba Sandra Chisom, whose husband was killed by kidnappers, has blamed former President Muhammadu Buhari for her tragedy. Chisom’s husband, Henry Ifeka, was abducted by kidnappers during the Christmas holidays in 2022 and tragically killed, even after the ransom demanded for his release was paid. In a Facebook post on Monday evening, May 29, following Buhari’s handover to President Bola Tinubu, Sandra expressed her disappointment in Buhari’s administration. She claimed his administration was responsible for making her a widow and leaving her twin children without a father. “Dear President Buhari. It saddens my heart that insecurity isn’t…
Nigerian singer, Seyi Vibez, has taken to social media to brag about being an independent artiste who doesn’t need a record label to be successful. The ‘billion dollar baby” crooner stated this on Instagram, in reaction to a certain musician who he claims wants to release a statement against him. According to Seyi, he doesn’t care if the musician makes the statement because he has a lot of unreleased songs in his archives, so he won’t be affected. He also referred to himself as a “one man mopol,” claiming that he is similar to popular singer Olamide, who rose to…
A video making rounds online shows the moment a man returned home to find his daughter tying a towel with two boys in his house. The unidentified man was clearly enraged by his discovery and decided to record the scene as he chastised his daughter for bringing two boys home. In the viral video, the father can be heard scolding his daughter for having the audacity to invite her male friends to his house. He also panned the camera towards the two males in the house. The young lady, who was only wearing a bra and tying a towel to…