10 Feb, 2026
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‘They’re my only source of livelihood’ – Herder cries after mysterious lightning struck cows in Ogun

It was a black Saturday for Abdullahi Idris, a father of six and herder who lost about 32 cows to lightning strikes recently in Osara, a village in Obantoko area of Abeokuta, in the Odeda Local Government area of Ogun State. It all started with the dark cloud, and then moved to the continuous whistle […]

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Commuters, staff stranded as students protest renaming of Polytechnic Ibadan

Hundreds of commuters plying the ever busy Sango-Eleyele Road in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, are currently stranded, DAILY POST reports. Our correspondent reports that the commuters are stranded as a result of protest embarked upon by students of the Polytechnic Ibadan. DAILY POST gathered that the students embarked upon the protest as a result […]

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Abia Assembly probes alleged mismanagement, fee hike at Government College Umuahia

The crisis rocking Government College, Umuahia, GCU, over the running of the school by the Trustees of Fisher Educational Development Trust, FEDT, has assumed a new dimension following the allegation that new trustees have been appointed by the Okwe Ilieze Nwodo-led team for the school. An old boy of the college, Chukwudi Onwudinanti, had petitioned […]

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AFC Launches Nationwide Campaign Against Gender-Based Violence, Ritual Killings

The Association of Female Comrades (AFC), a youth-led, women-focused non-governmental organisation, has launched a 30-day nationwide sensitization campaign aimed at tackling the growing scourge of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and ritual killings across Nigeria. The campaign, which runs from July 1 to July 30, 2025, seeks to confront what the AFC describes as a “national emergency” […]

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Lagos govt seals two buildings over illegal sewage discharge in Ikoyi

The Lagos State Wastewater Management Office, LSWMO, has sealed two properties in the Ikoyi area of Lagos. The properties were sealed for obstructing the office’s operations and for unlawfully discharging raw sewage into public drainage systems. The Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this in a statement posted on his official […]

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UK-based Nigerian caregiver jailed for abusing 88-year-old dementia patient

A UK-based Nigerian caregiver, Bilikesu Olagunju, has been sentenced after CCTV footage revealed her violently mistreating an 88-year-old dementia patient just one day before he was found unresponsive and later died in hospital. The disturbing footage, captured on Christmas Eve 2022 at John Attard’s home in Bexley, Kent, showed Olagunju, 42, dragging the frail man […]