CNN reporters have been barred from traveling with US President Donald Trump as planned on Saturday, in a new move by the White House to limit the news network’s access. The president last week sought to ban three US outlets – CNN, MS NOW and Politico – from the White House, accusing them of providing…
Iran offered a plan to reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz, Tehran said Friday, but within hours reports indicated that US President Donald Trump rejected the proposal. The waterway key to the world’s oil supply is central to the conflict between the United States and Iran, which is at a stalemate after nearly seven months….
By Sola Ogundipe Cancer treatment can become a race against time. A drug works, the tumour shrinks, hope returns. Then the cancer changes. The treatment that once held it back starts losing its grip. Cancer cells find another way to survive, and a battle that seemed to be won begins all over again. Read Also:…
By Sola Ogundipe If your bedroom isn’t completely dark at night, a new study suggests it may be worth taking a closer look at how much light reaches you while you sleep. Read Also: We don’t need pity, we need jobs — Blind couple Research involving more than 11,000 people found that higher exposure to…
By Luminous Jannamike & Gabriel Ewepu ABUJA — The last thing many of the miners arrested around the Wushishi-Lukoto axis of Niger State could have expected when they were taken into custody was that some of them would not come out alive. Read Also: Full List: 20 NSCDC officers suspended over 37 miners’ death; probe…
Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, and MRS filling stations’ premium motor spirit (PMS) pump prices have remained stable at N1,395 per litre despite the drop in crude oil prices. A market survey by DAILY POST on Friday showed that fuel pump prices in Abuja and its environs across NNPCL and MRS outlets stood at…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Ogun State, Senator Olamilekan Adeola, popularly known as Yayi, has vowed to aggressively pursue and recover corporate taxes and revenue generated by industrial entities operating within the state but remitting their top-level executives’ taxes to Lagos State. Adeola, who currently represents Ogun West Senatorial District, made the…
By Chioma Obinna Experts in orthopaedic and trauma care have called for a fundamental shift in Nigeria’s approach to treating patients with traumatic and musculoskeletal injuries, warning that successful surgery alone does not necessarily translate into recovery or restoration of normal life. They said effective trauma care requires a multidisciplinary, patient-centred approach in which surgeons,…
By Peter Duru, Makurdi MAKURDI — The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Benue State has criticised the state government’s directive requiring the 23 Local Government Councils to maintain daily attendance registers, describing the measure as an attempt to interfere with local government autonomy. The party also faulted a provision in the directive stating that only…
By Kingsley Omonobi ABUJA — The Armed Forces of Nigeria on Thursday launched an online discount shop designed to provide serving and retired personnel, veterans and their families with access to essential goods at preferential prices. The digital welfare initiative was launched at Defence Headquarters, Abuja, by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation,…
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