US election 2020: Supreme Court rejects Donald Trump’s bid to overturn election results The US Supreme Court appears to have put the final nail in the coffin of Donald Trump’s attempts to undo his election loss, rejecting a lawsuit seeking to throw out results in four states. The justices said the long-shot case, brought by Texas and backed by the president, did not have any legal standing. Mr Trump and his allies have made repeated unfounded accusations of voter fraud and filed a flurry of unsuccessful lawsuits challenging the election results. This latest lawsuit called into doubt the results in…
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Nigeria on Friday registered 796 new cases, highest single-day COVID-19 infections in 24 hours, the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) said on its verified website. The new infections showed an increase of 51 cases over the previous record of 745 registered cases, almost six months ago on 19 June, 2020. The agency said that the 796 cases were diagnosed with COVID-19 in 15 states and the Federal Capital Territory, bringing the total nationally to 72,140 with 1,90 deaths. FCT led with 258 cases of the virus, while Lagos came second with 248, and Kaduna state in third position with…
As a measure against an imminent challenge of food shortage in the country, Governors of the 36 states are to meet on Monday with the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, and other stakeholders on how to explore the dry season farming option being promoted by the CBN. The Head, Media, and Public Affairs at the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, in a statement on Friday, said the meeting will afford the CBN Governor the opportunity to take the Governors through details of the programme and what they must do to ensure its success. Part…
There is a fire explosion along Ikare/Akungba road, in front of Adekunle Ajasin University. The fire explosion is caused by petrol truck which had left several people injured. Details later…..
The mace of the Ogun State House of Assembly, which was stolen on Thursday, has been recovered in Lagos State. DAILY POST reported on Thursday that the mace was carted away by some unknown hoodlums. The hoodlums were said to have broken into the office of the Speaker, Olakunle Oluomo overnight and went away with the symbol of authority. The Ogun State Police Command Spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the head of the mace was found yesterday. Confirming the recovery on Friday, the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, said “Lagos Police Command Recovers Ogun State House of Assembly…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said it has not suspended its ongoing nine-month-old strike. Dr Lazarus Maigoro, Chairman of the University of Jos Chapter of ASUU disclosed this in an interview on Friday in Jos. According to him, the union has not signed any agreement with the Federal Government to call off the strike as being purported in some quarters. He said that the Federal Government had promised to fulfil part of the agreement that led to the lingering strike, but had failed to do so till date. “It must be categorically stated here that ASUU never signed…
The police command in Kaduna State has debunked the story making the rounds that gunmen killed 16 travellers on the Abuja-Kaduna highway on Tuesday. Commissioner of Police, Umar Muri, in a statement said that the incident that happened on Tuesday, Dec. 8, was a lone accident on the Kaduna-Zaria expressway involving a commercial bus conveying 19 passengers from Kano to Abuja. He explained that the driver lost control at a point at Rigachukun, in Igabi local government area of Kaduna State and the bus summersaulted killing nine of the passengers while the 10 others sustained varying degrees of injuries. He…
The traditional ruler of Isinigbo community in Akure North local government area, Oba Samuel Fadahunsi, has been hospitalised after gunmen suspected to have been hired attacked his palace and set it ablaze. Oba Fadahunsi who is said to be 100 years old was said to have been trapped inside the inferno but was rescued after the gunmen were chased away. Isinigbo and neighbouring Ude community have been at loggerheads over a land disputes. Last week, youths from Isinigbo in protest over the destruction of their houses stormed the palace of the traditional ruler of Ude, Sunday Boboye, the Ajagun of…
Report says at least two Persons have been killed with several houses burnt in Isinigbo community of Akure North local government area in Ondo state over land dispute with a neighbouring community. Sunshine truth reported that the attack was allegedly carried out in the night by suspected gunmen hired by a neighbouring community. A resident of Isinigbo who witnessed the attack, said palace of the Asinigbo and some houses had been burnt down by the hoodlums. It was also gathered that the government had deployed security agents to the area to maintain peace. Details later…. Sunshine Truth
Nigeria’s top gospel singer and music composer, Bukola Bekes is billed to lead other top gospel singers to this year’s DAVID DANCE powered by Klick Konnect Networks. David Dance is an annual Thanksgiving program put together by the management of Klick Konnect networks Intl Ltd Akure . The event is annually graced with different important personalities ranging from political gladiators to top Nigeria gospel Artiste from within and outside the state . The free entry gospel concert event which is the fourth in a row comes up on Friday December 18th at the OSDPC Event Hall located inside…