Britain’s Charles III reaches the milestone of his first year as king this week, with his reign so far characterised by a smooth transition from that of his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II. The anniversary on Friday is expected to be marked privately, given the date is also that of his mother’s death at the age of 96. Charles, 74, has slipped into his new role with apparent ease after some 70 years waiting as her heir — the longest of any in British history. But despite expectation of reform, he has not yet made sweeping changes to the monarchy,…
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The Court of Appeal Registrar Umar Bangari confirmed this to Channels Television on Monday, saying the proceedings will be open to live broadcast by interested television stations. The Labour Party (LP), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), as well as their presidential candidates, had petitioned the tribunal seeking to nullify the election of President Bola Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election. Judgement is also expected to be delivered by election tribunals in 25 states for governorship, National Assembly, and state assembly election petitions. The results of the polls announced by the Independent…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday announced the departure of defence minister Oleksiy Reznikov, calling for “new approaches” a year and a half into Russia’s invasion. The announcement came hours after Ukraine fought off an attack by Russian drones in the southern Odesa region Sunday that hit a Danube port on the border with NATO member Romania.“Oleksiy Reznikov has been through more than 550 days of full-scale war,” Zelensky said in his daily evening address. “I believe that the ministry needs new approaches and other formats of interaction with both the military and society at large.” He nominated Rustem Umerov,…
Following the declaration of a two-day warning strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress, some state chapters of the organised labour union have expressed their readiness to join the industrial action. The leadership of the state chapters of the labour unions, in separate interviews with our correspondents, said they have ordered their members to join the warning strike which is scheduled to be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 5 and 6, 2023. Speaking with our correspondent on Sunday, the Chairman, NLC Lagos chapter, Mrs Agnes Sessi, said Lagos NLC would join the nationwide strike. “We are under the authority of…
A man, identified simply as Hamzat, has cried out after suspected soldiers allegedly invaded his block factory located at Bankole Estate, Magboro, in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, and seized his Toyota RAV 4 vehicle. Hamzat who spoke correspondent on Saturday said the soldiers numbering up to five in a pick-up van were looking for his younger brother, Sulaimon, who is an Islamic cleric. He noted that the matter began after he introduced a yet-to-be-identified suspected Yahoo boy, who is a brother to his girlfriend to Sulaimon for special prayers. He said after the prayer was successful,…
The Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has directed the Commissioner for Health in the state, Dr. Ngozi Okoronkwo, to ensure that a motorcycle rider, Orji Felix, who was injured by a government van, receives the best medical attention at no cost to him or his family. The governor also ordered the immediate suspension of the driver, Onyebuchi Steven, attached to his convoy who was involved in an accident with a motorcyclist in Ohafia Local Government, on Sunday, pending investigation. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr Kazie Uko, on Monday, stated that the investigation was intended…
The Lagos State Government has commenced commercial operation of the Blue Line Rail Mass Transit years after it was first conceived in 1983. According to a live broadcast by Channels Television monitored by DAILY POST on Monday, the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, is taking an inaugural ride from Marina to Mile-2. Recall that former President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned the first phase of the train station in Lagos in January. The first phase extends from Marina to Mile 2 and is 13 kilometres. The 27km rail line will transport about 500,000 passengers daily. The first phase has five stations…
Date: 2023-Sept- 4 🎯TOPIC: FOR THE PRIZE’S SAKE 📺 WATCH THE DEVOTION VIA THE LINK BELOW👇 https://youtu.be/7alZHzz-uDg?si=vkul764QqsEQc5el ✝️ TEXT: 1 Corinthians 9:1-27(NKJV) 9:1. Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? 9:2. If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. 9:3. My defense to those who examine me is this: 9:4. Do we have no right to eat and drink? 9:5. Do we have no right…
Date: 2023-Aug- 31 🎯TOPIC: CONSEQUENCES OF DISOBEDIENCE 📺 WATCH THE DEVOTION VIA THE LINK BELOW👇 https://youtu.be/PEr2Gbpatd0?si=kHt_LLgkIyR3FkA6 ✝️ TEXT: Jeremiah 39(NKJV) 39:1. In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it. 39:2. In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth [day] of the month, the city was penetrated. 39:3. Then all the princes of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-Sharezer, Samgar-Nebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal-Sarezer, Rabmag, with the rest of the princes…
The Rivers State Police Command has arrested a middle-aged man, Patrick Essien, for allegedly stabbing his landlord to a coma in Rumuiprikon, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the landlord, identified as Iheanyichukwu America, had gone to rescue Essien’s wife from him when she was being manhandled. Narrating the incident, the wife of the landlord, Chioma America, said even when her husband intervened, Essien was still dragging his wife into their house. She claimed that during his intervention, the landlord said he would not allow his tenant’s wife to sleep in that house that night…