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Premier League west London club, Chelsea, have signed two new players to their academy side. The Blues, in a post on their website on Monday, confirmed that Riley Ebho and Jashayde Greenwood have signed scholarship contracts with the club’s Under-18s. Both new players will join Hassan Sulaiman’s squad, who have made a strong start to the new campaign in the Under-18 Premier League. Ebho, a talented right-back, joins Chelsea from West Ham United. The 16-year-old impressed last season for West Ham’s Under-18s, despite still being a schoolboy. Greenwood arrives from Wolverhampton Wanderers and has already featured in the Under-18 Premier…

Ahead of the October 20 planned protest march for the release of detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, a global pan-Igbo association, Ndi Igbo World Union, has urged all Igbos to support the exercise. DAILY POST reports that the protest march, which is slated to culminate at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, is being organized by activist, Omoyele Sowore. Already, several prominent Nigerians, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, have joined their voices to the renewed calls for Kanu’s release. In a statement issued in Peabody, Massachusetts, USA, on Monday, signed by Benjamin I. Nwankwo, Chairman,…

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has frowned upon the threat by the Federal Government to invoke the “No Work, No Pay” policy against striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. The NLC declared that such intimidation would not resolve the crisis in the nation’s public tertiary institutions, urging the Federal Government to save public education or face the wrath of the workers. The NLC President, Joe Ajaero, made the declaration in a press statement on Monday while reacting to the warning strike embarked upon by the union. Ajaero noted that the lecturers’ action was a legitimate response…

Ahead of Governor Peter Mbah’s defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Tuesday, the youth wing of apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has justified the governor’s decision. The group made its opinion known in a statement issued on Monday by its National President, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike. Okwu, Peoples Democratic Party had done too much injustice to the South-East, and noted that the youths were with the governor. According to him, the marriage between the PDP and the South-East ended in 2023 when the party refused to micro zone its ticket to the zone. He said instead, “it…

Police in Jigawa State has confirmed the killing of three persons while seven sustained severe injuries in a violent communal clash at Birniwa Local Government Area. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Lawan Shiisu Adam, confirmed the incident to DAILY POST. He said the incident happened on Wednesday night when a group of suspected criminals invaded Dagaceri Village, setting houses on fire and attacking individuals. He said, a combined team of security personnel swiftly moved to the scene to restore order and arrested seven suspects in connection with the violence. SP Shiisu added that security operatives recovered mobile phones and…

Popular Nigerian gospel singer, Frank Edwards has expressed sadness over the death of popular gospel preacher, Rev. Uma Ukpai. He is the founder and president of the Uma Ukpai Evangelistic Association. According to a statement issued on Monday by the family, the popular clergy died on October 6 at the age of 80. The social media is currently being awash with condolences from followers and many other Nigerians. Reacting, Frank Edwards revealed that he was healed of asthma and pneumonia during a crusade hosted by the deceased. He wrote, “At age 8 I got healed of asthma and pneumonia in…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump met on Monday with families of hostages and survivors of captivity at the Knesset, shortly after the latest group of Israeli hostages was released from Gaza. An image from the meeting shows Trump leaning forward attentively as one participant speaks into a microphone, with Netanyahu seated beside him. The gathering brought together relatives of freed captives, advocacy representatives, and former hostages who endured two years in Hamas captivity. According to officials, the session was intended both to honor the resilience of those affected and to reaffirm US-Israeli cooperation in the ongoing…

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has warned the anti-democratic forces and conspirators of good governance, conveying an unvarnished truth against David Umahi, saying he stands as a remarkable gift from President Bola Tinubu to the Igbo people. Ohanaeze said Umahi’s recent appointment as Minister of Works transcends mere political symbolism, shattering a 74-year-old jinx, as he becomes the first Igbo individual to hold this prestigious position since 1951. The pan-Igbo group stated that Ndigbo will unwaveringly protect and defend Senator Umahi against any insidious conspiracies and clandestine political machinations orchestrated by the detractors of President Tinubu. This is…

The International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, has confirmed the release of seven Israeli hostages from Gaza, marking the beginning of the implementation of a US-brokered ceasefire deal. Under the agreement, nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees held in Israel are also expected to be freed in the first phase of the exchange. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump is heading to Israel, where he is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and address the Israeli parliament. He will also meet with some of the families of the freed hostages. In a post on X, the Israeli Defense Forces…

Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has said that the US Senator Ted Cruz’s allegations of Christian genocide in Nigeria are based on hearsay. Bwala made this statement in an interview on ‘Sunday Politics’, a programme on Channels Television. DAILY POST recalls that Senator Ted Cruz had alleged that the killing in Nigeria is a calculated genocide against the Christians. Responding, Bwala said, “First of all Senator Ted Cruz is having a declining popularity in the US because of some of the extreme positions he has taken which people are not happy with him. “Some…