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Fourteen Nigerian banks yet to meet CBN’s recapitalisation ahead of deadline

No fewer than 14 Nigerian commercial banks are yet to meet the Central Bank of Nigeria’s recapitalisation requirement as the 31st March 2026 deadline inches closer.This follows CBN Governor, Olayemi Cardoso’s announcement on Tuesday that sixteen Nigerian banks have met their recapitalisation requirement ahead...

BREAKING: Renowned Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, Dies At 98

The respected Dariqa Islamic scholar, who was born June 29, 1927, died on Thursday, November 27, 2025.Confirming the passing of the cleric, one of his close associates, Daha Azhary Bauchi, announced, “Innaa lillahi wa innaa ilaihi raji’un… Maulana Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi has passed...

BREAKING: NNPCL reduces fuel price after Dangote Refinery, depot owners cut rates

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has reduced its premium motor spirit pump price after Dangote Refinery and depot owners dropped ex-depot prices.A DAILY POST correspondent who went round filling stations in Abuja on Thursday, gathered that the state-owned firm has slashed its fuel...

Georgia judge dismisses 2020 election interference case against Trump

A Georgia judge has dismissed the sprawling 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump, ending the final effort to prosecute the president for allegedly attempting to overturn his loss to Joe Biden.Peter Skandalakis, who took over the case after the initial prosecutor's removal, asked...

Soldiers seize power in Guinea-Bissau and detain the president

A group of military officers say they have seized control of Guinea-Bissau amid reports that the president, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, has been arrested.Shortly after gunshots were heard in the capital, Bissau, government sources told the BBC that Embaló had been detained.The officers then appeared...

‘I panic every time she coughs’ – Delhi’s toxic air is making its children sick

The toxic haze shrouding the Indian capital, Delhi, spares no-one, but its children are counting the biggest cost of the city's worsening and recurrent pollution problem.Nowhere is this more evident than at paediatricians' clinics. The BBC visited one such facility in Noida, near Delhi,...