US President-elect Donald Trump has announced the appointment of former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Tom Homan as the incoming administration’s “Border Czar.”

In this role, Homan will oversee national border security and manage the deportation of undocumented immigrants.

Trump expressed confidence in Homan’s capabilities, stating, “I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Trump Administration, in charge of our Nation’s Borders.”

Homan, who served as acting ICE director from January 2017 to June 2018, has been a prominent advocate for stringent immigration enforcement policies.

His tenure was marked by a significant increase in deportation arrests and the implementation of policies aimed at deterring illegal immigration.

His return to the administration signals a continuation of hardline immigration strategies.

In addition to Homan’s appointment, Trump had named Susie Wiles as his incoming White House Chief of Staff.

Wiles, who managed Trump’s successful 2024 presidential campaign, is recognized for her strategic expertise and leadership.

Her appointment marks the first time a woman will hold the position of White House Chief of Staff.

Wiles’ extensive experience in political consulting and her role in orchestrating Trump’s campaign are expected to influence the administration’s policy direction and operational efficiency.

Observers anticipate that Homan and Wiles will play pivotal roles in shaping the administration’s approach to border security and overall governance.

A former member of the House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has insisted that the controversial tax reform bill presented by President Bola Tinubu will be passed into law by the National Assembly.

Jibrin, disagreed with the position of Borno Senator, Ali Ndume, who said the bill was dead on arrival.

Speaking on Sunday during an interview with Channels TV, Jibrin, who represented Kiru/Bebeji Federal Constituency of Kano State in the House of Representatives, said contrary to the belief in certain quarters, the North is not against the bill.

He said the National Assembly would check the clauses in the bill, and it will be passed.

According to him, after the bill is passed, Nigerians would also be able to see that what President Bola Tinubu packaged in the bill is in their interest.

“It is not a consensus in the North that this bill should be shut down. And talking for myself and also how I know the National Assembly operates in terms of following procedures of the passage of the bill, I can be able to tell you authoritatively that the bill is not dead on arrival,” Jibrin said on the programme.

“I can explain to you that hundreds of clauses in these bills are things we have been pursuing for ages and I will be able to tell you this; the work that we are going to do for Nigerians to see all the clauses in detail and everything, I can confidently tell you that bill will go through the processes in the National Assembly and it will be passed,” he added.

Naija News reports that despite the controversy generated by the bill, including the recommendation by the National Economic Council led by Vice President Kashim Shettima for the bill to be stepped down, President Tinubu has insisted that the bill would not be withdrawn from the National Assembly.

The estimated cost of landing Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol, on Nigeria’s shores has seen a significant 20.34 per cent reduction, falling to ₦971.57 per litre over the past three months.

This decline, which includes importation and distribution expenses, reflects relief from global market fluctuations and supply chain dynamics.

Despite this drop, the retail price of petrol in Nigeria has surged by ₦443 or 71.79 per cent, increasing from ₦617 per litre on August 1, 2024, to ₦1,060 per litre as of November 8, 2024. Independent marketers are selling at even higher prices, up to ₦1,180 per litre.

Data from the Major Energies Marketers Association’s daily energy bulletin indicates that in August, oil marketers imported petrol at ₦1,219 per litre when Brent crude was priced at $80.72 per barrel, with an exchange rate of ₦1,611 per dollar. During this period, petrol retailed at ₦617 per litre.

However, by November, the landing cost had dropped to N971.57 per litre, with Brent crude priced at $75.57 per barrel and the exchange rate at ₦1,665.84 per dollar.

Yet, petrol now sells for ₦1,060 per litre at Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) outlets and ₦1,180 at independent marketer stations.

The data also shows that the landing cost stood at ₦945.63 in September and ₦903.64 per litre in October 2024.

The increase in retail price, despite falling landing costs, is attributed to factors such as the ongoing deregulation of the fuel market, exchange rate fluctuations, rising inflation, and wider economic challenges.

Experts expect that the decline in landing costs should result in lower retail prices. However, on Sunday, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) accused fuel marketers of inflating petrol prices, stating that the current pump price is disproportionately high compared to the actual market value.

In a communique following its National Executive Council meeting, the NLC argued that Nigerians are being exploited, enduring heightened suffering and hunger due to government policies pushing many into poverty.

Ebonyi State-based prophet, His Holiness, Spirit Emmanuel Chukwudi, who prophesied the emergence of Mr Donald Trump has again said that former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will still become the president of Nigeria.

According to him, the All Progressives Congress, APC, has disappeared from the spirit realm.

Chukwudi, who is the General Overseer King of Kings Deliverance Ministries Worldwide, Gbonum Ulepa Ntezi, Ishielu Local Government Area, Ebonyi State, gave the prophecy while speaking in an interview shortly after Trump defeated Kamala Harris last week. 

Chukwudi had days before the US election, predicted victory for Trump.

He has now said Atiku will become president, as God has directed him to announce it again to Nigerians.

He stated “Today, the Lord has said it again, that just as Donald Trump was elevated to lead Americans on November 5, so shall it come to pass in Nigeria regarding His word on Atiku Abubakar.

“I prophesied in 2019 and 2023, that Uzodinma will win, and he won.

“In 2011, I told Buhari that Goodluck Jonathan will be president.

“Jonathan won and Buhari lost. In 2014, I told Goodluck to retire, that Buhari will rule. The word of God came through me as Buhari won and Goodluck lost.

“In 2015, didn’t I say that Prince Abubakar Audu of APC will win in Kogi? Didn’t he win? He won and died.

“In 2020, I warned Chief Chekwas Okorie of APGA and UPP not to join APC, that he will disappear permanently from politics. Didn’t it happen?”

While decrying the release of fake prophecy by people he called puppet prophets, he declared that: “For many years, I have prophesied that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will become president. It has not yet happened and Nigerians are arguing that my prophecy is false. But know that the word of God does not fail.

“I have made tons and tons of prophecies, and they all came to pass. I don’t prophecy and fail. The word of God lives in me. I cannot even list half of them here.

“Three times, I have said that Donald Trump will be pardoned by God because he is on a rescue mission to save America and the world from the kingdom of darkness. Just a few days before the election, it happened again as I said that he must become president.

“Just like Trump, Atiku is coming. Every word of the Lord shall come to pass and His Word on Atiku shall also come to pass.

“As a matter of fact, the APC has disappeared from the spirit realm. So, Atiku is coming. He will be president. He has been reserved to save Nigeria, and it shall manifest in our presence.”

Niger State Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago has urged the state task force for price control of food items to take swift action against aggregators hoarding food items in their warehouses.

Bago made the call during the flagged-off of the Niger Foods’ corn harvest along Bida Road in a bid to achieve his Feed the Nation Agenda through mechanised agriculture.

He explained that the move was aimed at preventing artificial scarcity and ensure availability of essential commodities at reasonable prices.

” The activities of aggregators often lead to hikes in prices of food items as they stockpile them in their warehouses, ” he noted.

The governor, who was elated with the harvest, disclosed that so far, there are more than 100,000 hectares of corn fields of Niger Foods spread across the state, adding that 100 combined harvesters have been deployed to the farms.

According to him: “The use of the combined harvesters would reduce losses between 80 and 90 per cent. The state is expecting about a million metric tonnes of corn this year aside from rice, Soya bean, sesame, guinea corn and millet.”

In a related development, Bago visited the Emi Guye community around the farm, and interacted with the people while directing that some basic amenities such as water and solar energy be provided to the community and other adjourning communities.

Responding on behalf of the community, the village Head of Emi Guye, Alh. Usman Mohammed, thanked the governor and commended him for his development strides in the state.

The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has urged Nigerian judges, particularly justices of the Supreme Court to administer justice with the fear of God.

Sanusi made this call at a public discourse in Lagos with the theme, “Ethics, Morality And The Law,” charging them to remember that they are accountable to God.

The event was held in honour of Justice Habeed Abiru who was recently elevated as a justice of the Supreme Court.

He said his New Year resolution is that he no longer wants to be controversial.

The monarch advised the judges to be upright and should not allow hatred for people to make them do what is not right.

He also charged them to focus more on substantive justice, and not rely on technicalities.

“Do not be an advocate for wrongdoers and do not be an advocate for those who deceive themselves, because Allah does not love sinful wrongdoers.

“When your friends come to you, when government comes to you, and you listen to them and you tilt judgement in their favour, ask yourself, who will be your advocate before God, on the Day of Judgment?” he asked.

A northern Nigeria group, Northern Youths Movement, NYM, has tackled former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido over his recent comments concerning the affairs of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Lamido had come hard on the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chief Nyesom Wike, calling him a “small boy in PDP history” and asked “where he was in 1999”.

However, in a statement made available to DAILY POST on Sunday, which was signed by its Chairman, Mallam Ishaya Jato, the NYM reminded Lamido that those he kept referring to as children and small boys were the ones who did not let the PDP die “in aftermath of the 2014 rebellion in which he (Lamido) played prominent roles before he backed out.”

The youth group said it was ironic that those who were children when PDP was being formed had grown to maturity and were now fathers of many political children, while some of the elders of 1998 are still acting like children.

According to the group, “Little wonder that after being a Minister and Governor for eight years, an elder like Lamido had no other person in Jigawa State to present as PDP governorship candidate other than his own son.

“If in the estimation of Lamido, who became a political elder at 50 years, 57-year-old Wike is still a small boy, we wonder what he (Lamido) has become 36 years after he became an elder? Should he now be seen as an ancestral PDP elder?”

They accused Lamido of disparaging former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, as well as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in like fashion.

“Two years ago, Lamido publicly said ‘Obasanjo was an unknown prisoner when PDP was formed.’ Ironically, he went on to admonish Obasanjo to stop talking down on people publicly.

“In 2019, it was Atiku that Lamido described as his junior in politics, saying that he was in the House of Representatives in 1979 when Atiku was still an employee of Nigerian Customs Services.

“As a sitting PDP Governor, Lamido was everywhere disparaging President Jonathan, calling his government a failure.

“Even out of office, Lamido has not stopped disparaging President Jonathan.

“Therefore, we are not surprised that since Lamido and others deceived Atiku to lose the 2023 presidential election, by making him to see himself as President-In-Waiting, more than seven months before the election, he has been venting his frustration and anger on Wike, just because he, alongside other governors like Seyi Makinde, Samuel Ortom, Okezie Ikpeazu and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi refused to be treated like children in a their own party,” the group further claimed.

DAILY POST recalls that the PDP has yet to recover from its loss at the 2023 presidential election, with a major leadership crisis bedevilling the party ever since.

Popular Lagos socialite Pretty Mike has claimed that Magodo is a place where married women often indulge in sexual affairs with younger men.

Magodo is a town in Kosofe LG bounded by Ikosi-Ketu and Ojodu Berger in Lagos state.

Speaking in a recent interview on Arise TV, Pretty Mike alleged that women in this area engage in illicit relationships without their husbands’ knowledge.

He made the claim while reacting to sex scandal involving embattled ex-Equatorial Guinea’s anti-graft boss Baltasar Engonga,

Pretty Mike argued that some societies accept open marriages, where couples consent to extramarital affairs.

According to him, “I think it is their thing. We are in a society where husbands are allowed to sleep with other women and women allowed to sleep with other men.

“In Lagos here it is heavy. Magodo is their headquarters in Lagos. Married women who sleep with young boys. Husbands of those married women are not aware.

“If you are a husband and you are not aware your wife is sleeping with other men that means something is wrong. Or it is a tight niche or a cartel where everybody is having fun.

“They know their husbands are cheating. They would just come together and say ‘you know what, our Ogas are doing this thing, let us just have our own fun.

“Trust me, any day this video or scandal comes out, I am sure it will be small compared to what we saw in Equatorial Guinea.”

Nollywood actress, Mercy Aigbe has finally spoken about her decision to marry popular movie marketer, Kazim Adeoti, professionally called Adekaz.

The actress spoke during her recent appearance on _Nollywood on Radio’.

Mercy Aigbe announced her third marriage with Adekaz in January 2022, as second wife.

Speaking of her decision to be Adekaz’s second wife, the actress stated, “One of the reasons I got married to him is that we are both in the same industry.

“Together, we are building a production empire. I just felt I needed someone to collaborate with in the industry, and it is a good thing that he understands it too. Combining our strengths, the future looks promising.”