The Ekiti State House of Assembly has approved the N10 billion supplementary budget presented by Governor Ayodele Fayose. At a sitting which commenced at 12pm on Wednesday, 14 lawmakers, including Kola Oluwawole, the speaker, went through the proposal within an hour and passed it, reports TheCable. The Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, had presented […]

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday said 500,000 graduates had so far been recruited under the Federal Government’s N-power programme. Osinbajo disclosed this at a conference tagged: “Harnessing Demographic Dividend for Sustainable Development in Nigeria: The Role of Religious Leaders,’’ organised by United Nations Population Fund  in Abuja. He noted that the present […]

World dignitaries laid to rest former UN secretary general Kofi Annan in his native Ghana on Thursday, with calls to keep alive the legacy of a “stubborn optimist” to create a better, more peaceful world. His widow Nane Maria led hundreds of mourners, including world leaders past and present, traditional rulers and global royalty, and called her husband […]

An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered the remand of  29-year-old Ojo Yemi for allegedly killing a 65-year-old woman, Josephine Ajayi. The defendant, docked for murder, was alleged to have killed the woman and threw her body into the river. Yemi whose address was not provided, is being tried for murder. The prosecutor, Inspector […]

Pope Francis met with US bishops and cardinals on Thursday to discuss the Vatican’s response to a new wave of devastating claims of sexual abuse by clergy. The pope met Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, who leads the US Conference of Bishops, and Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, who advises the pope on sex abuse […]

Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency said flood had killed 10 persons and displaced scores of others, following the recent heavy rainfall recorded in the state. Dr Muhammed Suleiman, the Executive Secretary of the agency, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Yola. Suleiman said that hundreds of […]

Damasak, the location of 145 Batallion of the Nigerian Army remained calm on Thursday after troops inflicted heavy casualty on the Boko Haram terrorists. The insurgents attack the location on Wednesday at  6p.m. but withdrew about 11p.m. following superior fire power of the troops. In the last 24 hours, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. […]

A 28-year-old man, Mr. Nurudeen Lliyasu, has climbed a telecommunication mast in Abuja, to protest the poor economy in the country. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the man was seen on top of the mast at about noon on Wednesday at AYA, Abuja. NAN also reports that posters with different inscriptions were seen […]

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday promised to strengthen the army and supply it with new generation weapons, as he traveled to watch Russia’s biggest war games since the fall of the Soviet Union. The Vostok-2018 (East-2018) drills taking place in eastern Siberia close to the border with China involve 300,000 Russian troops as well as […]

The West African Examinations Council has cautioned candidates in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination  against fraudsters, who are bent on jeopardising the performance of the examination. Mr Demianus Ojijeogu, Head of Public Affairs, WAEC, gave the warning in a statement in Abuja on Thursday. He said the attention of the council had […]

Liberian President  George Weah has  said  he wants his country to emulate Nigeria in terms of football development. Speaking after Tuesday night’s friendly match between the Lone Star and the Super Eagles at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex in Monrovia won by Nigeria   2-1, Weah said  Nigerian football has always inspired him. The match  […]

Olufemi Atoyebi, Ibadan The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Adetunji, on Wednesday, described one of the high chiefs crowned by the Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi, Owolabi Olakulehin, as rude and verbally reckless for saying that the Osi Olubadan, Rashidi Ladoja, was misleading him in an interview he (Olakulehin) granted last week. In the interview, […]

The migrant hero nicknamed “Spiderman” for saving a child hanging off a balcony by scaling a Paris apartment block with his bare hands has become a French citizen, according to a government decree. Nimble 22-year-old Mamoudou Gassama from Mali was granted a fast-track to French nationality and a job in the fire service after the […]

Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, may have finally defected from the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party. Our correspondent gathered on Wednesday night that the embattled speaker had picked the PDP nomination and expression of interest forms to return to the House in 2019. A member […]

Olaleye Aluko, Abuja The Chief of the Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, has relocated to the Boko Haram terrorists-ravaged areas in the Lake Chad region of Borno State, just as the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, is expected on Thursday (today) in order to seek solutions to the incessant terrorist attacks. […]

Abimbola Adelakun On the few occasions when President Muhammadu Buhari has addressed Nigerian issues directly, without his aides ventriloquising his words, his thoughts have been revelatory. The picture of him that emerges in those moments is not always pretty. He comes across as inflexibly self-righteous, a former dictator with sanctimonious views that remain unreconstructed. Lately, […]

Joel Nwokeoma The stoic mien he has put on in public in recent days notwithstanding, it is obvious that these are not the best of times for Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State. And it just speaks of the unpredictability of the game of politics and its definition by the Prussian philosopher, Otto Von Bismarck, […]

Oladimeji Ramon A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana, has proposed that soldiers should be stopped from wearing the army uniform outside the barracks in order to check some of the criminal activities being perpetrated in the society. According to him, some soldiers, while wearing uniform outside the barracks, provide cover for criminals and […]

John Alechenu, Abuja The All Progressives Congress has rejected what it described as a doomsday prophecy by two British based institutions about Nigeria’s economic and political future should President Muhammadu Buhari win in 2019. APC’s position was contained in a statement signed by its acting National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, in Abuja, on Wednesday. The […]

The Senate has told the President to respect the provision of the Electoral Act that pegs the maximum donation to a political campaign at N1m. The upper chamber of the National Assembly also condemned the APC for selling its nomination form for the presidential election for N45m. The Vice-Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media […]

Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif has been temporarily released from jail so that he can attend his wife’s funeral, officials and family members said Wednesday. His daughter Maryam Nawaz and her husband were also released overnight Tuesday to accompany the former leader to the eastern city of Lahore for the funeral, Information Minister Fawad […]

Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri 24 hours after gunmen murdered a Catholic church priest, Rev. Fr Jude Egbom, and one other person in Nkwerre, Nkwerre Local Government Area of Imo State, some gunmen have again shot dead a sergeant, Christian Nnamani, in Owerri the state capital. The hoodlums who made away with the AK47 rifle belonging to the […]

China’s Anta Sports Products has offered to pay $5.5 billion for the firm that makes the Wilson tennis racquets used by Serena Williams, it said in a statement Wednesday. Anta has joined buyout firm FountainVest Partners to offer 40 euros ($46.50) a share for Finland’s Amer Sports, one of the world’s biggest sports equipment firms […]

Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose, on Wednesday revealed that he had sent a letter to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to inform them of his availability to answer their questions a day after his exit from government. Fayose shared a photo of the letter he sent to the anti-graft agency on his Twitter handle, […]

Oladimeji Ramon Some police operatives on Wednesday morning arrested a lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, at the Federal High Court in Lagos. Ogungbeje had represented the alleged billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans. Policemen said to be from the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, swooped on the lawyer as he parked his car at the Federal High Court […]

Liverpool midfielder Naby Keita says it will take time to justify the £52 million ($63 million) fee the club paid for the Guinea international. The 23-year-old — who is expected to start this weekend’s match with Tottenham Hotspur despite being left on the bench for Liverpool’s previous clash with Leicester City — told the Liverpool […]

Pope Francis announced on Wednesday he intends to visit Japan in 2019, becoming the first pontiff to do so since John Paul II. “I would like to communicate my intention to visit Japan next year,” the pope told a group of Japanese during an audience at the Vatican. “I hope to be able to fulfil […]

Minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has defended the planned construction of Transportation University in Daura, Katsina State. Daura is the hometown of President Muhammadu Buhari and the construction of the N18 billion project is scheduled to start in 2019, reports TheCable Addressing journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, Amaechi said there is nothing special about building […]

President Vladimir Putin of Russia said on Wednesday that North Korea was taking a lot of steps toward denuclearising the Korean Peninsula but Washington was not responding and was making endless demands for full disarmament instead. Washington and Pyongyang have been discussing North Korea’s nuclear programme since their leaders met in Singapore in June. The summit’s outcome was […]

Niyi  Odebode, John Alechenu, Sam Awoyinfa and Chidiebube Okeoma The All Progressives Congress on Tuesday explained the condition that should be met by state chapters of the party before adopting the consensus option for primaries. The APC, in a statement by its acting National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, in Abuja, on Tuesday, said the consensus […]

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Russian authorities have identified the two people suspected by London of poisoning Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. “We know who they are, we have found them,” Putin told the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok. The Russian president noted that […]

Enyioha Opara, Minna Bina community in the Lapai Local Government Area of Niger State was thrown into mourning on Tuesday following the recovery of the bodies of two farmers who died in a canoe accident on Sunday. The recovery of the bodies of Suleiman Ibrahim and Tanko Hassan, it was learnt, took the five divers […]

Umar Muhammed, Lafia Some car dealers in Lafia, Nasarawa State have lamented their losses, estimated at N3.5m, in the Monday gas explosion in a part of the city. Two brothers told our correspondent on Tuesday in Lafia that they lost five cars and a motorcycle to the inferno in which many were killed and scores […]

Armstrong Bakam, Bauchi There was palpable fear in the Yelwa area of Bauchi on Tuesday when cultists disrupted the burial of a suspected cult member who was  reportedly killed by a rival group on Sunday night. The deceased, whose name was given as Dindara Yusuf, was said to be 14 years old. Northern City News […]