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President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the harmonised retirement age for teachers bill into law. Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. Buhari had sent the executive bill to the national assembly in June 2021. The house of representatives and […]

Nigeria now has the highest number of attacks by the Islamic State (IS), according to Jihad Analytics, a consultancy company which processes data on global and cyber jihad. According the report, half of the attacks claimed by IS since the beginning of 2022 were in Africa, while the Islamic State in West […]

Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi, says under his administration, nothing less than 2,000 millionaires have been made in the state. Speaking on Friday at the ‘Second Annual GYB Seminar for Nigeria’s Political and Crime Correspondents’ in Abuja, Bello said if elected president, he would lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty. Last […]

Three persons including a village head have been killed following an attack by gunmen in several communities in Munya LGA, Niger state. Garba Muhammed, chairman of the LGA, confirmed the attack to TheCable on Friday. Muhammed said the gunmen attacked nearly seven villages, adding that the community head of Dnadna village in […]

Where do we go from here? Do we go to Pharaoh Sesostris III of Egypt to become ‘’prime minister’’ or do we go to Xerxes of Persia to earn a place in the council? Whichever way, there has to be a ‘’go’’. The south-east may be hamstrung by burdensome choices as regards the 2023 […]

Dino Melaye, former senator representing Kogi west, has berated Ayodele Fayose, former governor of Ekiti, for “demarketing” two presidential hopefuls in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). On Wednesday, Fayose purchased the nomination form of the PDP to contest for the party’s presidential ticket. Shortly after purchasing the form, a video where the […]

Mele Kyari, group managing director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, has called for the speedy establishment of a special court to try cases of oil theft. Kyari spoke on Thursday when he appeared before the house of representatives committee on petroleum resources upstream. The committee is investigating the […]

Mike Adenuga, chairman of Globacom, a telecommunication company in Nigeria, has seen his wealth grow to $7.3 billion from $6.1 billion in 2021. The 68-year-old business tycoon is the second richest African and No 345 globally. In 2021, Adenuga’s fortune dropped from $7 billion in 2020 to $6.3 billion as the COVID-19 […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has requested the approval of N4 trillion as payments for petrol subsidy payments in 2022. The president said this in a letter addressed to the house of representatives, titled “Submission of the Revised 2022 Fiscal Framework”. Femi Gbajamila, speaker of the house of representatives, read the letter during a […]