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Ibrahim Ahmad, president of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria (SCSN), is dead. Ahmed reportedly died in the early hours of Thursday. The cleric is said to have been battling an unknown ailment. Funeral prayers were held for him at Alfurqan Mosque located at Nassarawa government reserved area (GRA) in Kano […]

Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, has listed 100 achievements of the Buhari administration in 2021. Addressing a press conference in Lagos on Thursday, Mohammed said despite challenges that came with 2021, the administration made “tremendous” progress in fighting insecurity and growing the economy. “What we have done here is to […]

Victor Osimhen has tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time in 2021. Napoli, the Italian football giants, confirmed the Nigerian forward’s COVID-19 status on its Twitter handle on Thursday. The Italian club added that the former Wolfsburg striker has since been in isolation. This will be the second time the […]

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) says it will open an application portal for the 2022 entrepreneurship programme from January 1. TEF said this in an update on its website — www.TEFConnect.com. African entrepreneurs with business ideas or existing businesses under five years are encouraged to apply for $5000 seed capital, mentorship, business […]

Lagos, the economic nerve centre of Nigeria and a city renowned for hustling and bustling, witnessed a mixed bag of events — good, bad and ugly — in 2021. TheCable highlights some of the tragic occurrences that transpired in Lagos in 2021. IKOYI BUILDING COLLAPSE The Ikoyi building collapse will not […]

Nigeria on Wednesday recorded 1,355 cases of COVID-19. Here are five updates about the pandemic this Thursday.  WHO warns: Omicron, Delta forming ‘tsunami’ of COVID cases The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned the Omicron and Delta COVID-19 variants could produce a “tsunami” of cases that will put “immense pressure” on health […]

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, says while he was a student, all the male members of his family were arrested over a murder charge arising from a chieftaincy dispute. He said this on Tuesday night at an event to mark the 65th birthday of Emmanuel Ukala, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), […]

The federal government says it will improve access to foreign exchange for the importation of raw materials and machines unavailable locally. President Muhammadu Buhari said this in Abuja on Wednesday while responding to requests from the manufacturing sector on how to increase its contribution to the Nigerian economy. The government had banned […]