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Vice President Kashim Shettima has called for stronger ties between Nigeria and the UK to boost trade between the two countries. Shettima made the demand on Wednesday when Richard Montgomery, British high commissioner to Nigeria, paid him a courtesy visit at the presidential villa, Abuja. The vice president said there is a […]

Ahmed Raji, lead counsel representing Albert Bassey, candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) in Akwa Ibom, has asked that the governorship election petition tribunal be transferred to Abuja over alleged threats to his life. In a letter dated June 20 and addressed to the chairman of the tribunal in Uyo, the state […]

A federal high court in Abuja has fixed October 23 to hear a suit by Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum resources, challenging the final forfeiture of her seized assets. In 2022, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) secured the court order for the final forfeiture of two houses belonging to Alison-Madueke, […]

At least 16 people have sustained injuries, seven of them severe, after an explosion in central Paris, the French capital. The blast which happened on Wednesday in Rue Saint-Jacques caused one building’s facade to collapse, while several others caught fire. The area is famed for its high student population. According to […]

Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, says Nigerian leaders need to make more financial commitment to improving healthcare and education. Gates spoke at the Youth Innovation Forum which was held in Lagos on Wednesday. The event — ‘Advancing Africa: Unleashing the Power of Youth in Science and Innovation’ […]

Rescuers say they have detected banging sounds from the Atlantic Ocean as the frantic search to find a missing submersible continues. On Sunday morning, a submersible carrying five people began a two-hour descent to see the wreckage of the Titanic at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, nearly 13,000 feet below land, southeast of […]

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, says rich and middle-income countries should rapidly get rid of their greenhouse gas emissions. Speaking in Lagos on Wednesday, Gates said developed countries need to work on innovations that would help to reduce the cost of green energy for developing countries. […]

The Allied Peoples Movement (APM) has closed its case against President Bola Tinubu‘s election, after calling one witness to support its petition. Chichi Ojei, APM’s candidate, had scored 25,961 votes during the February 25 presidential election. The party is contending that Tinubu was improperly sponsored by the All Progressives Congress (APC) since […]

Samuel Ortom, former governor of Benue state, has been released from the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). An aide of the former governor told TheCable that he was released around 7:30pm on Tuesday night after several hours of “intense” interrogation at the zonal office of the EFCC in Makurdi, […]