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Garba Shehu, spokesperson to President Muhammadu Buhari, says the inflation spike is a global problem and not peculiar to Nigeria. On Monday, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released its latest report showing its consumer price index (CPI) which measures the rate of change in prices of goods and services. The CPI […]

Godswill Akpabio, a former minister of Niger Delta affairs, has asked a group of former senators to pray for him and Jibrin Barau, senator representing Kano north. The All Progressives Congress (APC) had nominated Akpabio and Barau for the positions of senate president and deputy in the incoming 10th national assembly. But […]

Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra, says eight LGAs in the state were under siege by hoodlums when he assumed office. Soludo spoke on Tuesday at the induction organised by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum for governors-elect at the presidential villa, Abuja. In recent years, the south-east has been grappling with insecurity characterised by […]

The magistrate’s court sitting in Yaba, Lagos has ordered the police to detain Seun Kuti, the singer, for additional 48 hours to enable their investigation into the alleged assault of one of its officers. Source: Top Stories

A federal high court in Abuja on Tuesday granted the request of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to protect the identity of a witness in a suit against Abba Kyari, suspended deputy commissioner of police. At the court session, Sunday Joseph, NDLEA counsel, asked the judge to restrict lawyers, litigants, visitors […]

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) says the federal government ignored its two weeks ultimatum. The association had threatened to embark on strike if the government was unable to meet its demands. Some of the demands include massive recruitment of clinical staff in the hospitals; immediate infrastructural development in hospitals and […]

Abdulaziz Yari, senator-elect representing Zamfara west, says it would be unfair to the northern part of the country if leaders of the three arms of government are from the south. Yari spoke in an interview with Arise TV on Tuesday. The former Zamfara governor, who declared his bid for senate presidency last […]

Dikko Umar-Radda, the governor-elect of Katsina, says his counterparts should not waste time investigating the activities of their predecessors after assuming office on May 29. Speaking on Monday in an interview with Channels Television, Umar-Radda discussed some of the lessons learned from the 2023 induction workshop for re-elected and newly elected governors. […]

Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the president-elect, and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, who flew the flag of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in the February 25 presidential election, met for four hours in Paris, France, on Monday, TheCable can report. At the centre of the discussion, TheCable understands, was the potential involvement of Kwankwaso in the […]