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Three police officers have been killed by some gunmen in Umunze, Orumba south LGA of Anambra state. The officers were reportedly killed on Thursday, at a checkpoint along Umunze-Ihite road in the community. The gunmen reportedly invaded the area and opened fire on the officers, killing three. Tochuckwu Ikenga, Anambra police […]

Victor Osimhen, Super Eagles striker, was on target as Napoli were crowned Serie A champions on Thursday night. The 24-year-old former Lille striker scored the equalizer in their 1-1 draw at Udinese as Napoli became Serie A champions for the first time in 33 years. Sandi Lovric had given Udinese the lead […]

The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) says the second batch of evacuated Nigerians from Sudan will arrive in the country on Thursday. The commission made the announcement in a tweet a few hours ago but didn’t state the exact time the evacuees would arrive in Abuja, the nation’s capital. We are expecting […]

Festus Keyamo, minister of state for labour and employment, says Bola Tinubu, president-elect, will be sworn into office to avoid a vacuum in the government. Keyamo spoke in reaction to comments credited to John Onaiyekan, former Catholic archbishop of Abuja, who said “it doesn’t make much sense” for Tinubu to be sworn in […]

The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) says as much as 70 percent of private school teachers in the southwest are unqualified. Josiah Ajiboye, registrar of the council, spoke on Thursday in Abuja when the TRCN signed an MoU with Instill Education, a professional development institute for teachers. He said, contrary to […]

Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, has promised that his administration will make corruption unattractive in the judiciary. According to a statement by Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, a media aide, Tinubu spoke in Port Harcourt, Rivers, during the commissioning of the state’s magistrate courts complex on Thursday. The former Lagos governor was declared the winner of […]

Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, says an ad hoc committee of the senate investigating a N6 trillion unpaid ground rent should direct its enquiries to the office or the secretary to the government of the federation (OSGF). The upper legislative chamber had set up the committee to investigate and recover over […]

John Onaiyekan, former Catholic archbishop of Abuja, says “it doesn’t make much sense” for President-elect Bola Tinubu to be sworn in before the conclusion of the election tribunal. Tinubu is expected to be sworn in as president on May 29. His victory is being challenged in court by Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples […]

Troops of operation Desert Sanity 2 have rescued two of the three Family Health International (FHI360) staff abducted by the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) in Borno.  TheCable had reported how ISWAP abducted the aid workers and two security guards during an attack on the NGO’s guest house in Gamboru Ngala […]

Muhammad Yusuf, Sudan’s ambassador to Nigeria, has asked Nigerian evacuees to return to the North African country after the crisis cools off. Yusuf made the request in the early hours of Thursday morning shortly after some of the evacuated Nigerians arrived at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja. The Nigerians arrived in […]