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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says a convoy which included a vehicle conveying Atiku Abubakar, its presidential candidate, was attacked in Borno state. Paul Ibe, media adviser to Abubakar, announced the development in a statement issued on Wednesday. Ibe also claimed that supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were behind the […]

The presidency says the call for the resignation of Sadiya Umar Farouq, minister of humanitarian affairs, is “not appropriate”. The Niger Delta caucus in the house of representatives had asked the minister to resign following her recent comment on Bayelsa not being one of the states most affected by flooding. Reacting to […]

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, has met with his Bauchi counterpart, Bala Mohammed. The meeting took place on Wednesday at the government house in Bauchi. Three other governors — Samuel Ortom of Benue, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu — were also at the meeting. The governors, including […]

The naira, on Wednesday, appreciated against the dollar at the parallel section of the foreign exchange market amid increased liquidity. Bureaux De Change (BDC) operators, popularly known as ‘abokis’, who spoke to TheCable in Lagos, quoted the naira at N825 to a dollar. The figure represents a gain of N60 or 6.8 […]

Ifeanyi Ararume, a former senator representing Imo north, has sued President Muhammadu Buhari for allegedly removing him wrongfully as board chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited. Buhari had appointed him as board chairman of the corporation in September 2021 but he was replaced with Margaret Chuba Okadigbo in January. […]

Suspected kidnappers have reportedly attacked passengers travelling along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The gunmen, who launched the attack on Tuesday, were said to have been dressed in military uniforms. The gunmen reportedly came out of the bush and started firing bullets at passengers of an 18-seater bus on the Sagamu axis of the […]

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has sacked more than 11,000 of its employees, representing about 13 percent of the total workforce. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, announced the mass layoffs in a message to employees, which Meta shared on its Newsroom. The development comes few days after Twitter, micro-blogging platform, sacked […]

Sepp Blatter, the former FIFA president, says the decision to award Qatar with the 2022 World Cup was a “mistake”.  In an interview with the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger, the 86-year-old, who was FIFA president when Qatar was awarded the 2020 World Cup hosting rights in 2010, said he had voted for the United States […]