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Hoodlums have attacked Rabiu Kwankwaso, presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), in Kogi state. Kwankwaso was in Lokoja, Kogi’s capital city, to inaugurate the NNPP secretariat in the state when a mob began pelting him. The NNPP office is located on Kunama road, close to the Kogi government house, […]

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called on Nigerians to protect the country’s democracy from derailing towards dictatorship. Jonathan spoke at the 70th birthday of Mathew Kukah, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, in Abuja, on Wednesday. He said Nigeria is a work in progress and asked citizens not to lower their guard and […]

Earlier in 2022, several countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Canada, began reporting monkeypox cases. This has been particularly worrisome as monkeypox had never been reported in some of these countries, although monkeypox is endemic (regularly found) in Benin, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of […]

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, says some “former generals” threatened him with their connections in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a security outfit of the US government. According to Kelvin Ebiri, special assistant on media to the Rivers governor, Wike said this on Wednesday while inaugurating road projets at Igwurita, Rivers state. […]

The presidency has tackled Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue, over his claim that the federal government allegedly asked security operatives to spare criminal herders. Ortom, in an interview published by ICIR on Monday, accused the federal government of working against efforts to tackle insecurity in the country. The Benue governor said if […]

Capital importation into the country dropped by 2.4 percent in the second quarter (Q2) of 2022, a new report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown. The total capital imported into the country in (Q2) 2022 stood at $1.54 billion from $875.62 million in the corresponding quarter of 2021, showing an […]

The National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN) says only four centres across the country will be used for its computer-based postgraduate fellowship examinations scheduled for September. In a memo seen by TheCable on Wednesday, Oyenike Ekekezie, deputy registrar of the college, said the development is due to a “marked decline” in applications […]

Festus Keyamo, minister of state for labour and employment, says the 1999 constitution doesn’t restrict the vice-president from handling security matters. Speaking at the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) conference in Lagos recently, Kashim Shettima, vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had said if his party wins, he will focus on security, […]

Emirates Airlines has announced the reinstatement of its flight operations to Lagos, starting September 11, 2022. The airline said this in an email to customers on Wednesday. The development comes almost a week after the federal government released the sum of $265 million to foreign airlines in the country to settle outstanding […]