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The senate committee on power has summoned Chiedu Ugbo, the managing director of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC), over the alleged mismanagement of $500 million electricity assets, TheCable understands. The NDPHC is jointly owned by the federal government, states and LGAs to manage the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPPs). The […]

Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house of representatives, says Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, is “destined” to join the All Progressives Congress (APC). Gbajabiamila spoke on Friday when he inaugurated the official quarters for members of the house of assembly in Rivers. Wike had invited Gbajabiamila to unveil the legislative quarters built […]

Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), on Friday, attended the ongoing convention of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). Obi’s presence at the convention is a first for the presidential candidate. The development comes days after Obi received a standing ovation from worshippers at Dunamis international gospel centre […]

Hope Uzodimma, governor of Imo, says the country will continue to rely on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to secure the country’s economy. Uzodimma said this on Friday while speaking with state house correspondents after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. The World Bank had said the current petrol subsidy regime poses […]

Asisat Oshoala, Super Falcons striker, has been listed among the nominees for the 2022 women’s Ballon d’Or. The 20-woman list was announced on Friday. The 27-year-old Nigerian was nominated for the award because of her exploits with Barcelona Femeni during the just concluded 2021/22 season. Oshoala won the golden boot in the […]

Salman Rushdie, a renowned author who has received death threats over his writings, has been stabbed in the United States. Rushdie, author of the controversial novel, The Satanic Verses, was attacked while he was about to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. A man was said to have […]

Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, says the negotiations between the federal government and kidnappers who attacked an Abuja-Kaduna train did not yield the expected result. He said this on Friday in an interview published by BBC Hausa. On March 28, a Kaduna-bound train was attacked by gunmen, with several persons killed, injured and […]

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited says it has renewed oil production sharing contracts (PSCs) with its partners — after nearly three-decade. NNPC said it also resolved lingering disputes with its production sharing contracts (PSCs) contractors.  PSCs are contracts between E&P and the government concerning how much of the resource extracted […]

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, has reportedly disowned a suit seeking the disqualification of Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Supporters of Wike had taken Atiku, Aminu Tambuwal, governor of Sokoto, and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court over the conduct of the PDP presidential […]