TheCable News

The National Labour Congress (NLC) says it will embark on a nationwide protest on July 26 and 27 in solidarity with the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). ASUU has been on strike for months over the failure of the federal government to honour an agreement on issues bordering on […]

Yakubu Maikyau, senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has emerged winner of the Nigerian Bar Association presidential election. According to the Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA), only 59,392 lawyers – the highest ever – were accredited to vote in the election held on Saturday. Maikyau polled a total of 22,342 […]

Rauf Aregbesola, minister of interior and former governor of Osun, has reacted to the defeat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the governorship election in the state. On Sunday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Ademola Adeleke, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, the winner of the Osun governorship election. […]

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has congratulated Ademola Adeleke on his victory in the Osun state governorship election. Adeleke, candidate of the PDP, was declared the winner of the Osun governorship election on Sunday morning. Adeleke secured 403,371 votes to defeat Gboyega Oyetola, his closest challenger and governor […]

Source: Top Stories

Abdullahi Adamu, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says his party does not want to lose any member but it cannot force anyone to stay. Speaking with journalists on Saturday after visiting Abdullahi Mohammed, governor of Nasarawa, at the government house in Lafia, Adamu said it is a “season for defection” […]

Ademola Adeleke, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been declared the winner of the Osun governorship election. Toyin Ogundipe, returning officer for the state, announced the result of the election on Sunday morning. “I declare that Adeleke Jackson Nurudeen Ademola of the PDP, having satisfied the requirements of the law, […]

The rumpus over the Muslim-Muslim presidential pairing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was, I have to say, inevitable. I would be lying to say I was surprised. Since Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced the choice of Alhaji Kashim Shettima, former governor of Borno state, as his running mate, the outrage has been deafening. […]

Ademola Adeleke, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Osun governorship election, has taken an early lead. The PDP candidate has secured victory in not less than seven LGAs, more than the four LGAs won so far by Gboyega Oyetola, the All Progressives Congress (APC) flag bearer. To win […]