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Ejike Mbaka, spiritual director of Adoration Ministries, Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN), says Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra and presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), cannot be Nigeria’s president because he is “stingy”. Mbaka said this during a prayer service on Wednesday at the church in Enugu. He said it is better […]

Overland Airways says its flight OF1188 en route to Lagos from Ilorin experienced an “unusual high turbine temperature” on one of its engines, noting that all 33 passengers on board disembarked safely. The airline said this in a statement on Thursday. Overland Airways said the incident occurred on Wednesday, June 15, 2022 […]

The Anambra police command says its operatives have rescued 35 teenagers “used as sex slaves” at a hotel in the state.  Tochukwu Ikenga, Anambra police spokesman, announced the development in a statement issued on Wednesday. He said the teenagers, aged between 14 and 17 years, were made to engage in acts such […]

Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi state, says he will still contest the presidency in the near future. Bello spoke on Wednesday, while fielding questions from state house correspondents in Abuja after visiting President Muhammadu Buhari. The governor paid a visit to Buhari to thank him for his support on participating in the […]

The national working committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has set up a committee to screen the vice-presidential candidate of the party for the 2023 elections. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Debo Ologunagba, PDP spokesperson, said the screening of the candidate will take place at the party’s headquarters on Thursday. […]

A magistrate court in Lokoja has sentenced one Habibu Rabiu to two months in prison for posting false information on his Facebook timeline. The Department of State Services (DSS) had arrested Rabiu over comments he made on Facebook. In the post made during the peak of the COVID pandemic, Rabiu said the […]

The national working committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has endorsed Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, as the vice-presidential candidate of the party for the 2023 elections. TheCable understands that the NWC members voted 13-3 to endorse the report of the panel which had earlier nominated Wike for the VP […]

The federal government says it is studying the judgment of the commercial court of England and Wales, which ruled that there was no evidence of fraud in the OPL 245 transaction. Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, said this on Wednesday while fielding questions from journalists after the federal executive council (FEC) […]

The national industrial court in Kaduna has affirmed the superiority of the pension reform act over employee-employer pension agreements. The Pension Reform Act (PRA) of 2004, which governs and regulates the administration of the contributory pension scheme for the public and private sectors in Nigeria, was amended and replaced with the PRA 2014. […]