TheCable News

Hope Uzodimma, governor of Imo, says the south-east was denied the opportunity to produce the next president owing to a lack of equity.  Uzodimma spoke on Wednesday when he featured on Sunrise Daily, a Channels TV programme. There has been a clamour for political parties to zone their presidential tickets to the south-east. […]

Source: Top Stories

At the ongoing presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), a total of seven presidential hopefuls have stepped down from contesting and backed Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos. The presidential primary is holding at the Eagle Square in Abuja. Ibikunle Amosun, former Ogun state governor, and Kayode Fayemi, Ekiti governor, […]

Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo, says 22 persons have been confirmed dead following the attack on St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo state. The church was attacked by gunmen on Sunday, with several persons killed and others injured. The incident has elicited public sympathy nationally and internationally Speaking in a statewide […]

Godswill Akpabio, former minister of Niger Delta affairs, has stepped down from the presidential race and asked his supporters to vote for Bola Tinubu. He spoke on Tuesday at the special convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to elect the presidential candidate of the ruling party. According to Akpabio, Tinubu, former […]

Isa Burji, zonal chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Jigawa central, is dead. Burji reportedly slumped and died at a hotel in Abuja. Abdullahi Ango, chairman of APC Jigawa east, confirmed the development at the Eagle Square, venue of the APC special convention, on Tuesday. According to Ango, the […]

A United States (US) drug trial involving cancer patients has reportedly recorded 100 percent success. The patients had rectal cancer, a type of cancer that begins in the rectum, which is the lower end of the large intestine. According to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the trial […]

Kabiru Gaya, senator representing Kano south, says three presidential hopefuls of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have stepped down for Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo. The presidential primary of  the APC is underway at the Eagle Square in Abuja. Gaya, chairman of The Progressive Project (TPP), a coalition of support groups backing Osinbajo for […]

Six journalists were locked up at a federal capital territory (FCT) high court in Abuja on Tuesday. The journalists, who are accredited judiciary correspondents, were locked up in the court against their will for over two hours on the order of Chizoba Orji, judge of the court. Trouble started shortly after the […]

Some delegates from Akwa Ibom, on Tuesday, protested at the special convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja. The primary election, where a presidential candidate of the APC is expected to be elected, is underway at the Eagle Square in the nation’s capital. Delegates who are expected to vote at […]