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The All Progressives Congress (APC) national executive committee (NEC) has vested the party’s national working committee (NWC) with its powers for three months. Within this period, the NWC led by Abdullahi Adamu, APC national chairman, will take decisions on behalf of the party’s NEC. The decision to transfer the NEC’s powers to […]

One thousand, seven hundred and forty-three Nigerians were reported killed in the first quarter of 2022 owing to insecurity, according to the data sourced and analysed by TheCable Index, the data and research arm of TheCable. This will give you a sore head: The figure surpasses the number of civilians reportedly killed in […]

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo are present as the All Progressives Congress (APC) holds its national executive committee (NEC) meeting in the federal capital territory (FCT). The meeting is being held at Transcorp Hotels. The NEC meeting is the first after the election of a new national working committee (NWC) […]

Olasupo Akinola, a 40-year-old Ibadan-based Islamic cleric, has declared his interest to contest for the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Akinola declared his intention, on Monday, while addressing APC members at Community Primary School, Olomi-Academy, Ibadan, Oyo state. The Islamic cleric was quoted by The […]

“I’ve lost my self-confidence and I’ve lost my self-worth. I asked myself why these things were happening to me.” These are the words of Sherifat Abu Ismaila, a resident of Bwari, Abuja, who says she has suffered physical abuse from her husband since they got married in 2009. The 39-year-old mother of three […]

Some gunmen in Niger state have threatened to marry off a 21-year-old woman abducted from a community in the state if her parents do not pay a ransom of N1.7 million. On Saturday evening, an unconfirmed number of people were abducted along Tapila-Gwada road, an area located in Shiroro LGA of Niger. […]

Our attention has been drawn to an article with the title, “Osinbajo’s Problematic Ambition”, being circulated on WhatsApp and attributed to TheCable, Nigeria’s independent online newspaper. While the opinion article, contributed by Gbenga Adefulu, was indeed published by TheCable under “Your Say” section, the name of the author was mischievously removed and replaced […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has advised Nigerians against allowing themselves to be used to promote disunity in the country. The president spoke on Tuesday during an iftar he hosted for governors, ministers and heads of government agencies. According to a statement by Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, Buhari advised Nigerians to “resist agents” who […]

Ali Ndume, senator representing Borno south district, says the decision of Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, to contest the presidency is his “project”. On April 9, Amaechi declared his intention to run for president in the 2023 general election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The minister of transportation […]