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Crude oil prices spiked above $93 a barrel on Friday, the highest since October 1, 2014. Brent crude futures, the global oil benchmark, rose more than 2.9 percent to $93.54. Similarly, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures increased 2.5 percent to $92 a barrel. Over the past months, oil prices have […]

Kamorudeen Okiki, president of Agbekoya Worldwide, has asked the government of Benin Republic to release Sunday Adeyemo better known as Sunday Igboho or the group will use a traditional means to free him from detention. Igboho has been in detention in Benin Republic since he was arrested at an airport in Cotonou by […]

In Nigeria’s politics, the north is indispensable – and it has always been. By the contrivance of kismet, the north has always held all the aces as the repository of political power since independence. And I say it is divine. In the 1959 general election, the north showed its strength. The Northern People’s […]

Nigeria recorded 100 cases of COVID-19 on Thursday. Here are five updates about the pandemic this Friday.  Moderna-based vaccine developed by African company Afrigen Biologics, a South African biological company, has developed a COVID-19 vaccine using the publicly available sequence of the Moderna jab and could begin testing in adults by the end […]

The national caretaker committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Thursday, inaugurated party chairpersons for 34 states and the federal capital territory (FCT). TheCable had reported that the party members had converged on the headquarters of the APC in Abuja for the inauguration amid heavy security. Mai Mala Buni, chairman of […]

Bukola Saraki, former senate president, says if he is allowed to lead, Nigerians will “have a greater sense of what it means to be truly Nigerian”. Although there have been calls for the former senate president to contest in the 2023 presidential election, he has not officially declared his intention to run for […]

Rochas Okorocha, senator representing Imo west, says President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to look into the criminal charges preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The commission had, on Monday, filed a 17-count charge against the former Imo governor before a federal high court in Abuja. The charge […]

Nana Akufo-Addo, president of Ghana and chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) authority of heads of state and government, says the 2020 coup in Mali influenced subsequent military takeovers in Africa. Akufo-Addo said this on Thursday, during the ECOWAS extraordinary summit on the political situation in Burkina Faso. […]