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Barely a week after the death of a member representing Lokoja/Kogi/Koton Karfe, Umar Buba Jibril, another Nigerian lawmaker, Senator Mustapha Bukar, has died. On March 17, a senator representing Bauchi South, Ali Wakili, died at the…

Bayero University, Kano, is working towards the establishment of a community radio and television stations, says Mohammad Yahuza Bello, the institution’s vice-chancellor. According to Guardian, Bello made the disclosure at the 34th…

The police have arrested six persons for allegedly aiding the escape of six suspects from police custody in Division ‘A’ Lokoja, Kogi State, on Wednesday, last week. Those arrested include John Beneche, 22, Seye Atowoju, 27, Danjuma…

The Nigerian Embassy in Washington DC has said that the recent disengagement of some workers at the embassy followed due process. Senior officials at the embassy said that the benefits of the 15 local workers, who were recently laid…

Tragedy struck in Abia on Tuesday as two women died in an auto crash involving the motorcade of Nkechi Ikpeazu, wife of Abia governor. One of the dead women was identified as Promise Uche-Nwamkpa, wife of a former member of the Abia…

Stella Oduah, senator representing Anambra north, says she has never taken illegal proceeds from government coffers. Oduah said this in a statement on Tuesday while reacting to her inclusion in the federal government’s looters list.…

The embattled Oluwo of Iwoland, Abdulrasheed Akanbi, has said that God is using those against his lifestyle (swag) to make him popular, insisting that he has the right as a king to bear the tag ’emir’ and other kingship titles in…

Olabiyi Durojaiye, the chairman of the board of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), is working very hard to shift the goalposts and force the sale of 9mobile to Smile Telecoms Holdings, TheCable can report. The troubled…

The embattled  former National Security Adviser, currently in detention, Sambo Dasuki, was a financier and facilitator of the 1983 military coup which terminated Nigeria’s Second Republic and installed Muhammadu Buhari as Head of State.…

The government of Switzerland has blocked several bank accounts in the country linked to the planned bribery trial of Eni and Shell executives in Milan, Italy, as it relates to the infamous Malabu oil scam. On Monday, the office of…

Lagos State Police Command said yesterday it recovered 188 guns and 280 ammunition between September and last weekend. Police Commissioner Imohimi Edgal, who spoke at a news briefing in Ikeja, said among the weapons were those…

•Anyaoku, Tinubu, Ukiwe eulogise statesman at 90 Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who has been campaigning against President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election, has been described as a failure by elder statesman Chief Ayo Adebanjo.…

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State fell off while alighting from his official car last Friday and injured his left foot, a statement from the Kogi State Government House, Lokoja, said on Tuesday. The statement signed by Mr Kingsley…

The Alake of Egbaland, Adedotun Gbadebo, says President Muhammadu Buhari deserves to be re-elected to enable him consolidate on the policies and programmes he has initiated to transform the country. Mr Gbadebo stated this when a…

A 13-year-old son of a policeman is suspected to have hanged himself in Gombe, the police said on Tuesday. Mary Malum, police public relations officer in Gombe state, said the boy identified as Muhammadu Al-amin, was found hanging in…

The Nigeria Police Force says it will arraign Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west, at the federal high court in Lokoja, Kogi state capital, on May 10. Also to be arraigned alongside the lawmaker are the four suspects…

Some gunmen on Tuesday invaded the police station at Gegu village on Lokoja–Abuja road, killing two of the policemen on duty. William Aya, spokesman of the Kogi state police command, confirmed this to TheCable. “It is true that…

A member of the National Executive Committee, NEC, of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Alhaji Nasiru Danu has asked Nigerians to continue to support President Muhammadu Buhari saying the statements credited to former President…

Nigerian Lawyer, Festus Keyamo has reacted to reports of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo berating President Buhari who he called a failure and further warned Nigerians not to elect in 2019 election. In series of tweets. Festus Keyamo…

President Muhammadu Buhari will be returning to the United Kingdom but this time around for his annual vacation. Last year, Buhari spent up to 154 days in the UK treating an undisclosed ailment. He returned to the country on…

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it seized 174,015 litres of smuggled petroleum products worth N27, 755,492 in one year. Seme, the border town between Nigeria and Republic Benin notorious for smuggling, is the preferred choice…

MOPED thugs are snatching tens of thousands of phones on UK streets to supply a booming black market run by crime lords in Nigeria. The mobiles, seized by acid-armed yobs, are shipped 4,500 miles to be sold for up to £560 to…

The body of young man was found hanging on a tree this evening at Efab Junction, Lokogoma, Abuja. The deceased who reportedly pulled off his clothes before hanging himself, according to online sources did it out of frustration. It was…

A former Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu,  and the lawmaker representing Delta North Senatorial District, Peter Nwaboshi,  have faulted the  fresh looters’ list released by the Federal Government on Sunday. Aliyu, in a…