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Jimoh Moshood, public relations officer of the Nigeria Police Force, has blamed the industrial action in Borno state on the delay in the passage of 2018 budget. Responding to inquiries by TheCable, Moshood said the allowances of the…

Borno State Police Commissioner Damian Chukwu said he is making frantic efforts to pacify the aggrieved policemen who embarked on an early morning protest in Maiduguri, Borno State capital over unpaid allowances. According to Mr.…

An Abuja Division of the Federal High Court (FHC) has again granted a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, bail with a bond of N100 million. Mr Dasuki was arrested by operatives of the State Security Service in December…

Another round of crisis is brewing in Nigeria football following the directive on Monday by the federal government through the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development that Amaju Pinnick should step down from his position as NFF…

THE plan by the opposition parties to form a grand alliance to challenge the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), which is certain to present President Muhammadu Buhari as its standard-bearer in the 2019 election, is finally taking…

A Nigerian Edafe Okporo, 28, has shared his story with Yahoo news. The 28-year old who fled to the U.S after his life was endangered due to being a homosexual, opened up on all he had to pass through while he was living in Nigeria.…

There is confusion in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, as police officers deployed to the state on special duty took to the streets, barricading the highway to protest six months of unpaid allowances. The police officers were said…

A former deputy national chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Olabode George, on Sunday said he is happy to have resolved his differences with a former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasano.…

General Overseer of Freedom For all Nations Outreach (FANO) Prophet Samuel Akinbodunse‎ has warned President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election. According to him, the president will die if he campaigns. The cleric said this…

The Ogun state police command have arrested Kayode Oshiyemi, a lawyer, for attempting to extort N250 million from a businessman, Shakirudeen Olufowobi. Spokesperson of the state police command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who paraded the…

President Muhammadu Buhari and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of economy, were pictured together at the 31st session of the African Union (AU) summit on Sunday. The duo was pictured warmly conversing at the ongoing summit in…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will commence systematic hardware and software upgrade of all its smart card readers nationwide by next week. The commission disclosed this through Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, its…

Suleiman Abba, a former inspector-general of police, says not all states can afford to maintain state police. He said there was nothing wrong in establishing state police when such states could maintain them, adding that police all…

•COTRIMCO says 1,479 graft related cases pending in courts nationwide THE Corruption and Financial Crime Cases Trial Monitoring Committee (COTRIMCO) has said 324 judgments were delivered within the last six months by courts…

•‘Shekau is alive’ •I can make Shekau, others surrender Former Boko Haram Commander, Rawana Goni (32), has appealed to the military to allow him call the elusive leader, Abubakar Shekau, and about 137 others, to make them…

Bank debtors who are owing N5.4 trillion are set to lose their assets. They have failed to honour their promises to pay, the Assets Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON) said yesterday. AMCON Managing Director and Chief Executive…

THE Progressive Youth Caucus (PYC), a coalition of youth groups in the All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to act fast in ending killings. Prompt action aimed at halting the killings, the group…

Cristiano Ronaldo has allegedly rejected a big-money offer to stay at Real Madrid. The Portugal international has turned down a contract worth £26.7m from Los Blancos, according to Tuttosport. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner’s…

About 7,000 trucks ply the Apapa Wharf Road on a daily basis and only about 2,500 of them have genuine business at the ports, according to the report of a recent survey. The survey, which was conducted by the Nigerian Shippers’ Council,…

Nigeria’s former Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili, on Saturday revealed that she returned to Nigeria from Harvard University to fix the economic problem of the country. Speaking at the launch of the Red Card Movement in Lagos,…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has distributed non-sensitive electoral materials across the sixteen local government areas ahead of the July 14 governorship election. The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC),…

The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) appears to be set for a long drawn battle with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over alleged non-remittance of N20billion to the federation account by the corporation.…

Rabiu Kwankwaso, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress who is increasingly becoming estranged from the ruling party, has said President Muhammadu Buhari will be defeated in 2019. He identified the Peoples Democratic Party as…

The Central Bank of Nigeria on Saturday directed all commercial banks to resolve disputes arising from use of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) channel within three days. Dipo Fatokun, CBN’s Director, Banking and…