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Mustapha Bukar, senator representing Katsina north, died on Wednesday, taking the death toll in the current national assembly to nine in roughly three years. The first death was recorded even before the inauguration of the national…

According to reports reaching us, The UK Guardian has released a video of how Cambridge Analytica allegedly sought to influence the 2015 presidential election. In the video, graphically violent images were used to portray President…

According to reports reaching Parrot Nigeria, Many people were left in shock considering how a young student with bright future shamefully took his life because of a lady. The second-year Computer Science student at Chuka University in…

Marvel Studios‘ acclaimed blockbuster movie Black Panther, is currently the 4th highest grossing movie of all time in the North American Box Office and tenth on the worldwide box office. According to Variety, the movie, now in its…

Jerimiah Useni, senator representing Plateau south senatorial district, has declared his intention to contest the 2019 governorship election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Useni made the declaration on…

THE Federal Government has begun the profiling of Non-Governmental organisations (NGOs) with the intention of deregistering those involved in questionable activities. It was learnt that the measure was aimed at curbing money…

OVER breakfast, United States Ambassador to Nigeria Mr. Stuart Symington has urged Chairman of Forte Oil Plc, Mr. Femi Otedola to partner international business to create more jobs for youths. At Otedola’s Ikoyi, Lagos home, the U.S.…

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has approved the disbursement of $1 billion to fight insecurity. The National Economic Council (NEC)  approved the spending last December. Briefing State House correspondents at the end of security…

The opposition party’s candidate, Rtd Brig Julius Madaa Bio of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party  (SLPP) has been declared  the winner  of the March 31 Sierra Leone Presidential run-off election. According  to the result announced by…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will soon commence the prosecution of those listed as “looters” in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by the federal government, TheCable understands. An EFCC official said…

A tragic incident which occurred at Ilasa bus-stop, along the Oshodi-Apapa expressway, Lagos during rush hour, reportedly claimed the lives of 3 people with several others injured after a huge advertising billboard fell on a commercial bus.…

Aisha Ahmad, Edward Adamu, and the two other newly confirmed members of the monetary policy committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria, have voted to retain the record-high benchmark interest rate at 14 percent. According to Godwin…

39-year-old Nasim Aghdam, who stormed YouTube’s California headquarters with a handgun and reportedly shot 3 YouTube employeesbefore killing herself, did so over a personal vendetta. Nasim who is a YouTube addict, was angry with the…

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…