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One of the year’s most spectacular startup payoffs isn’t in Silicon Valley or China, it’s in Japan. Mercari Inc.’s $3.7 billion coming-out party will deliver a 149-times return to early investor United Inc., which engineered a 300…

Otunba Adebayo Alao- Akala, a former Governor of Oyo State has predicted a total victory for President Muhammadu Buhari in next year’s presidential election. Alao- Akala, who is a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress…

President Muhammadu Buhari will sign the 2018 budget into law on Wednesday. A presidential source told TheCable that the budget would be signed at 11am. Last week Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president on media and…

Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) danced on the grave of MKO Abiola’s grave for 16 years. In an interview with TheCable in Cambridge on Saturday, the minister said PDP did not…

Mexico’s goal celebration against Germany quite literally triggered a minor earthquake scare as fans’ wild reaction sparked seismic activity in the nation’s capital. Hirving Lozano stunned the Germans by cutting in off the left flank…

Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA), a non-governmental and non-partisan human rights resource centre, has asked the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to probe the extravagant…

Well O Well, the classic insurance scam, claiming your laptop got stolen whilst on holiday abroad, get back home file in a claim with accompanying police report from the country where the laptop got "stolen" then cash in, except that…

Taju was this morning handed over to the Oyo state governor, Abiola Ajimobi at the state house in Ibadan, the state capital The cute Yoruba kid became an instant social media hit the moment his video trying to speak English hit the…

Diego Maradona has apologised for violating ongoing FIFA World Cup non-smoking rules after puffing a cigar during Argentina’s 1-1 draw with Iceland in Moscow. The Argentina icon was seen with the cigar during the game at Spartak…

Forward Nikola Kalinic has reportedly been kicked out of Croatia’s World Cup squad for refusing to play in the side’s 2-0 win over Nigeria on Saturday. According to Croatian media outlet 24sata, Kalinic, a substitute for the match,…

The naira will remain stable at both the official and parallel markets, with the rise in foreign reserves to $48 billion and the consistent dollar interventions by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), analysts have said. Analysts at…

The Federal Government says it will shut down the land border between Nigeria and a neigbouring country in a few days time to avoid smuggling of foreign rice into the country. Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural…

•Chieftains under pressure from supporters over timing, party Plans by members of the nPDP to dump the All Progressives Congress (APC) appears stalled for now, seven days to the crucial national convention of the ruling party.…

A female member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) doing her one-year mandatory service in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State is currently in a critical condition after she was allegedly assaulted and raped by a 15-man gang of robbers who…

Billionaire Bill Gates joins the world of children who celebrated their fathers on the special day yesterday. The Number 2 World’s richest man took to his Instagram page to celebrate his dad, William Henry “Bill” Gates, on Father’s Day.…

In 2013, wealth and financial magazine, Forbes named Banana Island in Lagos as the most expensive neighbourhood and place to live in Nigeria. For many, this did not come as a surprise as Banana Island is largely considered to be on…

Kamil Mahmud, a 26-year-old human resources manager has accused some operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of extortion and threats. Mahmud who had driven behind his brother’s car to the Ikeja area for an interview on a…

The Redeemed Christian Church of God has flagged of a political awareness campaign tagged’ Let My People Vote’ that signaled the beginning of what many described as a revolutionary move by arguably the fastest growing church in the…

This weekend, precisely June 23, stakeholders in Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) will converge on Abuja to elect new national officers who will pilot the affairs of the party for the next four years. From May…

The last may not have been heard about the failed $16 billion National Integrated Power Project as Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), has said his committee may meet the…

The Federal Government has increased the Super Eagles winning bonus by $5,000 as a means of motivating them to win their remaining two group matches at the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Russia. With this increase, each player will now get…

A man has died after his mother’s coffin fell on pallbearers during a funeral in Indonesia. Samen Kondorua died of severe head injuries after the heavy coffin fell on the men carrying it during the ceremony in North Toraja in South Sulawesi…

A former Kaduna State governor, Ahmed Makarfi, says he will contest for Nigeria’s presidency in 2019.Mr Makarfi, immediate past national caretaker committee chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), made the disclosure in an…

The Methodist Archbishop of Abuja, Oche Job, says he admires President Muhammadu Buhari because he is a man that fears no one. The archbishop’s remark was sequel to the recent signing of four bills into laws by Mr Buhari. The…