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Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu says the club’s transfer activity is an indication they are preparing for life after Lionel Messi. Barca last month confirmed the £65m signing of 21-year-old midfielder Frenkie de Jong…

The acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu, says the posting of Mr Kayode Egbetokun, a former chief security officer to the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to Kwara State as…

Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate in the February 16, 2019 General Elections, Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday in Katsina said  late Major General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, anointed him for the position of Nigeria’s President…

Mr Babatunde Fowler Executive Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) …to share list of defaulters with Police The Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, Mr Tunde Fowler, has said that the Service, in…

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Chief Bayo Adelabu, has said his background in public finance management, experience at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), youthfulness and energy put…

Members and supporters of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State yesterday protested in Ilorin, the state capital, the recent redeployment of Kayode Egbetokun as the police commissioner. They took the peaceful…

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has recovered over N527 billion in two years through the Federal Government’s whistleblowing policy. Its Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, stated this yesterday at a Southsouth…

A body retrieved from the wreckage of a crashed plane in the English Channel has been formally identified as Cardiff City’s Argentina-born football player Emiliano Sala, British police said on Thursday. Sala, 28, had been flying…

ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) last night suspended the three month old strike after signing all agreements with the Federal Government. The agreement was reached at the through end of the conciliatory meeting held…

The mother of superstar footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo has spoken out to defend him against rape allegations after an American teacher Kathryn Mayorga accused him of raping her in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009.  Dolores…

The Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) has said it is still not satisfied with the account rendered by its former presidential candidate Oby Ezekwesili on donations received during her short-lived presidential campaign. The…

Twitter said Thursday profits rose sharply in the fourth quarter, lifted by gains in advertising despite a drop in its global user base. The short-messaging platform said it posted a $255 million profit in the final three months…

Prince Tonye Princewill, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Director of Strategic Communications for the Tonye Cole Campaign, says elections won’t be conducted in Rivers State if APC candidates do not participate. He therefore…

The Social Democratic Party (SDP), on Thursday, adopted the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari, as its consensus candidate ahead of February 16, presidential poll. The party’s…

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Thursday deliver his last state-of-the-nation address ahead of elections in May with his party smarting from corruption allegations. In his address to parliament last year, two…

A Danish court on Thursday sentenced a mother to four years in jail for aggravated abuse for having unnecessarily drawn a half-litre (one pint) of blood from her son weekly for five years. A trained nurse, the 36-year-old woman…

Mrs Opeyemi Akinjobi on Thursday told a Grade C Customary Court at Bode Igbo in Ibadan that her landlady ejected her from her shop for allegedly discussing with the landlady’s  assumed `enemy’. The News Agency of Nigeria reports…

The N2.2bn fraud trial of the immediate past Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, was stalled on Thursday due to the absence of the prosecution’s star witness, Musiliu Obanikoro. The prosecuting counsel for the Economic and…

The Nigerian Communications Commission has announced the temporary suspension of the Do-Not-Disturb facility on mobile networks. In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday, the regulatory commission said that it suspended the…

A former Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Alani Akinrinade (retd.), has asked Nigerians to ignore former President Olusegun Obasanjo, adding that Obasanjo belongs in the dustbin of history. Akinrinade said this in an advertorial that…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has traced a deposit of $30,000 by Joe Agi, a senior advocate, into the bank account of Walter Onnoghen, the embattled chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), TheCable understands. It…

Senate President and national leader of Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), Dr. Bukola Saraki, Wednesday said there is no way Kwara State would bow to Lagos godfathers who are allegedly planning to annex the state in the forthcoming…

Former presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, has retired her campaign funds, accounting for “every penny” spent. The former vice-president of the World Bank, in a detailed…

Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of a Federal High Court Thursday, ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arrest former Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Mr. Ayodele Oke, and his wife,…