Beyond the Headlines
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, OYC, Worldwide, has declared that the political career of Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has been terminated by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. The OYC believes that Wike, whom it described as an Igbo of Ikwerre stock, will be haunted by the killing of residents […]
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has fired the governor of the country’s central bank and replaced him with a former finance minister after a record slump in the lira in recent months raised the spectre of a currency crisis. Murat Uysal was just 16 months into his four-year term at the helm of the central […]
To make video presentation, present expended blank ammunition Lagos, #EndSARS lawyers clash over CCTV footage Court remands protesters, freezes promoters’ accounts till 2021 Don’t embark on new protest, Lagos warns youths. The Nigerian Army has filed papers at the registry of the Lagos State Panel of Judicial Inquiry probing the alleged shooting of #EndSARS protesters […]
The National Emergency Management Agency has said the magnitude of floods in Rivers State this year was beyond what the agency had predicted. The South-South Coordinator of NEMA, Walson Ibarakumo, stated this in an interview with our correspondent in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Ibarakumo said, “In the annual flood outlook that was released, […]
President Donald Trump has warned his Democrat challenger Joe Biden not to “wrongfully claim” the White House as electoral college votes showed the former vice president close to an insurmountable lead. Trump, who has consistently threatened legal proceedings since Tuesday, made this known via Twitter Friday. He wrote, “Joe Biden should not wrongfully claim the […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Friday said the Federal Government was afraid youths might take to the streets in protest against the ongoing industrial action by its members, and thus, was employing blackmail to force lecturers back to class. The ASUU, Akure Zone, however declared that no amount of blackmail would make it […]
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has been asked to put an end to the rampant disrespect to Court judgments, orders and pronouncements by politicians in the country. Sacked local government officials in Imo State made the call while interacting with newsmen in Owerri, the state capital. Deposed elected […]
Not even death could exculpate the late Chairman of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Mr. Franklin Matthew from the ongoing investigation into several allegations of malfeasance culminating in the alleged embezzlement of N118milion from the coffers of the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) chapter of the union. This is also as […]
The federal high court sitting in Abuja has granted the Central Bank of Nigeria’s request to freeze the accounts of 19 individuals and a public affairs company linked to the #EndSARS protests, TheCable can report. A document seen by TheCable showed that the CBN filed the request on October 20, 2020, and the court granted […]
The Pennsylvania Republican Party asked the US Supreme Court Friday to halt the counting of late-arriving ballots in the state, as Democrat Joe Biden took a lead in the tally and was poised to defeat President Donald Trump. If Biden wins Pennsylvania he wins the presidency. The last-ditch appeal for an emergency injunction asked the […]
