Beyond the Headlines
The Federal Government, on Tuesday, stated that it had directed the salaries committee to review payroll and also review the number of its agencies. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this in Abuja at the ongoing National Policy Dialogue on Corruption and Cost of Governance in Nigeria, organised by the […]
Prominent Nigerian publisher Omoyele Sowore and a well-known Nigerian human rights activist, Wednesday called for the passing of ‘Vote of No Confidence’ on President Muhammadu Buhari over his “abysmal performance in Office”. The strong critic of the Buhari administration and of Nigeria’s political economy in general, took to his Twitter page to plead with other […]
A jihadist attack on a village in eastern Burkina Faso this week killed 25 people, while 11 assailants were “neutralised,” according to an official provisional toll released on Wednesday. Two of the 25 were members of the Volunteers for the Defence of the Motherland (VDP), an anti-jihadist civilian defence force, Communications Minister Ousseni Tamboura said […]
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has said that over 1, 200 out of the 1, 844 inmates, who escaped from the Owerri custodial centre following the April 5 attack on the facility by gunmen, are still at large. The Public Relations Officer of the centre, Goodluck Uboegbulam, told our correspondent in an interview that only […]
An 80-year-old woman, Mrs Mary Adebayo, her 19-year-old granddaughter, Funmilola Adebayo and two other ladies have been arrested in Akure, Ondo State by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), for allegedly selling assorted illicit drugs including cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, tramadol, swinol and skuchies. They were apprehended following intelligence-based raids and follow up […]
Efforts to facilitate the release of the remaining 29 abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna state, have suffered a setback. TheCable understands that the comment of one of the parents during a protest at the national assembly on Tuesday has created problems for the negotiation process. The parent had said […]
Ibe Pascal Arogorn, Owerri The indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) has shifted the date to mark Biafra day from May 30 to May 31. The secessionist group earlier announced May 30 for the annual Biafra day celebration. IPOB spokesperson, mma Powerful in a statement said, “We, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by […]
One of the parents of the kidnapped students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, Kaduna State, has narrated how parents of the abductees paid N800,000 to a certain “Fulani man” they were linked to by Shikh Gumi, in their bid to secure the release of their children. The woman made the disclosure on […]
The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has said former President Goodluck Jonathan almost put him in prison because he thought he was a threat to his second term ambition. El-Rufai, in an interview published in The Point , said although Jonathan was his very close friend from when he was the deputy governor of Bayelsa […]
An Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi, on Tuesday urged government not to take the threat by the kidnappers of students of Greenfield University, Kaduna lightly. Gumi, who stated this in an interview with The PUNCH , said the Central Bank of Nigeria should pay the N100m ransom being demanded by the kidnappers of the students. […]
