Beyond the Headlines
Three hoodlums and two police officers have died in separate attacks on Sunday night and early hours of Monday in Imo and Anambra States. Police operatives in Imo state on Sunday night repelled an attack on Njaba Divisional Headquarters by hoodlums suspected to be affiliated with the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Njaba police […]
Authorities in the United Kingdom (UK) are investigating a Metropolitan police officer seen in a video advising a group of Nigerian women not to report their abusive husbands. The footage, said to have been recorded six years ago, has resurfaced on social media. The UK Mirror said the video captured in 2018 at Divine Restoration […]
Politician and presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has reacted to an alleged misinterpretation of his recent television interview, claiming that some fifth columnists had resorted to propaganda, deliberately distorting the narrative. In a series of posts via his official X handle on Saturday, Obi denied saying he […]
The student community at Ekosodin, Edo State was thrown into panic on Saturday morning when a storey building on Ekhator Street, Benin, the state capital, collapsed during the early morning downpour in the state. Ekosodin borders the University of Benin and has a huge student population as those who cannot get accommodation in the school […]
Five people have reportedly died in an accident that involved the campaign convoy of Monday Okpebholo, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Edo. TheCable understands that the accident occurred on Thursday at Warrake road in Uzebba of Owan west LGA, Edo state. It was learnt that one of the vehicles in Okpebholo’s […]
The Federal Government has announced that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited will be the sole buyer of Premium Motors Spirit from Dangote Refinery. It also noted that interested marketers would have to buy the product from the national oil firm through its trading company. This was part of the agreement reached with the management […]
Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), says he will not again support Siminalayi Fubara, governor of Rivers. Wike spoke on Friday during an interview on Channels Television. “I will never support Fubara again in my political life. I won’t do that. Everyone knows me,” he said. Wike said he laboured and sacrificed […]
Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), says Indonesia has freed a Nigerian who had been sentenced to death for drug trafficking. In a statement issued on Friday, Dabiri-Erewa identified the Nigerian as Emmanuel Ihejirika, who had spent several years in prison. Dabiri-Erewa said Ihejirika regained his freedom […]
The Presidential Committee on the Sale of crude oil and Refined Product has announced that loading of the first batch of petrol from the Dangote Refinery will commence on Sunday, September 15. A member of the committee and Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Zacch Adedeji, disclosed this in Abuja on Friday. Briefing […]
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has insisted that no member of the Peoples Democratic Party can refer to him as an outsider, or as a mole engaging in anti-party activities. The minister dared party chieftains, governors and members of the party to go on national television to defend the allegation that […]
