The federal government has charged Omoyele Sowore to court for "conspiracy to commit treason" and "insulting" President Muhammadu Buhari. In the suit dated September 19 and filed at the federal high court in Abuja, the government accused Sowore of granting an interview which purpose caused insult on the person of the president of the country.Olawale Bakare is also listed with Sowore [...]
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Hafez Ghanem, World Bank's vice-president for Africa, says the lender is in talks with the Nigerian government for a $2.5 billion concessionary loan.Ghanem made this known in an interview on Wednesday in Abuja.The Bretton Wood institution official said Nigeria received $2.4 billion from the bank in 2018."We’re talking about a new set of programmes of about the same amount, it [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari has constituted an economic advisory council to replace the current economic management team headed by Yemi Osinbajo, the vice president.According to a statement signed by Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president on media and publicity, the team will report directly to the president.Doyin Salami, a senior lecturer at the Lagos Business School and former member of [...]
Children reportedly detained by the Nigerian military in recent years have recounted how the security agencies kept them in horrible condition.In a recent report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW), the children spoke of how they were maltreated and some of their peers lost their lives.The report, a copy of which was obtained by TheCable, detailed how about 3,600 of [...]
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Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, says Nigerians will not become second-class citizens elsewhere if the country is what it ought to be.Speaking at the "Naija Youth Talk" programme organised by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Abuja on Monday, Adesina said while it is the right of citizens to demand for the kind of country they want, it is pertinent to [...]
Between 1999 and 2001, Hazel Francis Ngubeni who served as South African’s high commissioner to Singapore, served a jail sentence in the US. According to Sunday Times, a South African newspaper, Ngubeni waas convicted for smuggling a bag of cocaine while working as a cabin attendant for South African Airways.The newspaper reported Ngubeni, 55, who at the time went by the name [...]
Air Peace has postponed its plan to evacuate Nigerians willing to return from South Africa over the xenophobic attacks in the country.On Wednesday, Ferdinand Nwonye, spokesman of the ministry of foreign affairs, had announced the plan of the airline to evacuate Nigerians who wish to return to Nigeria “free of charge.”But in a statement on Friday, Allen Onyema, chairman of [...]
Nigeria has pulled out of the ongoing World Economic Forum in Cape Town, South Africa, over fresh xenophobic attacks.The country has also recalled Kabiru Bala, its high commissioner to South Africa, according to a presidential source.The source said the decisions were taken at a meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and Geoffrey Onyeama, minister of foreign affairs, at [...]
The federal government has summoned Bobby Monroe, South Africa's high commissioner to Nigeria, over the recent xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in that country.The ministry of foreign affairs disclosed this in a message on Tuesday.''I am directed to inform you that the Minister of Foreign Affairs has summoned the High Commissioner of South Africa for a meeting this morning by 11. [...]
Asari Dokubo, leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Salvation Force (NDPSF), has accused Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, of lying about the demolition of a mosque in the state. Asari said he and his family worship at the mosque located at Trans-Amadi in Port Harcourt, and that the property was legally acquired.The governor had denied demolishing the mosque, saying there was [...]
Chika Odionyenma, one of the persons on FBI's 77-man list of suspected Nigerian fraudsters, was appointed into the inauguration committee of Emeka Ihedioha, governor of Imo state.There have been reactions since Thursday when the agency disclosed that many Nigerians were under investigation in connection with one of the largest scams in US history.Videos of some of the suspects spraying dollars [...]
Agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) raided the residence of Akinwunmi Ambode, former governor of Lagos state, in Epe area of the state, on Tuesday.Tony Orilade, EFCC spokesman, confirmed this to TheCable.He said the anti-graft agency had received petitions against Ambode, and that it was investigating his administration.''Yes, we received petitions regarding the governor, and we are [...]
The police have sealed off the venue of a symposium where Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, and other speakers where to address the state of insecurity in the country.The programme organised by a group known as Coalition for Revolution (CORE) was billed to hold at 46, Ibijoke street, Oluyole bus-stop, Oregun, Lagos.Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, Affiong Affiong, a lawyer, and Femi Aborishade, [...]
The federal government says Ibraheem el-Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), wanted to check into a five-star hotel in India rather than a hospital.A high court in Kaduna had granted him medical leave after he sought it on health grounds.Alongside Zeenat, his wife, family members and security operatives, the IMN leader left the country on Monday evening.But [...]
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