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Award-winning author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in a scathing open letter published on her verified X handle, has slammed Minister of Works and former Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, over his recent comment on South East presidency. Umahi had in his recent remarks, stated that it was not yet the South East’s turn for presidency, “when it’s our turn, nobody will …

The Nigeria Police Force has announced the theft of one of its official vehicles, a Toyota Buffalo Land Cruiser, from the premises of the Force Headquarters in Abuja. According to an internal wireless message from the Commissioner of Police (DFA, Katsina Command) relaying information from the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), the vehicle, with chassis number JTELU71JX0B027126 and registration number …

China’s former agricultural minister was sentenced to death on Sunday on corruption charges, with a two-year reprieve, a court statement said. Tang Renjian accepted cash and property bribes totalling more than 268 million yuan ($38 million) between 2007 and 2024, the People’s Court of Changchun in northeast Jilin province said in a statement. The court ruled that the bribes “caused …

A top member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State, Seyi Olorunsola, says the party can win the 2027 elections for President Bola Tinubu, its governorship candidate, and all APC candidates in the state without the involvement of Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. Speaking at a press conference in Kano on Sunday, Olorunsola, who is the Convener of the …

The Federal Government strongly condemns and categorically refutes recent allegations by certain international platforms and online influencers suggesting that terrorists operating in Nigeria were engaged in a systematic genocide against Christians. Such claims are false, baseless, despicable, and divisive. Portraying Nigeria’s security challenges as a targeted campaign against a single religious group is a gross misrepresentation of reality. *While Nigeria, …

An unpublicised send-forth dinner was held in honour of Mahmood Yakubu, professor of history and chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), at the Continental Hotel in Abuja on June 15, TheCable can report. This was in preparation for his disengagement as the country’s top electoral chief after serving an unprecedented two terms in office. Yakubu had also cleared …

The noise from the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) threatening to picket and disrupt operations at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals is not about protecting workers. It is about protecting a decayed order that once held Nigeria hostage. Their claim of 800 unjustly sacked workers collapses under the refinery’s explanation that those dismissed were saboteurs, …

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has assured that normalcy will return to the industry if Dangote Refinery recalls the workers it sacked. The union is currently on an indefinite strike in protest against the dismissal of some employees at the Dangote Refinery in Lagos. According to the union’s General Secretary, Lumumba Okugbawa, the strike …

The Federal Government has called on the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, to reconsider its proposed strike scheduled to begin today over its dispute with Dangote Refinery. Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammad Dingyadi, made the appeal on Sunday in a statement, stressing that the Ministry had taken steps to bring both parties to a …

A human rights lawyer, Mr Christopher Chidera, has expressed profound concern over a recent ruling by Justice James Kolawole Omotosho, of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Nnamdi Kanu’s lingering trial. On Friday that Justice Omotosho, had in a ruling on terrorism charges against Kanu declared that Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has …