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A Federal High Court in Abuja has sacked Rep Abubakar Gummi, for defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to All Progressives Congress (APC)., Justice Obiora Egwuatu, in a judgment, restrained the Speaker, House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, from further recognising Gummi as member representing Gummi/ Bukkuyum Federal Constituency. Justice Egwuatu also made an order directing the Independent National Electoral …

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday declined to grant an application filed by former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido, seeking to stop the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from proceeding with its scheduled National Convention slated for November 15 and 16, 2025, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The convention is meant to elect new national officers to …

Britain’s King Charles has stripped his younger brother Andrew of his title of prince and forced him out of his Windsor home, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday, seeking to distance the royals from him over his links to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Andrew, 65, the younger brother of Charles and second son of the late Queen Elizabeth, has come under …

Nigerian filmmaker and activist, J. C. Okechukwu, has accused international broadcaster CNN of hypocrisy and bias against former President Goodluck Jonathan, alleging that the network deliberately undermined his administration while ignoring worsening insecurity, killings of Christians under Bola Tinubu’s government. In a post shared on his official X account on Thursday, Okechukwu said CNN was “on the ground in the …

Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter.. I am hereby making Nigeria a “COUNTRY OF PARTICULAR CONCERN” — But that is the least of it. When Christians, or any such group, is slaughtered like is happening in Nigeria (3,100 versus 4,476 Worldwide), something must be …

Fresh facts have emerged in the sudden illness of Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, who reportedly took ill suddenly on the eve of his scheduled trip to Washington, D.C., for the World Bank Fall Meetings. According to multiple sources familiar with the development, Edun’s collapse was not due to a medical condition alone but allegedly linked to a shocking …

A.Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) not to go ahead with its convention scheduled for Ibadan, Oyo State capital, next month. Justice James Omotosho gave the order on Friday The suit was filed by Austin Nwachukwu (Imo PDP Chairman), Amah Nnanna (Abia PDP chairman) and Turnah Alabh George (PDP Zonal Secretary, South-South) praying the …

Two military officers are on the run after they were named among those who allegedly plotted a coup to terminate Nigeria’s democracy, TheCable understands. The military authorities have continued to make arrests after preliminary interrogating 16 of the suspects who were seized in the first week of October over the botched plot. TheCable understands that 18 officers were to be …

Barely 24 hours after assuming office, the new Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sunday Kelvin Aneke, has carried out a sweeping shake-up in the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), redeploying several senior officers across commands and units nationwide. The restructuring — coming swiftly after President Bola Tinubu’s charge to service chiefs to deliver on national security reforms and institutional accountability …

Almost 100,000 fighting-age men have fled Ukraine in the last two months after President Volodymyr Zelensky relaxed the rules to allow young men to leave the country. Poland’s border guard said 99,000 Ukrainian men aged 18 to 22 have crossed the border since August. The new rules mean men between the ages of 18 and 22 are no longer barred …