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The House of Representatives on Tuesday raised an alarm over the rising spate of insecurity in Nigeria. The parliament lamented the killings, kidnappings, banditry, insurgency, armed robbery and armed herdsmen on the rampage across the country. The House stated that it is time to raise its voice on insecurity as the challenge cannot be painted […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says “harder times’’ await bandits whose disruptive activities have brought sorrow to Nigerians, kept many away from their means of livelihood, and heightened insecurity in parts of the country. The President stated this when he received a delegation of Eminent and Respected Citizens of Niger State led by Governor Abubakar Sani Bello […]

The Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday sentenced Mrs Damilola Adeyeri and her son, Alaba Adeyeri, to three years’ imprisonment for defrauding an American to the tune of $82,570. Justice C.J. Aneke convicted the mother and son of the four counts bordering on “fraudulent trick business email compromise” filed against them by the Economic […]

Seven doctors and five nurses have been quarantined at the Federal Medical Centre, Yola, Adamawa state, following their contact with a patient diagnosed with Lassa fever. A source at the hospital told TheCable on Monday that a pregnant woman who lost her fetus was the primary contact. She said the woman was admitted at the […]

Health officials are dealing with a suspected case of coronavirus in Ivory Coast, the country’s health ministry has announced. An unnamed student, who returned to the West African country from Beijing on Saturday, is undergoing further tests after showing flu-like symptoms. If confirmed, it will be the first case of the deadly virus in Africa. […]

The federal government says the speculated plan by the U.S. to add Nigeria to its existing list of visa travel ban countries is ill conceived. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, stated this on Monday in London during an interview session with Reuters News Agency. The minister is in London to officially engage […]

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, says Nigerians ought to be thankful that the spate of attacks by Boko Haram has dropped. He said despite the recent bombings that have claimed scores of lives, the impact of terrorism was still less than what Nigerians faced under former President […]

Former US First Lady and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has returned to the political stage at the Sundance film festival with a vow to work to defeat her Republican antagonist Donald Trump in November. “Hillary,” a documentary about the former Democratic standard-bearer, was screened at the prestigious festival Saturday ahead of its world premiere. […]

Edward Kallon, the United Nations (UN) resident and humanitarian coordinator in Nigeria, says the Nigerian government should find a political solution to the Boko Haram insurgency. Kallon said this on Friday at a press briefing to conclude the visit of Janez Lenarcic, European Union (EU) commissioner for crisis management, to Nigeria. Kallon said the UN […]

The Nigeria Immigration Service and Port Health Services have expressed fears over the outbreak of Coronavirus in China. The deadly disease, which broke out in  the Asian nation  sometime last month, has spread to eight countries including United States and Singapore, with over 800 people  infected and 30 killed in the past few weeks. Immigration […]

At least 19 people died and more than 600 were injured in eastern Turkey after an earthquake rattled the region on Friday evening, according to authorities. The 6.7-magnitude quake struck near the town of Sivrice, in eastern Elazig province, collapsing at least 10 buildings, Turkish Interior Minister Sulyman Soylu said. Thirteen people were killed in […]

A second case of Wuhan coronavirus in the United States has been identified in Chicago, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday in a press briefing. The patient is a Chicago resident in her 60s. She is in isolation at a hospital in Chicago, and is in stable condition. The patient flew […]

Nigeria has dropped on Transparency International‘s yearly corruption perception ranking, moving two places down to rank the world’s 34th most corrupt nation. In the 2019 Transparency International’s corruption perception index released on Thursday, Nigeria scored 26 out of 100 points, falling by one point compared to 2018. In the country comparison, Nigeria ranks this year 146 […]

The federal government and the governors of the six South-west states have agreed on how Amotekun, the new security outfit set up by the region, should proceed, Vice President Yemi Osinabjo said Thursday. Mr Osinbajo met in Abuja on Thursday with the six South-west governors, alongside Attorney-General Abubakar Malami and the Inspector General of Police, […]

A deadly virus outbreak that has prompted China to lock down some 20 million people does not yet constitute an international public health emergency, the World Health Organization determined Thursday. “I am not declaring a public health emergency of international concern today,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters after a two-day emergency meeting in […]

Following the Monday’s beheading of the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa state, Rev. Lawan Andimi, the national body of CAN has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the heads of all the security agencies in the country. The CAN President, Dr. Samson Ayokunle, told […]