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Governor Charles Soludo has promised to begin work immediately, assuring the Anambra people of delivering on his campaign promises. He made the remark during his inaugural address after he, alongside his deputy, Onyeka Ibezim, was sworn into office. “Today is my first day at work.  I just reported for duty at 8:55 am to be […]

Nigerian naira has dropped to N585 against the dollar at the parallel section of the foreign exchange market. The figure represents N4 or 0.7 percent depreciation compared to the N581 it traded last week. Bureaux De Change operators (BDCs), popularly known as ‘abokis’, who spoke to TheCable in Lagos on Wednesday, said the naira exchanges for […]

A cross-section of Awka residents have expressed dismay over the restriction of the public from attending the March 17 inauguration of Prof. Charles Soludo as the next governor of Anambra. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Soludo’s inauguration will take place at SSG Conference hall within Government House, Awka, as against the popular […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday apologised to Nigerians for the inconvenience caused by the prolonged shortage of petroleum products. In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, he said his administration had successfully averted such a problem in its seven years in office. “The administration knows the fuel shortage […]

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has formally informed the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of his intention to run for president in the 2023 general elections. He made his interest known on Tuesday during a meeting with the PDP leaders in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. Atiku, the presidential candidate […]

Some 1.4 million children have now fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on February 24, meaning nearly one child a second has become a refugee, the UN said Tuesday. Fresh numbers from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) showed Tuesday that more than three million people have now fled Ukraine. Nearly half of them […]

The Consumer Price Index rose to 15.7 per cent in February from 15.6 per cent in January, latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics have revealed. The NBS disclosed this in its ‘Consumer Price Index February 2022’ report on Tuesday. According to the NBS, the highest increases were recorded in prices of gas, liquid […]

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, on Monday challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin to a fight, with nothing less than the fate of Ukraine, scene of Moscow’s brutal invasion, at stake. The eccentric billionaire and founder of aerospace company SpaceX took to Twitter, where his messages are notoriously erratic, to see whether the Russian leader […]

Lagos, Abuja, Enugu, and other cities across the country experienced a blackout on Monday following the collapse of the national grid. No fewer than four Distribution Companies (DISCOs) confirmed the development via social media, informing their customers of the situation in their respective domains. They blamed the outage being experienced by consumers in various states […]

A female inmate of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Lagos State Command, Okike Chinyere, has emerged as the best graduating student of the Peace and Conflict Resolution department, National Open University (NOUN). She bagged a second-class upper degree in the course, according to a statement by the correctional service. Aside from her, a male inmate, Alegbe […]

Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has said he is capable of leading Nigeria. He said this during an interview on Channels TV’s Sunday Politics while responding to questions regarding his interest in the 2023 Presidential election. “I believe I have what it takes to lead Nigeria,” Saraki said. “I am not someone who shies away […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied endorsing the South-East for the presidency ahead of the 2023 election. Obasanjo’s rebuttal follows an online report quoting him to have backed the region to produce the next president. According to the report, the former president stated that south-easterners can bring a lot to the table if elected. The […]

A northeastern Chinese city of nine million people was ordered to lockdown on Friday, as authorities scramble to halt a fresh Covid-19 outbreak that has pushed nationwide case counts to their highest in two years. Changchun, the capital of Jilin province and an important industrial base, has ordered residents to work from home. One person […]

India’s military accidentally fired a missile into neighbouring Pakistan, New Delhi’s defence ministry said on Friday, calling it “deeply regrettable”. Hindu-majority India and Muslim Pakistan have fought three wars since independence from British colonial rule in 1947, two of them over the disputed territory of Kashmir. Their shared border has a heavy military presence on […]

Two days to the expiration of the warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the National President of the union, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke says “nothing tangible has been done”. Saturday Punch reports that the union had on Monday, February 14, 2022, declared a total and comprehensive four-week warning strike. The strike, according to the […]

At least 71 children have been killed in Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war on February 24, a Ukrainian parliament official said on Thursday. “From the start of the Russian invasion and up to 11:00 am (0900 GMT) on March 10, 71 children have been killed and more than 100 wounded,” Lyudmyla […]