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FBI agents have issued a warning about a new scam that targets instant messaging apps, including Facebook Messenger. The scam attempts to trick users into opening a malicious link that harvests their personal data and login credentials for social networks, like Facebook. In a bid to coerce people into opening the suspicious URL, cyber criminals […]

Global body in charge of security, United Nations Security Council, says it is worried over what it described as continued tensions linked to disputed electoral processes, social and economic difficulties, and conflicts between farmers and herders in the Lake Chad Basin. Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad are members of the Lake Chad Basin on which the […]

Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, has challenged former President Olusegun Obasanjo to swear that he never awarded oil blocks in return for sexual gratification while he presided over the affairs of Nigeria. Soyinka spoke in his Interventions VIII series, titled: ‘Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?’ meaning “Gani’s Unfinished Business,” launched recently in Lagos, south-west Nigeria. He said Obasanjo […]

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has berated gospel preachers for failing to preach against the corruption. Speaking at the 30th National Biennial Conference of the Students Christian Movement of Nigeria holding in Enugu, Osinbajo noted that preachers were preoccupied with preaching prosperity rather than righteousness. “Very rarely do you hear our preachers talk about corruption from […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president, have raised the alarm over the alleged plan of the federal government to incarcerate them. In a statement on Friday, Yusuph Olaniyonu and Uche Anichukwu, their media aides, the legislators said this is part of the plot to remove them from office. The All Progressives Congress […]

The sacked Director General of the Department of State Security Service, Lawal Musa Daura, has confessed that he deployed hooded operatives of the secret service to the National Assembly on Tuesday based on intelligence report that unauthorised persons were planning to smuggle dangerous weapons and incriminating items into the complex. His confession was disclosed in […]

No fewer than 21,476 Nigerians have overstayed their visas to the United States within the last one year, Per second news media reports on Thursday. It said that information it gathered from Washington indicated that those who overstayed include students, workers and tourists, with increase in numbers of those that has refused to return to […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki met with chairmen of “45 political parties” yesterday. The nation’s number three citizen disclosed this in a tweet on Thursday. The purpose of the meeting is not known but it comes 24 hours after the senate president visited ex-military President Ibrahim Babangida in Niger state. Saraki avoided journalists when he left IBB’s Minna, […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki says he cannot “descend into the gutter” with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The senate president said this in response to the harsh comments Yekini Nabena, spokesman of APC, made about him. In a statement issued earlier, Nabena described Saraki as a failure who swims in controversy. He said having publicly […]

Suspected members of the Boko Haram sect invaded a military base in Malamfatori area of Abadam local government, Borno state, on Wednesday, killing 11 soldiers. A security source who disclosed this to TheCable said some civilians were also killed in the attack. Adamu Bamanga, a member of civilian joint task force, who escaped the attack, […]

China appears to be backpedaling on its decades-long policies to limit population growth as it attempts to address a demographic time bomb. The one child policy ran until 2015 when it was partially relaxed to allow some couples to have two children, but families have been slow to embrace official approval to expand. An op-ed […]

The men of the Department of State Security (DSS) that blocked the National Assembly gate on Tuesday to prevent lawmakers from entry had a list of APC senators that they planned to allow into the premises, Senate President Bukola Saraki has said. Saraki said in Abuja on Wednesday that the APC senators were not around […]

The Presidency today said there was unanimity on the sack of the Director General of the Department of State Service (DSS), Lawal Daura. Daura was booted out of office on Tuesday by the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo following the invasion of the National Assembly by the operatives of the DSS.  The invasion, according the acting […]

A national leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has alleged that some members of the National Assembly were planning to remove President Muhammadu Buhari. But he warned the plotters to drop their sinister move because it is not “possible for a lizard to wrestle an antelope’’. Tinubu spoke on Wednesday at the formal […]

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over the National Assembly invasion by security forces. Secondus in a statement by his Media Aide, Ike Abonyi, on Tuesday said the invasion was an indication that President Buhari and the ruling APC were out to […]

The senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, has finally condemned the unlawful invasion of the national assembly premises by the men of State Security Service, DSS. Many Nigerians including the former President Atiku Abubakar have equally faulted the act. The opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has equally suffixed their voice in condemning the action too. Recall […]

The British High Commission has reacted to Tuesday’s development at the National Assembly, saying it would only accept a democratic process that recognises the rights of Nigerians to participate in election process. “We are aware of media reports of a situation at the National Assembly this morning. We are closely monitoring the situation and other […]

Lawal Daura, director-general of the Department of State Services (DSS) has been  arrested. He was arrested after Acting President Yemi Osinbajo relieved him of his duties on Tuesday afternoon. Osinbajo had summoned Daura alongside Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of police, over the siege laid to the national assembly earlier in the day. Federal lawmakers were denied […]