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Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, has narrated how he missed the president’s phone call on Saturday. The presidential aide, who made this known on his Facebook page on Saturday, said Mr. Buhari originated a call to him from his London abode after he had spoken with […]

“A 400 level female student of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, IBBU, Lapai, Niger, state decided to finally put an end to the torture, emotional and academic blackmail suffered by female students in the university for years. A lecturer of English department named Ishaq Yusuf popularly known as I G Yusuf was caught pants down with […]

Jose Mourinho has lent his support to Claudio Ranieri after the Italian was sacked by Leicester. Foxes chiefs decided to wield the axe following a disastrous run of results that left them hovering dangerously above the Premier League drop zone. It comes just nine months after Ranieri defied 5000/1 odds to guide Leicester to the […]

If you’re a Christian who exploits people, leads a double life or manages a “dirty” business, perhaps it’s better not to call yourself a believer, Pope Francis suggested in a homily on Thursday in Rome. “So many Christians are like this, and these people scandalize others,” Francis said during morning Mass at Casa Santa Marta, […]

The Senator representing the Bayelsa East constituency in the Senate, Ben Murray-Bruce, has taken a swipe at President Muhammadu Buhari, saying the allegation that Buhari’s lawyers gave Justice Adeniyi Ademola half a million naira gift has damaged Mr. President. Murray-Bruce also said the N200m allegedly spent by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir […]

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has demanded that the Federal Government listens to him because the money that keeps Nigeria “afloat” comes from the State. Wike made the remark yesterday, during a campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at Okehi, headquarters of Etche Local Government Area of the state, ahead of the re-run […]

Old Trafford boss Jose Mourinho yesterday admitted the United and England captain could leave before the Chinese transfer window closes next Tuesday, in a £52m deal. United’s record goalscorer has a £1million-a-week offer on the table to play in China. Rooney has started just one game in the last nine. He has 18 months left […]

A former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd), has expressed regret that his government could not take steps to combat the menace of sickle cell disease because its enormity was unknown at that time. He also called for genotype education for intending couples in the country, in order to prevent the complications associated with […]

A witness in the corruption trial of Justice Adeniyi Ademola has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari gave the embattled judge N500,000 while his certificate controversy was pending before Mr. Ademola. Some persons had filed a suit challenging Mr. Buhari’s candidacy prior to the 2015 elections, alleging the president had no secondary school certificate as required […]

An elderly woman from California, US, has left her husband after feeling betrayed by his decision to support Donald Trump during the presidential elections. Gayle McCormick, 73, who describes herself as a “Democrat leaning toward socialist”, says that she always knew that her husband of 22 years leaned right politically, but still felt “betrayed” when […]

  A Nigerian economic and social rights group has written to the White House demanding the return of $500 million of stolen funds, which it claims are being held by the US. “(We urge) the administration to attach and release to Nigeria some $500 million worth of US-based proceeds of corruption traced to former Nigerian […]

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara have left the country for London to meet President Muhammadu Buhari, according to Daily Trust. President Buhari is currently on an extended vacation in the United Kingdom for medical tests recommended by his doctors.  

A N125 million building purportedly rented for Senate President Bukola Saraki by the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) could not be traced by TheCable after several searches. And, curiously, nobody is willing to comment on the mystery as all the key players in the affair refused to pick calls or reply SMS from TheCable. The […]

The founder and primate of the Evangelical Church of Yahweh Worldwide, Theophilus Olabayo, has said that time has come for a new president to emerge in Nigeria. In a phone interview with Premium Times on Thursday night, Mr. Olabayo said “a man of destiny is going to take over in another dimension.” “God told me that the […]