A would-be teenage suicide bomber has said Boko Haram militants paid her just 200 naira ($0.64) to blow herself up in a city in northeast Nigeria. In footage obtained by Sky News, the 14-year-old girl said the militants had told her and a friend to detonate their explosive vests in a “crowded place” in Maiduguri,…
Several people are believed to have died and many others injured in an ethnic clash in Ile-Ife, Osun State. Properties worth millions of Naira were also destroyed in the violence described by residents as a clash between Yorubas and Hausas which reportedly started in Sabo area of the ancient town. The crisis was said to…
Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson has described the wife of Nigeria’s late former Head of State, Mrs. Maryam Abacha as a courageous, peaceful and loving woman. Governor Dickson stated this in a congratulatory message to Mrs. Abacha, who turned 70 on March 4, 2017. He recalled with satisfaction, the events that led to…
The travel advisory issued on Monday by Abike Dabiri-Erewa asking Nigerians to postpone their trips to the US has sparked off a diplomatic row between the two countries, TheCable understands. Dabiri-Erewa, the senior special assistant to the president on foreign affairs and diaspora, had alleged that the US authorities were cancelling the visas of Nigerians…
The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees [BOT], Walid Jubril, says the party’s leaders are ready to visit and sympathise with President Muhammadu Buhari in London. “If we are to be given the opportunity, the PDP leaders will even go to London to wish him well and sympathise with his family,”…
The only Nigerian Senator elected on the platform of the Labour Party, Ovie Omo-Agege, has decamped to the ruling All Progressives Congress. Mr. Omo-Agege, representing Delta Central, announced his defection on Tuesday, citing leadership crisis in LP. Mr. Omo-Agege, a native Urhobo, had openly romanced with the APC caucus before his formal defection today, Tuesday….
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has sworn in Walter Onnoghen as the 17th Chief Justice of Nigeria. The swearing-in ceremony was conducted Tuesday inside the council chambers of Aso Rock presidential villa, Abuja. Mr. Osinbajo said President Muhammadu Buhari had asked him to let the new CJN know that he was assuming office at a time…
Governor of Bayelsa State, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson has on behalf of the Government and the people of the State felicitated with his amiable, hard working and dependable ally in the restoration government, Retired Rear Admiral Gboriobigha John Jonah, Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, on the occasion of his 63rd birthday anniversary. In a congratulatory…
A High Court in Yola, Adamawa State, has convicted and jailed former Gov. Bala James Ngilari for failing to adhere to the procurement laws of the state. In a 75-minute long ruling, Justice Nathan Musa found the former governor guilty of four charges, and discharged him on one, which bordered on conspiracy. The judge discharged…
Nigerian pirates have released seven Russian and one Ukrainian sailors after they were captured last month on the cargo ship the BBC Caribbean, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday, citing a human rights activist in Crimea. The sailors were released after talks between the owners of the ship and pirates. Interfax news agency quoted human…
