President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the nomination of Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, former coordinating minister for the economy, for the position of director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), TheCable can report. In a document seen […]
Zikrullah Kunle Hassan, chairman and chief executive officer of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), says Saudi Arabia may ban countries with high prevalence of COVID-19 cases from participating in hajj. He made this […]
The stage is set for Gbolahan Lawal, Lagos commissioner for agriculture and former aide-de-camp (ADC) to Bola Tinubu, to be announced as the new oniru of Iru, TheCable has learnt. He resigned his appointment as […]
Access Bank has warned its customers to be on the lookout for fraudsters who are using new methods to swindle people of their money. The bank said fraudsters contact their potential victim via mail, phone […]
You’d be forgiven if you hadn’t noticed. His verbal bombshells are louder than ever, but Donald J. Trump is no longer president of the United States. By having no constructive response to any of the […]
Virgin Atlantic has announced plans to resume scheduled passenger flights from the UK on 20 July. The carrier, whose future has been in the balance since the coronavirus outbreak, will restart operations with flights from […]
The budget office says the allocation for the renovation of the National Assembly Complex in the 2020 budget is N9.25 billion. Ben Akabueze, budget office director-general, cleared the air on Thursday while reacting to reports […]
Godman Akinlabi, lead pastor of The Elevation Church, has asked religious leaders to exercise caution in reopening churches amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Akinlabi said churches must ensure all safety measures are in place before they […]
The house of representatives has rejected castration of persons convicted of rape. At Thursday’s plenary session, the lawmakers voted against castration as punishment for rapists as suggested by James Faleke from Lagos state. They were […]
Femi Anikulapo-Kuti, son of the late activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, and Bankole Wellington have reacted to the Federal Government’s approval of N27 billion for renovation purposes. The Federal Government had earlier approved the sum of N27 […]
There is no dispute about the country and city where the deadly novel coronavirus had originated. The country is China and the city is Wuhan, double-hosting the powerful biological weapons’ laboratory of the Communist nation […]
A recent study suggests that with return to a yam-and-palm-based diet and the minimisation of wheat gluten and milk lactose, the epidemic of the metabolic syndrome that currently challenges Forest West Africa and her global […]
It is disheartening that the First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari has not been pushful in word and indeed for the release of citizen Leah Sharibu, the only remaining Dapchi schoolgirl still held hostage among 110 […]
Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Roche said Thursday the US authorities had given it emergency clearance for a test identifying patients most at risk of a dangerous immune response to coronavirus infection. Some of those worst affected […]
THE President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was brutally frank when recently he admitted that the country could no longer afford its addiction to imported food. Though seemingly casual in his remarks that “…we don’t […]
WITH the recent development of interest in electronic voting, the Independent National Electoral Commission appears set on a revolutionary path that could straighten up Nigeria’s sordid and ungainly electoral system. For those who have been […]
Like a child suffering from dizziness after being flung round and round by a mischievous adult, the world will gradually recover from the unpleasant effects of COVID-19. Only that when the dust finally settles, different […]
Far too many things break the heart about Nigeria. There is the grinding poverty that robs citizens of dignity; pervasive insecurity, which has turned nearly everyone into jittery refugees in their own country and the […]
“With one million species facing extinction, there has never been a more important time to focus on biodiversity” – Joint statement by Ricardo Lozano, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia; Jochen Flasbarth, Secretary of […]
The untoward death of Vera “Uwa” Uwaila Omozuwa, cuts deeply. In recent times, there have been incidences of violence but the circumstances of her death make this one saddening and entirely enraging. According to reports, […]
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