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Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has asked residents to stop addressing him as ‘Your Excellency’ because according to him, only God can be addressed that way. In a statement on Wednesday, Sanwo-Olu said he […]

Twenty-four suspected members of a sex trafficking ring accused of forcing Nigerian women into prostitution in France go on trial Wednesday, the latest case to highlight the growing use of Nigerian migrants as sex slaves […]

Goods worth millions of naira have been destroyed as fire razed the popular Balogun Market on Lagos Island, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. There was weeping as the fire destroyed shops, with thick smoke billowing in the […]

The Senate Committee on Finance has summoned the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, to appear before it on Monday. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, Solomon Adeola, made this known […]

There are very many interesting things about goats. They do not make a difference between males and females when spotting excellent goalies. They are relentless, reeking busybodies. Of more concern to us is that when […]

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo earned the plaudits of the Emir of Daura Alhaji Faruk Umar on Saturday for his loyalty and commitment to the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Umar, who rules over Buhari’s hometown, […]

Rauf Aregbesola, minister of interior, has commended an undercover investigation which exposed the rot in the Nigerian prison establishment. Fisayo Soyombo, undercover journalist and former editor of TheCable, had undertaken an investigation exposing bribery and […]

The Federal Government, through the Ecological Fund Office, on Friday inspected areas affected by recent flooding in Kosofe area of Lagos State with a view to assisting the sacked communities. Mr Ibrahim Lawal, who Led […]

Mobolaji Olufunso Johnson, a retired Nigerian army brigadier-general and the first governor of Lagos state, is dead. Family sources told TheCable that Johnson died on Wednesday around 4pm. He served as governor of Lagos between […]

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bolaji Asiwaju Tinubu has said that there is no need for an airport in Ado-Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti State. Tinubu stated this at the seventh […]

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has declared Okoi Obono-Obla, former chairman of the Special Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), wanted. The anti-graft agency said it took […]

The immediate past Senate President, Bukola Saraki says the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, misled Justice Mohammed Liman of the Federal High Court, Lagos into granting an order of temporary forfeiture of two of […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on Monday ordered the temporary forfeiture of two properties located in Ikoyi area of Lagos State and belonging to the immediate past Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, […]

For the second weekend in a row, residents of Lagos State were trapped in their homes and some others spent hours in traffic as a result of the flood following hours of downpour yesterday. The […]

Musa Rabo, the assistant commissioner of the Nigeria Police Force kidnapped on Saturday, has regained freedom. Frank Mba, force spokesman, disclosed this in a statement. Mba said two suspects were arrested in connection with the […]

The Lagos State government has alerted residents on the cause of rise in water level resulting in flooding in the densely populated state. The Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tunji Bello, stating […]

An All Progressives Congress chief in Niger State, Jonathan Vatsa, has said the emergence of Nigeria’s President from the South-East in 2023 is a right and not a privilege. Addressing journalists in Minna, Niger State […]

The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mr Olamilekan Adegbite, and the Chairman, Senate Committee on Solid Minerals, Mines, Steel Development and Metallurgy, Senator Tanko Al-Makura, on Friday alleged that some governors were behind the […]

The Kogi State House of Assembly on Friday impeached the state’s Deputy Governor, Elder Simon Achuba. The deputy governor was reportedly impeached by the House shortly after it received report of a judicial panel of […]

Agboola, younger brother of Olusegun Adeniyi, chairman of THISDAY editorial board, is dead. Details of his death are still sketchy but TheCable understands that Agboola, who has been ill for a while, died after undergoing […]