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A video showing Wilson Dauyegha, minority leader of the Bayelsa house of assembly, attacking Jotham Amos, chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, has surfaced online..... Read more via TheCable – https://ift.tt/2Y0Filu Get More Nigeria Political News

The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) says it will hold President Muhammadu Buhari responsible if any northerner is attacked in the south.... Read more via TheCable – https://ift.tt/2XYaeTB Get More Nigeria Political News

Amaju Pinnick, president of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), wanted to kick out Ahmad Ahmad as president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), so he could take over, insiders have.... Read more via TheCable – https://ift.tt/2Z2w7Cw Get More Nigeria Sports News

The office of the secretary to the government of the federation (OSGF) has released the new official portrait of President Muhammadu Buhari, rendering his first term portraits obsolete.... Read more via TheCable – https://ift.tt/32Bnocu Get More Nigeria Political News

An army commander and at least 20 soldiers have been killed in an ambush by Boko Haram insurgents in Yobe state. The troops were ambushed on their way from Borogozo in Yobe where the.... Read more via TheCable – https://ift.tt/2JNYnT1 Get More Nigeria Metro News

Members of the private sector under the aegis of the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) says N6 trillion revenue has been lost to the Apapa gridlock..... Read more via TheCable – https://ift.tt/32pPB6h Get more: Nigeria Business News

The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore has called for the arrest of former President Olusegun Obasanjo over comments he made in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari. In the letter dated July 15, Obasanjo asked the president to take... Read more via TheCable – https://ift.tt/2SiHV0R Get More...

A three-story building collapsed in Jos, Plateau state capital, on Monday, leaving many residents trapped. The building, which houses a pharmacy and a public toilet, is located at Butcher lane.... Read more via TheCable – https://ift.tt/2LTC6G1 Get More Nigeria Metro News

Bola Tinubu, a national of leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says those blaming herdsmen for the death of Funke Olakurin, daughter of Reuben Fasoranti, do not have evidence.... more via TheCable – https://ift.tt/2lgXYzO Get More Nigeria Metro News

The total revenue received by the Lagos state government in 2018 was higher than what was received by the entire south-east region. The south-east region consists of five states.... Read more via TheCable – https://ift.tt/2xH3tLm Get More Nigeria Metro News

Enoch Adeboye, general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), says the fact that he is quiet does not mean he is silent on national issues.... Read more via TheCable – https://ift.tt/2S3RnFa Get More Nigeria Metro News

Maikanti Baru, immediate past group managing director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), says he has sacrificed 45.6% of his terminal benefit for the corporation’s pensioners..... Read more via TheCable – https://ift.tt/2Jnk9y6 Get More Nigeria Metro News

Mahmood Yakubu, national chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commissioner (INEC), says politicians who praise INEC when elections favour them turn around to cast aspersion on the commission when things do not go their way.... Read more via TheCable – https://ift.tt/2NQ7QyC Get...

Stuart Symington, US ambassador to Nigeria, has advised the federal government to get rid of fuel subsidy. The advice is coming a week after Muhammad Sanusi, emir of Kano, said heavy subsidy is leading.... Read more via TheCable – https://ift.tt/305GqWy Get More Nigeria Metro News

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it has over 400 witnesses willing to testify at the presidential election petition tribunal. Levi Uzeugwu, PDP’s lead counsel, said this during proceedings at the.... Read more via TheCable – https://ift.tt/321yUOd Get More Nigeria Political News

Reno Omokri, an ex-aide to former president Goodluck Jonathan, has described Yemi Osinbajo, the vice president, as a man who lies as much as the devil he preaches against.... Read more via TheCable – https://ift.tt/2X1g3PH Get More Nigeria Political News

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, says the state is “Christian state and cannot be touched by anyone”. Nigeria is a secular nation, according to the constitution.... Read more via TheCable – http://bit.ly/2xe8niB Get More Nigeria Political News

The camp of the Super Eagles of Nigeria bubbled specially on Monday evening after news came that Samuel Kalu had been declared fit after he collapsed on Friday in training.... Read more via TheCable – http://bit.ly/2KBgT3W Get More Nigeria Sports News

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says the problem of extreme poverty in Nigeria keeps him awake at night. Osinbajo disclosed this at an interactive session with faculty members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) who were in Lagos on Tuesday. The vice president featured on a panel alongside Srikant...

Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have killed four persons, including a soldier at Tanturon in Riyom local government area of Plateau state.... Read more via TheCable – http://bit.ly/2XX562S Get More Nigeria Metro News