Usman Baba, the inspector-general of police (IGP), has approved a new dress code allowing hijab for female officers in the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). According to the police, the new dress code also allows female officers to wear stud earrings under their berets or peak caps while in uniform. OlumuyiwaContinue Reading
The division in the All Progressives Congress (APC) deepened at the weekend, after some key party members discovered, via leaked documents, how President Muhammadu Buhari single-handedly dictated the composition of the next Executive Committee of the party. APC has been bogged with its chieftains jostling for who controls the incomingContinue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari arrived in Abuja on Friday, after attending the United Nations Environmental Programme in Nairobi, Kenya. He was initially scheduled to proceed to London for a medical check-up after the event in Kenya, as contained in an earlier press statement. While in Kenya, Buhari participated in the SpecialContinue Reading
The INEC National Electoral Commissioner for information and Voter Education, Mr Festus Okoye has denied rigging the last weekend by-election for the Ogoja-Yala federal constituency in favour of the ruling APC in Cross River State. Few days ago, the chairman of opposition PDP in the State, Venatius Ikem addressed aContinue Reading
The first batch of Nigerians evacuated from Ukraine have arrived at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The evacuees arrived at 7:11am on Friday via Max Air. See pictures below. THE CABLEContinue Reading
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, on Thursday in Abuja, has said that the party won the Presidential seat in the 2019 elections. He also argued that democratic values in Nigeria have steadily declined in the past seven years under the Buhari-led regime. Ayu saidContinue Reading
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has urged Nigerians to avoid panic buying, adding that it has enough petrol in stock. Mele Kyari, group managing director, NNPC, said this while briefing journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, shortly after a meeting with the National Union of Petroleum and Natural GasContinue Reading
Former Emir of Kano, Mohammadu Sanusi has explained why he was sacked from his position as Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, governor and Emir of Kano. Sanusi explained that his attitude of speaking the truth to those in power cost him his positions. The former CBN governor disclosed this whileContinue Reading
The federal government has commenced move that would pave the way for the extradition of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari, to answer to fraud allegations in the United States of America. Kyari, a once celebrated officer of the Nigerian Police, is currently enmeshed in various criminalContinue Reading
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Thursday accused President Muhammadu Buhari of traveling to Kenya to cover up his alleged role in the extra-ordinary rendition of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu. IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, alleged that Buhari traveled to Kenya to induce President Uhuru Kenyatta to cover up hisContinue Reading
