A Member of the Anambra State House of Assembly, Hon Nnamdi Okafor has been announced dead. DAILY POST reports that Okafor, who represents Awka South State constituency 1, is also the majority leader of the State Assembly. The Two-time lawmaker reportedly slumped in a hotel in South Africa, where he is holidaying. A Source, who announced…
Nigerian governors are of the opinion that elections may not hold in several north-west states as a result of the prevalent insecurity in the geopolitical zone. North-west comprises seven states — Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, and Zamfara. TheCable understands that the governors shared their perspective with President Muhammadu Buhari in a policy brief. The…
The fascinating footprints have emerged due to the extreme weather conditions that have led to the drying up of a river where they would normally be underwater and filled with sediment Dinosaur footprints from 113million years ago have been found on a river bed that has been left dry by severe drought conditions. The discovery…
The “ballgame”, as it is simply known to researchers, was thought to be a violent sport, and some scholars even believe losing players were sacrificed at the end of the game A creepy Mayan ballgame that turned dead people into the insides of rubber balls has fascinated researchers. “The ballgame”, as scholars call it, is…
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) Presidential Candidate, Dumebi Kachikwu, says Nigerians need to start focusing more on solutions to the crises experienced in the nation. The presidential candidate made this statement while speaking at the ongoing Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), at Eko Hotel on Monday. The conference, themed “BOLD Transitions”…
According to the Central Bank of Nigeria, interest rates on all applicable intervention facilities have been reduced from 5% to 9% per year.In the midst of the pandemic in 2020, the bank announced a one-year reduction in interest rates on all its intervention facilities from 9% to 5% as part of policies to mitigate the…
Nigeria is cracking down on unregistered online money lenders who offer short-term loans with no security at high interest rates, according to the consumer protection agency, adding that it had asked Google to remove some lenders’ apps from its play store.The lenders, dubbed “loan sharks” due to their aggressive recovery methods, charge interest rates of…
The National Pension Commission has vowed to go tough on relatives, workers and retirees who fake deaths of contributors to the Contributory Pension Scheme in order the get the benefits entitled to deceased persons. To ensure that a worker is truly dead apart from other means of verification, PenCom has also asked the banks to…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has said that the elections in 2023 will not be about connections, tribe, tribe or religion, but about competence, character and commitment to deliver. Obi stated this at the 2022 Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Bar Association currently holding at the Eko Hotels. Obi said, “Remember,…
• Want Sylva, Kyari sacked Protesters, under the auspices of Amalgamated Arewa Youth Groups, yesterday, stormed headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, demanding termination of a multi-million dollar pipeline contract awarded to former militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo (popularly known as Tompolo). The demonstrators, a coalition of 225 youth groups in the North,…