With two weeks to go before the UK goes to the polls in a general election, an old newspaper column written by current Prime Minister Boris Johnson has surfaced in which he stereotypes Nigerians. Mr Johnson, who used to work as a journalist, wrote a piece in 1999 about how young people could be attracted […]
A Cambridge college has decided to return a Benin Bronze to Nigeria. Jesus College will restitute a statue of a cockerel, which was looted by a British punitive expedition to Benin in 1897. The cockerel has been displayed in the college refectory. After the student union called for its return in 2016 the statue was […]
The FCT Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Ayuba Gora, says driving with the aid of Google map using mobile phones is a serious traffic offence. Mr Gora said this at the inauguration of the 2019 Ember Months Campaign by Lugbe Unit Command of the FRSC in Abuja on Wednesday. According to […]
The Federal Government has received the nominal roll of about 41 universities as part of moves to capture university workers into the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System. The Coordinator of IPPIS in the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr Olusegun Olufehinti, confirmed the figure to one of our correspondents during a telephone interview […]
The Federal Government admitted on Wednesday that its temporary policy to close land borders was responsible for the current rising inflation in the country. But it still defended the closure, insisting that it would remain in place until the country’s neighbours learnt to respect trade protocols. The FG said it had to close borders because […]
Returns to Heathrow A British Airways flight heading to Abuja from London on Tuesday returned to Heathrow Airport after the plane lost one of its engines mid-air. The airline confirmed that BA 083 flight returned to Heathrow and was met by the emergency services as a precaution measure after what it called “a minor technical […]
A junior secondary school pupil has shocked a gathering of educationists in Alausa with a revelation. The boy told the audience how fellow pupils drugged their teachers to cheat during examinations. A parent also said she was severely distressed by her neighbour’s child drug abuse. These were the revelation at the seminar organised by the […]
Innocent Enweh, a Catholic priest, said the opening prayer at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) conference on witchcraft. The two-day conference, being organised by Professor B.I.C Ijomah Centre for Policy and Research in UNN, began on Monday after intense opposition. The Cable had reported how various groups, including the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) […]
The Yoruba sociopolitical group, Afenifere, has called on Nigerians to be vigilant following the growing rumour of a third term bid for President Muhammadu Buhari. It also took a swipe at the Nigerian Senate for devoting its legislative time to debating the ‘hate speech bill’ which it described as a gag bill aimed at taking […]
Four migrants died and more than a dozen were missing after a packed dinghy ran into trouble while trying to reach Spain, coastguard officials said Wednesday. A Spanish coastguard boat managed to save 58 migrants, including three children, late on Tuesday from the dinghy drifting in the Alboran Sea about 50 kilometres (30 miles) north […]