The Central Bank of Nigeria, on Monday, released the guidelines for its new credit policy, which is aimed at providing funds to the agriculture and manufacturing sector at a single digit interest rate. According to the guidelines, the maximum amount accessible by a party is
Festus Keyamo, human rights lawyer, says since 1960 no government has touched the lives of the poor like the one led by President Muhammadu Buhari. Keyamo, director Media, Buhari Campaign Organisation, made this known in Ilorin, Kwara state capital, at the inauguration of Buhari/Osinbajo Project
The federal ministry of labour and employment organised an N88 million empowerment exercise for individuals that could not be traced. According to the 2016 report from the auditor-general of the federation obtained by TheCable, the supposed empowerment exercise were constituency projects for youths in Oyo
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has begun the investigation of Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, his wife, Feyisetan, and his top aides, TheCable can report. Others being investigated are Lere Olayinka, spokesman to the governor; Toyin Ojo, the state’s commissioner for finance; Oluyemisi
IKe Ekweremadu, deputy senate president, has asked Nigerians to revisit the issue of single term for the president and governors. In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Ekweremadu said when the issue was first proposed in the seventh assembly, it did not succeed because the legislation
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has given President Muhammadu Buhari 24 hours to arrest leaders of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) and prosecute them. In a statement on Wednesday, Kola Ologbondiyan, spokesman of the party, said if the president refuses to do that, he
Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, says the 800 metres trekking President Buhari embarked upon from the Eid-ground in Daura to his private residence, is an indication of his fitness to seek re-election in 2019. President Buhari decided ro trek back
Child actor Emmanuel Quaye, popularly known as Strika, his character in award-winning movie Beasts of No Nation is sharing how life has been for him so far. According to a journalist Caleb Boye on Facebook, he said he met Emmanuel on his way to the Ghana Institute of Journalism campus “begging for money
Liberian president George Weah is set to honour former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger and French coach Claude Le Roy for their role in his footballing career, BBC reports. The decoration ceremony is billed to hold in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia on Friday 24th August. President Weah is the only African to have won both
The US First Lady Melania Trump is set to visit Africa for the first time. According to BBC, Trump in a statement revealed that she will be traveling to the continent to educate herself on issues facing children while working on some humanitarian activities and help in the “development
Senate President Bukola Saraki has replied Bola Tinubu who said he defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) because he knew he’d lose his seat in 2019 and he needed automatic ticket. They (Saraki and Aminu Tambuwal) “left the party to return to a motley agglomeration that would promise them what
Oyo state government, at a press conference on Monday, has narrated the events that led to the demolition of Yinka Ayefele‘s Music House, which also houses his radio station Fresh FM, in Ibadan. TheCable reports that Special Adviser to Governor Abiola Ajimobi on Physical Planning, Waheed Gbadamosi said that no court order restrained
The 2018 MTV Video Music Awards just wrapped up at the Radio City Music Hall on Monday (August 20) in New York City. Click here for all the red carpet looks. 49-year-old entertainer Jennifer Lopez was the Video Vanguard Award winner this year. After thanking her team and family, JLo
Nigerian governors have said that they are not elected just to pay salaries alone, Abdulaziz Yari This was made known by the chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara state. Yari spoke to journalists on Wednesday night after their NGF meeting. The governors
Samuel Ogundipe, the Premium Times journalist who has been in police custody since Tuesday has been released, Premium Times is reporting. Ogundipe was arrested by SARS officers and taken to the police headquarters, alongside the editor-in-chief of the news portal. The editor-in-chief was later released. The journalist was