LEICESTER City have fired Steve Cooper as their manager. The Premier League club confirmed this in a statement on Sunday. The Foxes also announced that first-team coach Ben Dawson will take over training imminently. “Men’s first team training will be…
PROMINENT Nigeria’s social critic and human rights activist, Comrade Igbotako Nowinta, has responded to recent attacks made against ex- president Olusegun Obasanjo by Sunday Dare, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Public Communication and Orientation, saying the presidential…
GOVENOR Bassey Otu of Cross River has appealed to labour unions in the state to shelve their planned industrial action over none implementation of the new minimum wage. The governor said his administration remained committed to the implementation of the…
AS COP29 wraps up today, the question remains: did the world’s youth, particularly in Africa, receive the attention they deserve? A new survey, the 2024 African Youth Survey, reveals that climate change is at the forefront of their concerns, with the…
A powerful Israeli air strike on central Beirut killed 15 people and wounded 63 before dawn on Saturday, bringing down a residential building and jolting residents awake across the Lebanese capital. The attack destroyed an eight-storey building in the Basta al-Fawqa neighbourhood, resulting in a large number of casualties, Lebanon’s…
THE International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday announced a decision that has been widely recognised as a historic precedent. A panel of three judges, known as Pre-Trial Chamber I, issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas military commander…
THE Benin Writers’ Society (BWS) celebrate the industry and astuteness of one its Members -Miss Sharon Orevaghene Emethuile,who graduated with distinction and good character from the Faculty of Law, University of Benin (UNIBEN) at the recent convocation ceremonies of…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced plans to begin nationwide continuous voter registration (CVR) in the first quarter of 2025. In a memo dated November 20, 2024, and sighted by TheCable, Rose Oriaran-Anthony, the Commission’s Secretary, directed resident…
By Inusa Ndahi, Damaturu THE Yobe State Chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has expressed optimism in the consideration and approval of N70,000 minimum wage by Governor Mai Mala Buni in order to benefit both workers and the…
On November 22, 1963, as John F. Kennedy’s motorcade rolled through Dallas, the world witnessed the violent silencing of a leader who dared to challenge the clandestine forces steering global affairs. Kennedy’s assassination was not merely the result of the…
