# TheCable

> TheCable is a news source in the TOLD catalogue, based in Nigeria. TOLD classifies its editorial position as **Balanced**.

- **Domain:** thecable.ng
- **Website:** https://www.thecable.ng
- **Country:** Nigeria
- **Region:** Africa
- **Language:** English, with fact-checks in Pidgin, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba
- **Editorial position on TOLD:** Balanced
- **Founded:** 2014 (company incorporated 2011)

## About

TheCable works Nigerian power the way an auditor works a ledger, following anti-graft files, National Assembly probes and budget lines rather than chasing the shout. Founded by a former ThisDay editor, it pairs a fast general wire with an investigations and fact-checking desk that a single American foundation paid to build. Its sharpest accountability products exist because a donor in Chicago decided Nigerian corruption was worth funding.

## Profile

- **Ownership:** Incorporated in November 2011 and launched in April 2014 by Simon Kolawole, a former editor of ThisDay, who remains founder and chief executive. Publisher named variously as Cable Media and Publishing Limited and Cable Newspaper Limited. A three-person board includes Waziri Adio, who ran Nigeria's extractive industries transparency agency until February 2021. Shareholding is not published.
- **Funding:** Advertising, sponsored corporate events and grant income held in a separate foundation, the Cable Newspaper Journalism Foundation, which has received about 1.7 million dollars from the MacArthur Foundation since 2016 and a 25,000 dollar fact-checking grant in 2025.
- **Focus areas:** Governance and anti-corruption reporting, the National Assembly and federal executive, energy and the power sector, security, business and markets, climate and environment, and fact-checking in English, Pidgin, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba.


## What the position means

TOLD classifies what an outlet publishes over time, based on ownership, funding
and focus. It describes a pattern; it is not a rating of quality and not a
ranking. Nothing in TOLD sorts, hides or promotes a source by its position.
State-aligned and partisan outlets are in the catalogue on purpose, labelled.

## Latest headlines

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- [Ndume asks military to intensify efforts to rescue abducted Borno schoolchildren](https://www.thecable.ng/ndume-asks-military-to-intensify-efforts-to-rescue-abducted-borno-schoolchildren/) — 2026-08-20T20:07:40.000Z
- [Gospel singer Asu Ekiye announces end of his 28-year marriage](https://lifestyle.thecable.ng/gospel-singer-asu-ekiye-announces-end-of-his-28-year-marriage/#new_tab) — 2026-08-20T19:36:07.000Z
- [Presidency to Atiku: How will you fund proposed petrol subsidy?](https://www.thecable.ng/presidency-to-atiku-how-will-you-fund-proposed-petrol-subsidy/) — 2026-08-20T19:31:36.000Z
- [Report: Prince Harry, Meghan to move back to UK after six years in US](https://lifestyle.thecable.ng/report-prince-harry-meghan-to-move-back-to-uk-after-six-years-in-us/#new_tab) — 2026-08-20T19:07:21.000Z
- [Police arrest 12 suspects over alleged vandalism of Lagos-Calabar coastal highway](https://www.thecable.ng/police-arrest-12-suspects-over-alleged-vandalism-of-lagos-calabar-coastal-highway/) — 2026-08-20T19:05:00.000Z
- [Liberia charges ex-VP Howard-Taylor with drug trafficking after $317m cocaine bust](https://www.thecable.ng/liberia-charges-ex-vp-howard-taylor-with-drug-trafficking-after-317m-cocaine-bust/) — 2026-08-20T18:47:26.000Z

## Assessment note

Latest assessment: 2026-07-28. Generated with TOLD Source Prompt Brief v1.2.7. TOLD summarizes framing patterns and third-party classifications; it does not assess factual accuracy, intent, or legitimacy. External classifications: 8 (5 themes).

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