THE Governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri, has cleared the air on the controversy around his visit to President Bola Tinubu on Thursday. Diri, while speaking at the Igbedi community, Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of the state, said he owes nobody an explanation for visiting the President. He further stated …
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EIGHTEEN-year-old Mustapha Adamu Isa, aka Abbati, was paraded on Friday by the Gombe State Police Command for the alleged murder of Aishatu Abdullahi Adda Damori. Damori, 58, a mother of eight children, was killed by unknown persons in her bedroom last Friday. During the parade, Gombe State Police Command spokesperson, …
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THE naira appreciated by N137 in the parallel market, exchanging at N1,113/$1 on Friday. According to Dayyabu Mistila, a Bureau De Change operator in Wuse Zone 4, Abuja, Nigerians bought naira at N1,113/$1 on Friday. The currency appreciated reasonably from the N1, 250/$1 it traded on Thursday at the unofficial …
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THE New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has wished President Bola Tinubu a successful tenure following his victory at the Supreme Court. The Lagos State NNPP Secretary, Sheriff Oladejo, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos. According to him, Tinubu’s victory …
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THE Anambra State government has initiated efforts to automate its budget processes for the 2024 fiscal year. The move follows Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s resolve to digitize the state. A press release from the Anambra State ICT Agency, which was made available to journalists in Awka, said the agency has initiated …
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A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday struck out the application filed by the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Adamawa State, Senator Aisha Binani Dahiru, seeking to stop the prosecution of Hudu Yunusa-Ari, the suspended Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner. Hudu had illegally announced Binani as the winner of …
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KANO State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf has presented a budget estimate of N350 billion for the 2024 fiscal year to the state House of Assembly. The governor said the proposed Appropriation Bill titled ‘Budget of Restoration and Transformation’ will change the narrative in Kano. Presenting the budget estimate to the …
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GODWIN Emefiele, former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, was reportedly released from the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS, on Thursday and subsequently picked up by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Newsextra24 gathered that the spokesperson for the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, on Friday …
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THE National Chairman of Labour Party, LP, Julius Abure, has lamented that the last presidential election has shown Nigeria is sliding towards dictatorship. Abure made the remark while accusing the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government of attempting to suppress its presidential candidate, Peter Obi. He noted that the verdict of …
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THE Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), has said the anti-narcotics agency will deploy personnel in all 774 local government areas of the country in 2024 as part of efforts to strengthen the war against substance abuse and illicit …
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