Seventy-two days after beating Germany to finish third at the U-17 Women’s World Cup in India, players and officials of the Flamingos are yet to receive their allowances and match bonuses with some of the players telling Newsextra24 they virtually went begging for money to celebrate the Yuletide.   Our …

A 200-level student of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, identified simply as Daniel, has been shot dead by armed robbers while trying to recover his phone from armed robbers in his lodge.   According to an eyewitness, the incident happened on Sunday when the victim’s phone was taken by some …

Nigerian filmmaker and founder of the African Movie Academy Awards, Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, is dead.   According to reports, she died in a hospital in Lagos State.   Ayiam-Osigwe who was also the President of the Association of Movie Producers was reportedly in a coma before she breathed her last. Her …

Renown veteran actress, Kate Henshaw, has been elected unopposed as the National Public Relations Officer of the Actors Guild of Nigeria.   The National Secretary of AGN, Abubakar Yakubu, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos.   Yakubu said that Henshaw was elected on January 9 with a …

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Lagos State, on Monday, heard how a businesswoman’s 17-year-old daughter was allegedly defiled by a pastor, Chris Mcdouglas.   The witness said Mcdouglas, a pastor at the Peculiar Generation Assembly Church, Lagos, allegedly had sex with the survivor at the back of …

With less than two months to the 2023 general election, the Labour Party has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of plans to disenfranchise a larger population of the Nigerian youths. The party hinged its claim on the January 20 deadline set by the INEC for the collection of …

Rivers State Police command has confirmed the killing of 2 persons, including a suspected cult leader identified as Precious Adiele. Another person simply identified as Pius was also said to have been set ablaze by members of the cult group. The incident took place on Saturday evening in Port Harcourt …

Paris Saint-Germain attacker, Lionel Messi has said that he hardly knows his teammate, Neymar. Neymar and Messi were teammates at Barcelona before meeting again at PSG and in what appears as a joke, the World Cup winner said they hardly know one another. He made the comment about his friendship …

Nigeria’s swelling debt profile without a commensurate infrastructural development has become of great concern to many Nigerians. For economic experts, the situation would spell doom for President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor as from May 29, 2023. Just recently, the Debt Management Office, DMO, said Nigeria’s total debt stock would hit N77tn …

The family of Godwin Agbo, a dispatch rider with Jumia Online Shopping, has appealed to the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba and the Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Adebowale Williams not to allow the killer of their son go unpunished. The family made the appeal while addressing journalists …