The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) started its weekly activities by throwing more light on the controversial areas of its 2020 audited financial report that placed the corporation on a profit lane. It will be recalled that on Aug. 26, President Muhammadu Buhari announced a profit after tax of N287billion …

The Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has said governors are afraid of signing death warrants of convicts because they would not want to order the execution and later find out that the person did not deserve to die. Governors in the country have been criticised for being reluctant …

Ten students of Abia State University, Uturu (ABSU) have reportedly been abducted by bandits along the Ihube-ABSU Road. The abduction comes weeks after three lecturers of the institution were kidnapped by gunmen along Uturu/Isuikwuato Road. The incident, which reportedly took place between 5 pm and 6 pm on Saturday, has …

President Buhari departs for 76th UN General Assembly in New York on 19th Sep 2021

Obadiah Mailafia, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria is Dead.
He died on Sunday after a brief illness. According to the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the Middle Belt Forum, Ms Ndi Kato, Dr Mailafia died on Sunday Morning at the National Hospital Abuja from a yet …

Penultimate to the election of 2015, leaders of Peoples Democratic Party from the north led agitation for power shift to the region. The argument then was that it was immoral for President Goodluck Jonathan, as then was, to seek reelection under the platform of the party having entered a pact …

  Presiding Justice of the Kano Division of the Court of Appeal, Justice Hussein Mukhtar is dead. Mukhtar JCA (born October 02, 1954) hails from Bauchi State and attended the Government Secondary School, Azare, Bauchi State. He attended the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria and was called to the Nigerian …

The Inspector General of Police, IG Usman Baba Alkali has called on officers and men of the Force in the country to get married to themselves to strengthen the service. Giving the advice during his one-day working visit to the Niger State Police Command in Minna, Alkali urged the personnel …

More than four high tension towers that supply electricity from Damaturu to Maiduguri in Borno State were blown off again by suspected members of Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters last night, Newsextra24 can authoritatively report. The incident happened in Garin Kuturu village, which is about two kilometers …

J.K. Randle x3 Dr John Kehinde “JK” Randle Dr John Kehinde “JK” Randle was born in Sierra Leone in 1855. His father, Thomas Randle, was a liberated slave from Oyo, who had settled in Freetown. He later moved to Lagos. John Randle attended the CMS Grammar School in Freetown, Sierra …