The UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) has reviewed guidelines for its decision makers on how to consider and grant asylum applications made by persons fleeing Boko Haram and ISWAP in northeast Nigeria, TheCable can report. In a recent review seen by TheCable, UKVI is willing to grant asylum to LGBTI persons …

The Imo State police command has arrested six suspected kidnappers and rescued one kidnap victim. Michael Abattam, the State’s Police Public Relations Officer, in a press release, said the suspected kidnappers were arrested in Tebegbe water side in Delta State. According to the release, the tactical team of the command acted …

The Nigerian Ambassador to the Benin Republic, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd.), is in the forefront of the desperate efforts by the Muhammadu Buhari regime to get Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Igboho, extradited to Nigeria. Newsextra24 was told that Buratai, who was appointed Nigerian envoy to Benin in …

A soldier and one assailant have been killed in a gun duel when suspected sea pirates attacked a military Joint Task Force, JTF, checkpoint at Tuomo community in Burutu local government area of Delta state. A former CDC chairman of Tuomo community, Mr Akpoebiede Defence, who confirmed the incident to …

Lead counsel for arrested Yoruba Nation activist Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, has described as inhuman, the treatment his client was being subjected to in the custody of the police in Benin Republic. The counsel, Chief Yomi Alliyu ( SAN), said this while speaking with Newsextra24 on Tuesday night. He …

Facts have emerged on how Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, initially escaped arrest at the Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou, Benin Republic before his eventual arrest around 8pm on Monday. A top security source told Newsextra24 that Igboho and his wife, Ropo, at first, escaped arrest but …

Power generation in Nigeria dropped below the 4,000 megawatts mark on Tuesday amid the Eid-el-Kabir celebration. The total generation in the country stood at 3,958.7MW as of 6am on Tuesday, down from 4,270.7MW on Monday, according to data obtained from the Nigerian Electricity System Operator. On Monday, the peak generation …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dM_z9urqgM   Video of Ghana youth rejecting bags of rice from their Member of Parliament to help in celebrating their festivities has caused stirs online. According to information gathered, Member of Parliament Abu Jinapor as a usual routine decided to provide his community members with some bags of rice. Hon …

  Fans of late Olanrewaju Fasasi, popularly known as Sound Sultan, including celebrities, gathered on Sunday for a procession and night of tributes to the musician who died at the age of 44. Sound Sultan died following a hard-fought battle with Angioimmunoblastic T-Cell Lymphoma on July 11. ATCL is a …

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has warned that the rejection of electronic transmission of election results by the National Assembly through votes of most members of both chambers of the parliament against that clause in the Electoral Act, could deter the country’s effort at attracting Foreign Direct Investments, FDIs. …