University of Cape Town on Sunday, 18 April 2021 The University of Cape Town (UCT) says all students on its main campus were being evacuated by emergency services support staff on Sunday as a runaway wildfire spread onto the campus grounds. In a statement, after the outbreak of a fire …

Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in this interview with Newsextra24 speaks on latest developments in the polity, especiallly on the delay in signing the Electoral Act Amendment Bill with less than two years to the conduct of the 2023 general elections. Excerpts: We understand …

Dozens of persons have been arrested by security agents in an ongoing nationwide crackdown on suspected financiers and collaborators of Boko Haram and other criminal groups in Nigeria, Newsextra24 reports. This is coming five months after Daily Trust exclusively reported jailing of six Nigerians in the United Arab Emirates over …

“Lagos is the first Sub-National that has taken up a Rail Project.. It is audacious” – @jidesanwoolu “We should see the rail movement by the last quarter of Next Year” – @jidesanwoolu “We have just awarded the navy town road” – @jidesanwoolu “There are big investments we are doing on …

A student of the College of Business and Management Studies in Konduga, Juliana Christopher, who was kidnapped by Boko Haram, has said she saw many Chibok girls in the insurgents’ camp. He added that many small girls were either pregnant or nursing children belonging to the insurgents. Christopher, in an …

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: LEADING EUROPEAN FOOTBALL CLUBS UNVEIL NEW SUPER LEAGUE 19/04/2021 Twelve of Europe’s top football clubs have today announced that they have agreed to form a new competition, the Super League, governed by their Founding Clubs. AC Milan, Arsenal FC, Atletico Madrid, Chelsea FC, FC Barcelona, FC Internazionale Milano, …

FIFA have released a statement after the announcement of the Super League formation, expressing its ‘disapproval’, but also urging ‘calm, constructive and balanced dialogue for the good of the game.’ The 12 breakaway clubs – Milan, Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, Chelsea, Barcelona, Inter, Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Real Madrid …

A former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, on Sunday disclosed that an unnamed governor from the South-South region, an emir and a former senator from the North ensured his release from the custody of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Okorocha in a statement on Sunday by his spokesperson, Sam …

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said claims by his Edo State counterpart, Godwin Obaseki that Federal the Government printed about N60 Billion to share to the federating units in March cannot be regarded as spurious. The governor challenged the Central Bank of Nigeria to unequivocally declare if money was …

The management of Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc has said it is committing over $700m to its sugar projects to support the Backward Integration Policy of the Federal Government to make Nigeria self-sufficient in sugar production. According to a statement issued on Sunday by Dangote Industries Limited, the company disclosed this …