Nollywood actress, Iyabo Ojo continues to win in this celebrity Supremacy battle between herself and colleague, Mercy Aigbe. Today, at the just concluded Headies; Nigeria’s premier music award show, Ojo a divorced mum of two emerged the winner of the best dressed at the event which held virtual and live …
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YCE Berates Ahmad Lawan Over Statement On Shasha Crisis
Says leadership silence, inactions, others fuelling killings The Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) has berated the Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, for accusing South-West governors and leaders as responsible for ethnic crisis and killings in the region. But reacting to Lawan’s accusation in a telephone chat with The Guardian, yesterday, …
Read More »Payment Of Public Funds Into Personal Accounts Has Declined By 94%
Payment of public funds into personal accounts has declined by 94% BudgIT, a civic advocacy organisation focused on budget and public finance issues, says the payment of public funds into personal accounts has declined by 94.75 percent. Chinwe Umeh-Ujubuonu, BudgIT program manager; and Chinedu Bassey, program manager at Civil Society …
Read More »Okonjo-Iweala’s Challenges As WTO DG (Photos)
Come March 1, 2021, Nigeria’s Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will assume office as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, to pilot world trade till August 31, 2025. She will not only be the seventh Director-General of the organization, she will also be the first woman and African to be saddled …
Read More »Okorocha’s Arrest: We Shall React Fully To The Situation – Sam Onwuemeodo
A former governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha, on Sunday alleged that the governor of the State, Hope Uzodinma, attacked him with “more than 1000 thugs”. Okorocha and three of his political associates were on Sunday arrested by the state police command after he and his supporters together with armed …
Read More »Petrol Pump Price Dilemma Lingers As FG Retains Subsidy
• Nigerians to know fate on pump price tomorrow • Production costs, subsidy undermine gains from rising oil prices • Marketers adjust prices, threaten shutdown Nigeria’s higher production costs and return of subsidy due to backlash from the public and labour unions are currently undermining the country’s ability to improve …
Read More »Why We Arrested Senator Okorocha – Police
Former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, was arrested for breaking into the Royal Spring Palm Hotels and Apartments, the state police command has said. Newsextra24 had reported how the state government seized the estate allegedly belonging to Nkechi, wife of the former governor. Enyinnaya Onuegbu, the commissioner for lands, …
Read More »Scarcity Of Beef, Tomatoes, Onions Loom In Southern Nigeria
Acute shortage of beef, vegetables, tomatoes and onions, among other essential edibles from the North may soon hit Southern Nigeria, as foodstuff and cattle breeders have threatened to withdraw their services. National President of the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN), Muhammad Tahir, who disclosed this …
Read More »Governor Umahi Calls For Peace Between Uzodimma And Okorocha
Gov. Umahi Sues For Peace Between Uzodimma & Sen. Okorocha The southeast Governors’ Forum has waded into the impasse ensuing between Governor Hope Uzodimma and the former Governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, Newsextra24 reports. The Chairman of the Forum who is also the Governor of Ebonyi State, Engr. …
Read More »Goodluck Jonathan Complains Of Neglect By PDP
Fresh facts have emerged on what transpired at the recent closed-door meeting between former President Goodluck Jonathan and the Reconciliation and Strategy Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by a former President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki. A source privy to the meeting told Newsextra24 at the …
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