Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has approved the deployment of modern technology in the security system to fight crimes in the State. The Governor of Abia State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, has debunked speculations that he plans to dump the Peoples Democratic Party for the All Progressives Congress. …

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit central Croatia on Monday with an epicentre some 50 kilometres southeast of the capital Zagreb, Croatian state television reported, citing data from the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre. The quake at 0528 GMT was also felt in the capital. There were no immediate reports of injuries …

Indian police in Kashmir filed charges against an army officer and a civilian for allegedly killing three labourers and planting weapons to pass them off as militants, in a rare indictment of the military fighting an insurgency in the region. The three labourers were killed in July after what the …

A Reuters cameraman, Kumerra Gemechu, was arrested in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Thursday and will be kept in custody for at least two weeks, his family said. He has not been charged. No reason was provided to the family for Thursday’s arrest, and police did not respond to …

A Chinese court handed a four-year jail term on Monday to a citizen-journalist who reported from the central city of Wuhan at the peak of last year’s coronavirus outbreak, on grounds of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” her lawyer said. Zhang Zhan, 37, the first such person known to have …

Seven Nigerians have died in 24 hours after contracting the deadly coronavirus. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) the country recorded 838 new cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Sunday. This brings the total cases in Nigeria to 84,414 and 1,254 fatalities since the pandemic began. As …

A former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Sunday, narrated how he survived the February 1976 military coup d’etat, involving Lieutenant Colonel Buka Dimka. Obasanjo said it was General Olu Bajowa (retd.) that indirectly saved him from being killed in the coup. The former Head of State gave the revelation …

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu may be the next Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) governor to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Newsextra24 has gathered. Credible sources said talks between Ikpeazu and the APC had reached an ad­vanced stage while some of his foot soldiers are already in the party as …

Following reports making rounds in the media and online platforms that Jennifer Robert and an unadentifed person were killed at the well attended Ochacho Carnival, held in Otukpo, Benue state ,the Food Basket of the Nation, it has been gathered that the incident reportedly happened two streets away from the …

Emoney meets Ooni of Ife and former president Obasanjo in Ondo State, at an event they all attended together. See video below;