ONE of the challenges of health care delivery in developing countries is how drugs that are supposed to aid the system turn out to be its major headache. Thus, drug abuse and the proliferation of illicit and fake drugs account for the health challenges in these countries. In economic terms, …

NIGERIAN-American dancer, Korra Obidi, has cried out for help after suffering an attack in the United Kingdom (UK). Newsextra24 reports that Korra, in a post via her Instagram page on Thursday, revealed that she was attacked with a knife and acid during a live stream. Korra also said she was currently …

RELEGATION-threatened Sheffield United are the latest Premier League side to suffer points deduction for breaching financial fair play rules. Sheffield United breached the financial fair play rules during the 2022-2023 season while playing in the Championship, England’s second-tier league. Unlike Everton and Nottingham Forest who have suffered points deductions this season in …

FORMER President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the death of the ex-Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Ogbonnaya Onu. Newsextra24 reported that Onu, the first civilian Governor of Abia State, passed away on Thursday morning in an Abuja hospital at the age of 72. According to a source close to the deceased, the …

THE Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has approved the extension of the free bus scheme implemented by the state government as a result of the fuel subsidy removal by the federal government for another three months. Newsextra24 reports that the state government introduced the scheme in September 2023 for an initial …

AUSTRIAN-Nigerian singer, Rose May Alaba, has said that she can’t date or marry a footballer. According to her, football players are to be “catered for.” She noted that her desire for independence and pursuing her own aspirations, would not be feasible if she were with a footballer. Rose May, who …

A former American football star, actor and notorious suspected double murderer, OJ Simpson, is dead. The former football star died of cancer at 76 and his family confirmed this in a statement on Thursday. He was tried in 1995 and controversially acquitted for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown …

GOVERNOR Hope Uzodimma of Imo State has expressed shock over the death of the former governor of old Abia State and Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu. Onu was confirmed dead at an undisclosed hospital in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Thursday, a development Governor Uzodimma described …

THE debilitating crisis of non-payment of salary at the Edo State-owned Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma has taken a worse dimension in the University being dragged before the National Industrial Court of Nigeria in the Benin Judicial Division for owing salaries of some staff for 27 months. Angered by non-payment …

SOME Anambra residents have expressed shock at the demise of the first civilian governor of Abia State and former Minister of Science and Technology under former President Muhammedu’s administration,  Dr Ogbonnaya Onu. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Onu died at a hospital in Abuja on Thursday after …