Eccentric tech entrepreneur John McAfee died by suicide in a Spanish jail cell Wednesday evening – hours after reports surfaced that he would be extradited to face federal charges in the US, according to local media. McAfee, the founder of a antivirus software company (McAfee Anti-virus), was arrested in October of last …
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A National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member currently serving in Ibadan, Oyo State, has been found guilty of a two-count sex scam charge preferred against him by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the Kwara State High Court sitting in …
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EXPOSED: After Taking N1million Bribe, Inspector General of Police Team In Abuja Releases South-East Youths Framed For Being ESN Members – Newsextra24 The Inspector-General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has been collecting at least N1million bribes as bail before releasing South-East youths and artisans …
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A 13 year-old boy was killed by his father in a violent rage after the boy found pictures of his dad in women’s clothing and eating faeces out of a nappy, a court was told. Dylan Redwine vanished shortly after Thanksgiving in 2012 and father Mark Redwine was arrested four years …
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While some Pentecostal preachers in eastern Nigeria set fire to statues and other ancient artefacts that they regard as symbols of idolatry, one Catholic priest is collecting them instead. The artefacts are central to the traditional religions practised by the region’s Igbo people, who see them as sacred, and …
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LASG ISSUES CONTRAVENTION NOTICES TO RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS IN LEKKI … Gives Three Days Ultimatum For Removal Of Illegal Structures No fewer than 45 residential and commercial buildings on Omorinre Johnson Street and Hunponu Wusu Road, Off Admiralty Way, Lekki, were on Sunday sealed by the officials of Lagos State …
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The Honourable Commissioner for Infrastructure In Ebonyi State, Engr Fidelis Nweze is dead, Newsextra24 has learnt. Newsextra24 gathered that the Honourable Commissioner died in Turkish Hospital in Abuja, the Nation’s capital. The Commissioner’s death is coming just a month after the death of Ebonyi State Commissioner for Housing, Uche Okah. …
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The OPC members had on March 7 arrested Wakili and some of his alleged fighters after a gun battle at the Ibarapa area of the state The Chief Magistrate Court 2, Iyaganku, Ibadan, in the Oyo state capital, has ordered the release of three members of the Oodua Peoples Congress …
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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kwara Command, says it rescued a seven-year-old boy, Usman Abubakar whose right hand has been cut off by a yet to be identified person. Newsextra24 reports that the command’s Public Relations Officer, Babawale Afolabi, said in a statement on Tuesday that …
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It came to my notice that of the 48 suspects illegally paraded as kidnappers in Abuja a while back, half of them were University of Abuja students. Despite the fact that the case against these youth were struck out for lack of diligent prosecution, the University rusticated them. “Good morning …
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