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Many talented and brilliant Nigerians have had their promising future ruined by their desperation to seek greener pastures abroad. Some of them who quit thriving jobs at home end up doing menial jobs abroad with several others becoming fugitives in the long run, Newsextra reports. Henry was a top insurance …

Bandits sack Niger community, rustle several cattle, sheep With barely four days after armed bandits invaded the Joint Security TaskForce Camp in Allawa in Shiroro local government area of Niger state, killing five Soldiers and a Mobile Policeman, the entire Allawa community has been sacked by gunmen. The gunmen who …

Gunmen suspected to be operatives of the Eastern Security Network established by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, have killed four Hausa traders in Imo state. A member of the Hausa community in the state told Newsextra24 that three northerners were killed in Orlu while the fourth person was attacked in …

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over “his failure to probe allegations that N3,836,685,213.13 of public funds meant for the Federal Ministry of Health, teaching hospitals, medical centres, and National Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) are missing, mismanaged, diverted or stolen, …

The Chairman of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association in Nasarawa State, Alhaji Mohammed Hussain, has been shot dead by unknown gunmen in Toto Local Government Area of the State. The leader of the group was killed on Friday night alongside the chairman of the association, Mohammed Umar. This was confirmed …

Some analysts have detailed how a Boko Haram video claiming to have brought down a fighter jet was doctored. The jet, NAF 475, went off the radar on Wednesday while on a mission to provide support to ground troops fighting Boko Haram. The whereabouts of the two pilots remain known, …

THE entire five South Eastern states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo appear to be boiling and there is tension in most communities, no thanks to the renewed insecurity challenges in the zone. Since the beginning of 2021, there had been bloodbath in most of the states and there …

A Nigerian man has been left counting his losses after he was scammed by fake bank representatives. Apparently, the scammers promised to flip his money by a large profit margin and that format was enough to convince the gullible victim into sending one hundred thousand naira to the scammers. However, …

It was gathered by Newsextra24, that the deceased popularly known as General Frank, was shot dead by some gunmen in his hometown, Bilabiri community, in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Thursday night, April 1. It is not clear if his death is related to the reported killings …

Zulum misses Boko Haram ambush, as terrorists attack Borno Relief Committee officials Boko Haram would have been recorded today (Friday), as the terrorists ambushed a convoy of Borno State Resettlement and Relief Committee officials. The Relief Committee, made up of mostly commissioners and other top government officials, were coming from …