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Minister of State for Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva, has said that the country accidentally discovered 206 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves while in search of crude oil. Sylva, who disclosed this in Abuja at a Newsextra24 forum, said that the country could discover an additional 600 trillion cubic feet …

PLAGUED by years of interminable Islamist terrorism, banditry and other unbridled security challenges, Nigeria’s ability to feed its mammoth population is becoming highly questionable. Already, millions of Nigerians are unable to feed like they used to do. With insecurity deteriorating to an extraordinary level, there is a real threat of …

Bashir Ahmad, President Muhammadu Buhari’s personal assistant on New Media, has confirmed the defection of Governor Bello Metawalle of Zamfara State to the All Progressive Congress (APC). Mr Metawalle, a governor of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),Newsextra24 learnt will formally join the ruling party on Tuesday, after months of denial. …

Workers in Ondo state are on a collision course with the state government over percentage payment of salaries. The State Executive and Administrative Councils of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) in the state have said that workers “will no henceforth accept percentage salaries. A communiqué issued by the …

  The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has announced plans to accelerate development of the eagerly-awaited Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA). At a retreat organised by the National Commission for Museums and Monuments that held in Benin City, the Governor revealed that the construction of an …

Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi has congratulated the immediate past President and Group CEO of Transcorp, Valentine Ozigbo, for emerging as the Party’s candidate for the Anambra State governorship election. Reacting after the primaries that produced Ozigbo as …

  A banker, Valentine Ozigbo, has emerged as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State. The 50-year-old Mr Ozigbo polled 62 out of 218 votes to beat 13 other aspirants who were on the ballot. Some aspirants had withdrawn from the primary out of protest …

PDP party primaries for November 6th gubernatorial race has been marred with violence. Some aspirants that wasn’t satisfied with the process invaded the venue with thugs that came to beat up people on the area. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CreuslS0_W8

Eleven governorship aspirants under the All Progressives Congress [APC), led by Chief George Moghalu, have called for the cancellation of the exercise, noting that the process has been hijacked by some enemies of APC in the country. The aspirants also called on the National Working Committee of the party to …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday in Abuja inaugurated the War Against Drug Abuse (WADA), saying the war must be fought by all well meaning citizens Mr Buhari asserted that the drug war was more dangerous than wars against insurgency and banditry because it targeted three generations for destruction. The launch …