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President Muhammadu Buhari is currently in Accra, Ghana participating in the 59th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government. The Summit is chaired by Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo. President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina is also at the Summit. The Presidency earlier …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to embark on another strike over the deliberate refusal of the Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr Ahmed Idris, to pay the salaries and remittance of check-off dues of over 1,000 staff for 13 months. Dr Lazarus Maigoro, the ASUU chairman, University …

Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, on Saturday, urged local hunters and vigilantes to use all their powers against bandits. Fayemi, who is the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, made the appeal while addressing local hunters and vigilantes groups in Birnin Kebbi, the Kebbi State capital. He also noted …

Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State has said two weeks before bandits attacked Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, there was an intel on bandits presence. The school wasn’t closed, instead a detachment of special Anti-terrorism Task Force was deployed there. When he visited the school in Birnin Yauri for …

  Publicity Secretary of Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze, Alex Ogboannaya, has slammed a coalition of Northern groups for placing a bounty on the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. Newsextra24  had reported that a coalition of 75 northern groups under the aegis of Northern Consensus Movement …

  Okays retracing exercise in non-conflict zones Not all pastoralists can afford ranching –Agric ministry In spite of the overwhelming outcry against the plan to retrace and recover grazing routes across the country, the Federal Government is not showing signs of relenting. Newsextra24 findings revealed that stock routes, popularly called …

A statesman, Sir Chikwe Udensi has expressed displeasure that Abia, his home state has not fared well in the area of infrastructure, querying what is wrong with the state. In a chat with Newsextra24, he highlighted that almost at the states in the South East, including Bayelsa state have airports, …

The Federal Controller of Works in Enugu State, Olufemi Oyekanmi, said the ministry will soon begin the rehabilitation of the dilapidated Ugwu-Onyeama portion of the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway. Mr Oyekanmi said this in an interview with the Newsextra24 in Awka on Friday, saying the project would ease the plight suffered by …

EDO STATE GOVERNOR GODWIN OBASEKI OFFICIAL CAR SANK IN A ROAD IN EDO STATE!

  A BRITISH Airways plane’s nose has collapsed at Heathrow Airport – sparking chaos. Footage shows dozens of emergency services at the scene of the incident, with the nose of the plane on the tarmac of the airport. Fire engines, ambulances and police rushed to the airport with the extent …