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PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu will make a New Year’s Day broadcast to the nation on Monday, January 1, 2024, at 7 am. Newsextra24 reports that this was made known in a statement on Sunday by Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale. “Television, radio stations, and other electronic media …

THE attention of the Edo State Labour Party (LP) has been drawn to a video circulating in sections of the media where the former National Youth Leader and others who have been long expelled from the party were beaten and manhandled by group of persons in Benin City, the Edo …

Rauf Aregbesola FORMER Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, has commended the people of the state for their continued decision to reject monetary inducement and vote for the candidates of their hearts. Represented by the former Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Sikiru Ayedun, at Osogbo, during the Asala Day and conferment …

THE Senate has passed the 2024 Appropriation Bill, increasing the budget from the N27.5 trillion presented by President Bola Tinubu to N28.7 trillion. The upper legislative chamber increased the proposed budget with about N1.2 trillion. The passage of the bill followed the approval of the report of the Senate Committee …

ALEX Otti, the Governor of Abia State, has expressed sadness at the death of the former Governor of Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, who he described as his “personal lawyer”. Trojan News reports that Akeredolu died on Wednesday, December 27, 2023, at 67. Otti, in a statement issued on Saturday, said …

A former Governor of Zamfara, Ahmed Yerima, on Friday, revealed how he was asked to drop his presidential ambition for Muhammadu Buhari before the 2007 elections. Yerima claimed that ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo begged a former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, to persuade him against running for the election. The former Governor revealed …

CROSS River State Governor, Bassey Otu, on Friday, signed the state N296.985 billion 2024 budget, christened People First budget, into law. The governor, while speaking at the ceremony in his office, said the budget was made up of N180 billion capital expenditure and N116 billion recurrent expenditure. According to him, …

ON Friday, the 2024 Ondo state appropriations bill was signed into law by the state governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa. Newsextra24 recalls that the appropriations bill was earlier passed by the Ondo State House of Assembly. Last Monday, Aiyedatiwa gave the Assembly a sum of N384.5 billion. But the House did approve N395.257 …

LAGOS State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has visited the family of the late Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu. On Friday, Governor Sanwo-Olu paid a visit to the late Ondo Governor’s mansion in Ibadan, Oyo State’s capital, shortly after his colleagues from South West state visited the family of the deceased. …

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday insisted that the seat of the 26 Rivers House of Assembly lawmakers who dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC) remains vacant. The National Legal Adviser, Adeyemi Ajibade, gave this stand shortly after Justice Donatus Okorowo of a Federal High Court, …