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Ekiti State Government on Monday urged traditional rulers in the state to make land available to promote agricultural development. Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Olabode Adetoyi, said the Ero Dam project resuscitated by the state government in the Moba Local Government had capacity to improve and promote irrigation system in agriculture …

Reno Omokri stated via his Instagram handle that the invention of Nigerian Digital Currency, e-Naira, is useless, Newsextra24 reports. He stated that Nigerians need good governance from the president in the form of ‘e-Buhari’, to provide Nigerians with good schools, quality roads, electricity instead of a digital currency. He wrote; …

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers says the state is not fighting the Federal Government or any of its agencies over the collection of Value Added Tax as being insinuated in some quarters. Speaking on Sunday in Abuja at a public lecture entitled, “Taxing Powers in a Federal System”, to mark …

Payment of salaries by about 33 states of the federation is uncertain as the decision of the federal government to debit local government accounts in commencement of a payment of $418 million (N172 billion) to private consultants on Paris Cub refund has pitched states and local governments against it (FG). …

The Adamawa State Governor, Alhaji Ahmadu Fintiri has completed the first flyover in the history of the State. This was revealed when the flyover located in the heart of the city was opened up to motorists. The flyover unarguably is the first of its kind in Adamawa(Old Gongola State) and …

*Anambra’21: Drums roll as Orumba group in Enugu endorse Dr. Maduka, says he outclassed other contestants* Accord Party governorship hopeful, Dr. Godwin Maduka, Okosisi Orumba was given a resounding welcome amidst cultural fiesta as Orumba North and south hosted the giant in Enugu. In a town hall meeting yesterday in …

Plans by the Olu of Ilaro and Paramount Ruler of Yewaland, Oba Kehinde Olugbenle, to install the Lagos West Senator, Olamilekan Adeola, as the Aremo Oba of Yewaland has been generating cold war among indigenes of Ogun State. The Ogun indigenes rejected the planned installation on the grounds that Sen. …

Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has said that the Southeast governors, Ohaneze Ndigbo and other important persons in the zone are making efforts for Nnamdi Kanu to be released from detention as soon as possible, Newsextra24 reports. Umahi said this during the 2021 harvest, thanksgiving and bazaar of the …

The Edo State Judiciary has denied the rumour presently making the round in the state that one of its judges restrained the National Vice Chairman, South-South, People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Dan Osi Orbih, a member of the House of Representatives, Dr Ogbeide Ihama & others from participating in the …

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, on Sunday, kicked against the one-week sit-at-home declared by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Newsextra24 reported that the pro-Biafra group had threatened a one-week sit-at-home if their leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, was not released forthwith. The declaration, targeted at the November 6 Anambra election, has …