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There was mild pandemonium at University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom after the Vice President, Blessing Jaja, released a memo about the immediate appointment of 20 special aides. Her justification for this is to enable the smooth running of the activities of the office of the vice president of the SUG. …

Nigeria is not in short supply of true leaders. The country’s diversity and generous human resources offer a limitless pool of talents, skills, abilities and character. Nigeria is blessed with all that a nation needs to be a lodestar in the galaxy of nations. But why do misfits end up …

The Ekiti State High Court has ordered that a student activist, Moyinoluwa Olowoyo, be remanded at the Police Headquarters over his participation in #EndSARS protest last year. The father of the activist, Mr Olowoyo told Newsextra24 on Wednesday that the court ordered his son to be remanded till Friday. “After …

As Nigeria’s two major political parties struggle to shake off the ensuing schism over power rotation in 2023, a former lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani has stated that the latest quest by the North to retain power was due to the fear that a southern president could accelerate break-up of the …

Abia State government has abandoned its proposed airport project over its viability under the present economy of the state. Governor Okezie Ikpeazu stated this when he spoke to newsmen during a zoom meeting, adding that the government would not embark on it because other states in the South East zone …

Aloy Ejimakor, counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), says “it is unnatural to negotiate with a man in chains”. Ejimakor, who is among the lawyers defending Kanu against the Nigerian federal government, advised the nation’s authorities to ‘stop resisting every effort being made …

The federal government has earmarked N134 billion for the National Assembly in the 2022 budget. This is contained in the 2022 budget of N16.3 billion presented to the National Assembly President Muhammadu Buhari last Thursday. Although details of the 2022 Appropriation bill were not immediately made public, a copy of …

Muhammad Hafiz Bayero, a bosom friend of Bello El-Rufai, eldest son of the Governor of Kaduna State, is the administrator of Kaduna Capital Territory. The territory is one of the three that came into existence under the administration of the incumbent governor of the state. While announcing the appointment of …

Chairman, Nigeria Governors Forum, Governor Kayode Fayemi, has stressed that south west governors remain resolute in their demand for multilevel policing arrangements to address the present ineffective federal policing structure. According to Fayemi, the establishment of Amotekun is only a mini-response by governors of the South-West governors to the yearning …

WHO would have imagined that, in less than six years, people will be slaughtered like rams in the South east region of Nigeria, the way Boko Haram terrorists and “bandits” operate in the North? Who would have imagined this? What is this telling us? Every human being or society has …