The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says it arrested 167, 783 traffic offenders between July and September 2020. The Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO), Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM) Bisi Kazeem, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. Kazeem said the offenders were...
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A 48-year-old Bus Rapid Transit, (BRT) driver, Bohan Abiodun, on Monday appeared in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for alleged reckless driving and causing the death of three pedestrians. The police charged Abiodun, whose residential address was not given with reckless driving and manslaughter. The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty...
The Defence Headquarters says the Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole, has neutralised several terrorists of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) in airstrikes at Tumbun Allura in Borno. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement on Monday, said the airstrikes also...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi No fewer than five persons were, on Saturday night, killed in a fatal crash that occurred at Gwarangah village on the Bar – Bogoro road in Bauchi State.Five other people also sustained varying degrees of injuries in the accident.The accident occurred at Bar Arewa village of...
Seventeen bodies have been unearthed in newly found mass graves in western Libya’s Tarhuna region, the missing persons authority said Saturday. It takes the total exhumed in recent months to 112. The graves are located in Tarhuna, where eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar’s forces launched an aborted assault last year...
Former Barcelona and Inter Milan striker Samuel Eto’o is in stable condition after he was involved in a road accident around Nkongsamba-Douala road in Cameroon. Eto’o was said to be returning from a wedding celebration when his car was hit by a public transport bus on Sunday morning. Although...
With the prevailing harsh economic situation in the country, a state of depression (or is it a recession) that has been designed by yet to be established architects, coupled with the EndSARS protest by the youth which locked the nation’s socioeconomic activities for close to two weeks but enjoyed...
The 50-year-old Police Inspector who went missing after going to check his plot of land at Asuboi in the Ayensuano District of the Eastern Region of Ghana, has been found dead floating on a river close to his land. The deceased inspector, Charles Adamu, until his death was posted...
Nigerians have been admonished to refrain from their nonchalant attitude towards the safety protocols of COVID-19 issued by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Ven. Ifeanyi Akunna, the Vicar of Anglican Church of the Epiphany, Area 11, Garki, Abuja, gave the warning on Sunday, while delivering a sermon...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) urged the Federal Government to leave the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System (IPPIS) as condition to call off its ongoing strike in the country. Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU President said this in a statement made available on Sunday in Abuja that the...
From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Gov. Zulum led a delegation of leaders from the North East region on a visit to His Excellency, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to commiserate with the people of Lagos and their Governor over the recent violence destruction of both the public and private properties. He...
· Says digital age offers greater revenue-earning potential The Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has underscored the centrality of economic diversification and ethical leadership at all levels of government as panacea to the current economic headwinds in Nigeria. Danbatta stated this when...
First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider, will host an SME webinar themed “Rebuilding your Business” by 10am on Tuesday, 10 November 2020 via Zoom meetings. The event is organised in collaboration with FBN Insurance Brokers and FBN Quest with its discussants including:...
Joe Biden is now projected to have 284 Electoral College votes, the Associated Press (AP) news agency said on Saturday, above the threshold needed to clinch the hard-fought United States presidential election. The president-elect was projected to have surpassed the 270 electoral vote-threshold after the AP called Pennsylvania in his...
Nigderia’s Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the deployment of legitimate force to protect lives and property of citizens, including police officers. The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Mr Frank Mba, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. Adamu said the protection must...
Some business tycoons in Anambra State have commenced the reconstruction of damaged police facilities in some communities and Local Government Areas (LGAs) in the state. The business magnates, who prefer to remain anonymous, are renowned manufacturers, traders, community leaders, and a businesswoman. PRNigeria gathered that the affected police facilities...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Three trailers of charcoal worth millions of Naira have been confiscated by the Bauchi State Environmental Protection Agency (BASEPA). The Commissioner of Housing and Environment, Hon. Hamisu Shira, who disclosed this while pararding the suspects and the charcoal before journalists on Friday at the...