The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, says that the Federal Government is committed to the dualisation of the entire section of the trans Sahara route in Nigeria. The minister gave the assurance while declaring open the 65th session of the Trans Saharan Road Liaison Session on Monday in Abuja. Fashola, who was represented at the occasion […]
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The Lagos State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested a driver, Adebiyi Yusuf, for allegedly engaging in illegal oil bunkering and adulteration of diesel. Thirty-two-year old Yusuf was apprehended along with one Paul Ifeakandu on Saturday on the premises of a complex on Jimoh Odutola Street, Surulere, Lagos, where they were reportedly selling the product. […]
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Four persons were killed in Oja Oba Market in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Tuesday after the driver of a truck with number plate, AGL 883 XQ, lost control of the truck and rammed into vehicles and the victims. Several other people were said to have sustained varying degrees of injury in the accident. An unidentified woman and her two children […]
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The police in Lagos have arrested a 25-year-old woman, Joy Okeke, after her boyfriend, Ofoagbu Ekene, reportedly diverted 40,000 litres of diesel worth N7.2m and fled. Okeke was apprehended along with a teacher, Lukman Kelani, who was said to have stood as a guarantor of the fleeing suspect at Northbridge Oil, which employed him as a driver. The company had […]
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No fewer than 37 vehicles loaded with illegally imported bags of rice have been impounded by men of the Ogun State command of Nigeria Customs Service, while three suspects were also arrested in connection with the crime. Briefing journalists at its Idi-Iroko Border Station on Wednesday, the Deputy Comptroller in charge of Enforcement, Mohammed Gagyo, said the vehicles loaded with […]
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Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said he would never take the love and support the people of the state are showing to him for granted. The governor, who said it was not in his character to repay good with evil, added that this had always prompted him to give his best to the people despite the economic rating and […]
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The Senate on Wednesday decried the deplorable state of roads across the country, saying that the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency lacks the capacity to handle the task of road management. The Senate also canvassed the need to invite private investors in road infrastructure through the concession of some federal highways.
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The National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno (Rtd), handed over two aircraft in the Presidential fleet to the Nigerian Air Force. Monguno handed over the two aircraft, Augusta AW101 Very Important Personality Helicopters to the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan Ali, in the presence of the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, his Army counterpart, Lt. Gen. […]
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The Lagos State Government has denied contravening any provision of Federal Highway Regulations while constructing a reinforced concrete dual carriage flyover at Abule-Egba along Lagos-Abeokuta expressway. It provided proofs of compliance to the regulations in in a statement by the Head of Public Affairs, the State’s Ministry of Physical Planning & Urban Development, Mr. Shina Odunuga on Wednesday. Different reports […]
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The Federal Government has asked the Supreme Court to declare the Lagos State Wharf Landing Fees Law No 5 of 2009 unconstitutional and to order the state to refund all the monies collected through the law. The law was passed in 2009 when Babatunde Fashola, now the Minister for Power, Works and Housing, was the state governor. It imposes levies […]
Continue reading »An unidentified person suspected to be a police escort was on Friday crushed to death by a trailer that skidded off the road in Ugep, headquarters of Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River State. The incident, which happened at about 8pm close to the Eckankar Temple along the busy Calabar-Ikom Expressway, was said to have happened after the driver […]
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A police driver has killed two people while attempting to stop an overloaded commercial bus on the Asaba-Ibusa-Ogwashi-Uku Expressway, in the Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State. Several sources, who witnessed the accident, claimed that the driver of the commercial bus and a male suspect, who the police were taking to the state command in Asaba, died on the […]
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