Five persons were confirmed dead in a ghastly motor accident along the Lokoja-Ajaokuta Road in Kogi State on Thursday. The Federal Road Safety Corps, who confirmed the accident, said the victims — three men and two women — died on the accident spot at Gidan Bassa village.
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The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Boboye Oyeyemi, has asked the contractors on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to close the U-turns on the road. He added that religious organisations along the expressway should submit their programmes till December to enable the contractors to plan ways to ease vehicular movements. The FRSC boss spoke on Thursday during an assessment […]
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The Niger Delta Development Commission has said that it decided to award the contract for the rehabilitation of the Calabar-Itu road to four contractors as a result of the poor state of the road. The Acting Managing Director of NDDC, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, said the state of the road was causing economic hardship to the people. She explained that the […]
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AT least two persons have lost their lives while 20 others sustained various degrees of injuries in two separate auto crashes in Abia State. The first crash involved a Mazda L300 bus with Registration Number XT 215 WER and with a Toyota Hilux van with Registration Number KSF 761 BC along Ubakala axis of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway. According to […]
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The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Boboye Oyeyemi, has announced that enforcement of the speed limiters on commercial vehicles will commence nationwide on October 1, 2016. Oyeyemi said this on Wednesday in Abuja during a stakeholders’ meeting with relevant government agencies and transport unions.
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The Federal Government has paid about N700bn out of the N2.1tn liabilities for the construction of 206 road projects across the country, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said. Although the minister was not specific if it was the present government that paid the sum, he, however, explained that out of the N300bn already released by […]
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It has been an eventful few days for Mohammad Basheer Abdul Khadar, an Indian living in Dubai. In the space of a week, he survived a crash landing at Dubai airport then won $1m in a lottery organised by the airport’s duty free operator, Gulf News reported. The 62-year-old was flying home from holidays with family in India when the Boeing […]
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At least 29 cattle were drowned on Tuesday following a heavy downpour that washed away several roads in Jos East Local Government Area of Plateau State. Farmlands and bridges linking the people of the area to the headquarters of the local government were not spared by the rainfall that lasted for several hours.
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It is mandatory for everybody to have licence to carry firearms and to drive a motor vehicle because both are deadly equipment. Both are projectiles that kill if used willfully or when mishandled, that is the reason people required to use them, said Mr. Derek, a lead trainer with Ford Motor Company.
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Julius Berger, the construction company handling the rehabilitation of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, has stated that the traffic gridlock on the expressway will not ease up till November. The construction firm’s manager, West Division, Mr. Wolfgang Loesser, spoke to the press when he led his team on a courtesy visit to the Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun. Leosser said the […]
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Commercial drivers in Abia State have called on Governor Okezie Ikpeazu to stop the alleged illegal N1,000.00 driving test levy collected by the Board of Internal Revenue. The aggrieved commercial drivers said the amount was usually taken from them while trying to renew their driver’s licence.
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Senator Muhammad Ndume, the Senate Leader, said on Monday that 63 out of the 103 trucks had yet to be delivered four months after approval by the Presidency. Ndume, who represents Borno South at the National Assembly, told newsmen in Maiduguri that only 53 trucks had been delivered. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Presidency approved the […]
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