The Police in Jigawa on Tuesday arrested a 20-year-old teacher for allegedly burning a Volkswagen Bus belonging to a company in Dutse Local Government Area of the state. The police Spokesman, Mr Jinjiri Abdu, who confirmed the arrest, said the suspect, (Names withheld), a junior secondary school teacher, allegedly used petrol and matches and set the bus ablaze. He explained […]
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The Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, has deployed 25,000 personnel and 869 vehicles for a special patrol to enhance road safety during the forthcoming Easter celebrations. The deployment includes 267 motorcycles, 106 ambulances and 22 tow trucks for the special patrol exercise scheduled to run from April 13 to April 18. The spokesperson of the FRSC, Bisi Kazeem, said in […]
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A truck belonging to Dangote Cement Company on Tuesday caused the death of three persons, while driving against traffic along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The Commander of the Traffic Compliance and Enlightenment Corps, TRACE, Seni Ogunyemi, who confirmed the accident said the registration number of the truck is DTF 118XA. He said the truck driver, who was driving on the wrong side […]
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The Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Saleh Dunoma, is to appear before a police team investigating the Tuesday fire that gutted some offices at the FAAN headquarters in Lagos. Dunoma made the disclosure while briefing newsmen after inspecting the damage caused by the fire which affected some offices at the headquarters earlier in the day. […]
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The Chairman, Board of Nigeria Railway Corporation, Alhaji Usman Abubakar, says construction of Lagos-Ibadan standard rail gauge will be completed in December 2018 and start operation in January 2019. Abubakar said this during his official visit to the Nigeria Railway Corporation Western District, Ibadan on Tuesday. The chairman said the project will not be abandoned this time around as the […]
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The enforcement was confirmed when officials of the Environmental Sanitation Corps Agency (LASECORPS) arrested six motorists at Ikeja, along end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway for allegedly buying goods in the traffic. The offenders’ vehicles, a Honda Accent, Hiace, Toyota Hilux, Toyota Sienna, taxi cab and commercial bus, were also impounded by the agency. Four passengers and nine hawkers were also […]
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Experts fret over petroleum industry outlook To douse tension in the oil-rich Niger Delta, the Federal Government plans to award to indigenes of the region marginal fields’ oil blocks abandoned by the oil majors as being not commercially viable. The plan is in line with the government’s larger objective of reducing major incidents of restiveness to about 90 per cent […]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on Tuesday disclosed that its Mosimi Depot in Ogun State, has come back into operation a year after pipeline vandals forced it to go offline, and is now loading petroleum products for onward distribution to other parts of the country. The corporation stated that the development would boost supply and distribution of petroleum products […]
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A baby was delivered onboard a Turkish Airlines Conakry-Ouagadougou flight on Monday. The birth, according to the airline, was celebrated by passengers and crew. Turkish Airlines’ flight TK538 Conakry-Ouagadougou was already airborne before the birth took place. According to a statement from Turkish Airlines, the cabin crew noticed that a female passenger named Nafi Diaby, a 28-week-old pregnant traveller flying […]
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Workers of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) were nearly asphyxiated this morning when thick smoke emanating from serious fire from one part of the headquarters of the agency engulfed the whole offices and forced the workers to scamper for safety. When called, one of the officers from Public Affairs Department he responded, “Please I can’t talk now. This […]
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Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, has ordered the recall of the Corps Rivers Sector Commander, Mr Ayodele Kumapayi, for cutting the hair of some female personnel. In an SMS to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday, Spokesman of the Corps, Mr Bisi Kazeem, said other officers concerned were also recalled. Photos […]
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A British Airways’ (BA) survey of 2,000 travelling-respondents from 10 countries showed that 41 per cent of Nigerian travellers considered travel as an important thing to achieve this year for relaxation and for other ventures. “Nigerians are less inclined to consider travel an essential objective compared to other nationalities. Even so, 41per cent of Nigerians and 36 per cent of […]
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