To improve access to new vehicles and promote the patronage of locally assembled vehicles, the Federal Government, through the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC) has announced plans to unveil a credit purchase scheme for Nigerians to purchase such vehicles. According to the Director, Policy and Planning, Luqman Mamudu, the council is contributing about N7.5 billion interest free rates […]
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The Federal Road Safety Corps says it is taking steps to enforce a ban on the use of food-based and substandard sealing pastes used by technicians to fix tyres in the country. This, it said, was part of measure to prevent the loss of lives as a result of tyre blowouts. In a statement by its Head, Media Relations and […]
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Tragedy struck on Thursday at the Onipanu end of the Ikorodu Expressway in Lagos State after a Toyota Camry crashed into a truck Our correspondent learnt that although the car driver escaped, the ‘motor boy’ of the truck was crushed to death. It took rescue agencies hours before the trapped remains of the victim could be removed from the wreckage.
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Four World Bank consultants have drowned in Egbe River in Egbe community of Gbonyin Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The four were said to be workers on a World Bank assessment mission to the river and had commenced work on Tuesday night. They were said to have come from the Development Dams and Irrigation Schemes, Kaduna State and had […]
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A 66-year-old man, Mr. John Ekue, has committed suicide in the Mende area of Maryland, Lagos State. Ekue was reported to have used a rope to hang himself by the rod of a ceiling fan in his apartment on Oki Lane around 8pm on Monday.
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As part of efforts to ease movement in the state capital, the multi-billion Naira Calabar Light rail project will soon be inaugurated by President Muhammadu Buhari. The 12-car monorail system, when fully operational, will use an Intamin P8 electric powered passenger shuttle train to convey passengers from Tinapa Resort across Lake Tinapa to Calabar International Conference Centre.
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One person was on Wednesday feared dead when a tanker laden with fuel exploded at Upper Mission Junction on the Benin-Auchi Expressway, in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State. The explosion, which was said to have occurred at about 7am, left no fewer than four persons injured. It was also gathered that the fire destroyed property worth millions of […]
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The Akwa Ibom Police Command has arrested three suspected pipeline vandals from Eket Local Government Area of the State. The state Police Commissioner, Murtala Mani, said that the suspects were arrested in a hotel with improvised explosive devices capable of destroying high pressure oil pipelines. Mani said that other items recovered from the suspects included a battery for igniting explosion, […]
Continue reading »The Word of Faith Christian Centre, Kano, has denied reports that a member of its church, Gloria Okocha, accidentally crushed a fellow member, Remi Nwokolor, to death. The victim, who was rushed to the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, was pronounced dead at the hospital. PUNCH had reported that the driver was trying to drive out of the church premises when […]
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Eleven South African military officials were killed on Friday when the bus transporting them fell down an embankment. A report from Johannesburg said that a total of 42 military officials were travelling in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park in centrally located Free State province. It said that the officers were on their way to a cultural centre inside the […]
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The Lagos State Government has commenced preparations for the construction of Oworonshoki community’s second access road. The state government had, a few months ago, said it would construct 114 standard access roads across the state before the end of 2016. At the demolition of an over 30-year old building, which was said to have been a major impediment to the […]
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Council chairmen in Cross River State on Saturday moaned over the abandoned state of federal roads, with a call to the Federal Government to urgently fix the roads in order to assuage the suffering of motorists. The deplorable state of Calabar-Itu, Calabar-Ikom-Ogoja, Calabar-Oban and Calabar-Ikang roads had over the years been a concern for motorists going through them.
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