There was confusion on Agbe Road in the Abule Egba area of Lagos State on Wednesday after a suspected kidnapper snatched a girl from her mother and attempted to escape with her on a motorcycle. Our correspondent learnt that the mother of the two-year-old, while raising the alarm that her daughter was abducted by the kidnapper, chased the motorcycle. It […]
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Eleven (11) lives were lost on Thursday after a commercial bus with 14 passengers on board went up in flames on the Otedola Bridge in the Berger area of Lagos. It was learnt that the deceased comprised eight males and three females while three persons were rescued from the wreckage alive. It was reliably gathered that the bus was at top speed […]
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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has captured about 1,087 driving schools in its standardisation programme with 611 meeting minimum requirements for operation. Corps Marshal of FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi disclosed at an interactive session with representatives of the driving school associations in Abuja, that 1,623 driving school instructors have been registered on the Corps’ portal with 129,198 trainee drivers, while […]
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The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, said Monday that the Abuja-Kaduna rail project would be inaugurated on July 26 at Idu, Abuja. Amaechi made this known in an interview with journalists in Abuja.
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Eko Atlantic City, a unique, innovative development project on the coast of Lagos, has reached advanced stages in the first five million square metres of the project, according to Chagoury Group, the development project developer. The city not only boasts of independent power and water supply, seamless communications network, but also an 8-lane arterial road over 1,500 metres long. This […]
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The Oluwo of Iwo land, Oba AbdulRasheed Akanbi, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari, governors of the 36 states and members of the National Assembly to start using vehicles assembled in Nigeria. Oluwo, who said this in an interview with our correspondent in Osogbo on Tuesday, said this would help the local automobile companies and boost the nation’s ailing economy.
Continue reading »An Ogudu Magistrates’ Court has remanded a 48-year-old nurse in Kirikiri Prisons for allegedly failing to pay a commercial bus owned by the Lagos State Government the correct fare. The nurse, Oduwole Taiwo, who lives at Lucky Fiber Road, Ikorodu, was said to have boarded the bus from Ikorodu to Ojota at about 4.15 p.m. A journey which costs N100 […]
Continue reading »Aside the inconveniences experienced by air passengers on account of delayed or canceled flights since the week began, airline operators are counting their loses as the fuel scarcity continue to bite harder grounding at least two in every three flight operations nationwide. The airlines that have been struggling to remain in business due to economic crunch are now in dire […]
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A Press Release by the office of the Army Public Relations has confirmed the interception of a fuel-laden truck at a security checkpoint on the outskirts of Maiduguri, on its way to make delivery to the Boko Haram terrorists. The Press Release signed by the Acting Director of Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman and titled “Troops nab suspected […]
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The new Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority, Ms Hadiza Bala Usman, has said that the new management will strive for enhanced operational efficiency for improved revenue generation and inflows into national treasury. Usman stated this at the handover ceremony between her and the former Managing Director of NPA, Malam Habib Abdullahi, on Monday in Lagos.
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Tragedy struck on Saturday at Wasimi Village on the old Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway after two women lost their lives, while four others were injured in a road accident. Also, seven persons died on Sunday at Fidiwo, Ogun State end of the Lagos-Ibadan Express in a separate road accident. The Saturday accident involved a Nissan saloon car with number plate, SZ 171 […]
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The Rivers State Police Command has provided details about how a bullion van driver absconded with N100m in Port Harcourt. The unidentified driver and the bullion van containing the cash had been reported missing on Friday after arriving in Port Harcourt from Aba to deliver cash to some banks. The state Deputy Police Commissioner in charge of Administration, Mr. Uche […]
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