Two individuals were killed and four others were injured in a collision involving a commercial bus, truck, and motorcycle on Tuesday near the Conoil Bus-Stop on the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway, according to The Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE). Newsmen in Ota were informed by Mrs. Temitope Oseni, the Owode-Ijako Unit Commander of TRACE, who Read More…
Another group of 137 Nigerians who were trapped in Libya have been brought to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). In a statement issued on Tuesday in Lagos, the agency reaffirmed this. The returnees, according to NEMA, boarded an Al Buraq Air Boeing 737-800 and arrived at Ikeja’s Murtala Mohammed International Airport’s Cargo Wing around Read More…
International organisations from all over the world are invited to monitor the general elections in Nigeria in 2023 at the invitation of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu made the call when he welcomed the delegation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Pre-Election Fact Finding Mission to Read More…
Environmentalists have accused certain Nigerians of having a bad attitude and building on water channels and drains, which hastens floods in neighborhoods, cities, and towns. The experts in a survey by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in the South South area also attributed the problem to the ineffective waste management of the government. They Read More…
Unrestrained use of social media and other digital platforms, according to Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, is causing significant issues on a worldwide scale. At a session to welcome guests to the Global Media and Information Literacy Week happening in Abuja, the minister reaffirmed this position. 193 UNESCO member nations are participating Read More…
The Federal Government filed a request with the Court of Appeal in Abuja asking for a stay of the ruling that released Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the illegal Indigenous People of Biafra. On Monday, the three-judge panel presided over by Justice Haruna Tsammani withheld judgment after hearing the arguments of the attorneys. Mr. David Read More…
In light of the security alert issued by the US Embassy on a potential terror assault on Abuja, the Department of State Services (DSS) has urged Nigerians to take the appropriate safety measures and exercise caution. The DSS’s public relations officer, Dr. Peter Afunanya, made the call in a statement on Monday in Abuja. He Read More…
At the rate Nigeria’s patrimony is being pillaged by known and unknown but well connected rats, the Guinness Book of Records will have to be updated to recognise our frog leap to primacy in thievery. Imagine, the Antwerp diamond heist used to be considered one of the largest robberies in history in which loose diamonds, Read More…
On Tuesday, medical professionals in Lagos warned Nigerians not to overlook the warning signs of health issues, particularly lupus, but to promptly seek medical attention. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), often known as lupus, is an inflammatory condition brought on when the immune system assaults its own tissues. Joints, skin, kidneys, blood cells, brain, heart, and Read More…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has been urged by the federal government to drop its objections to the establishment of two new academic unions in Nigeria’s public university system. The call was made by Sen. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, in a statement released on Tuesday in Abuja and signed by Mr. Olajide Read More…
