Five persons have been confirmed dead in the early morning crash on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in the early hours of Thursday. According to available information, the crashes, on the Lagos outbound side of the Kara Bridge, involved 16 vehicles. Nineteen persons were also injured apart from the one male and four …
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Apapa Gridlock: Lagos Reconstitutes Joint Security Task Force To Ensure Sanity
—Orders Police, Other Security Agencies To Strictly Enforce Traffic Law, Okada Ban …Restates Ban On Industrial Fireworks, Assures Residents Of Peaceful Yuletide Celebration The Lagos State Government has reconstituted the Joint Security Task Force established to tackle Apapa gridlock and other security threats within the axis brought about by the …
Read More »WAEC Unveils Additional WASSCE Diet For Private Candidates
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Approves New Examination For Private Candidates As From 2018,The Nigeria office of the West African Examination Council has unveiled the conduct of an additional diet of West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidate commencing in January, 2018. The council said the …
Read More »Anambra Elections: I-G Orders Arrest Of Politicians, Others Inciting Populace
AWKA- The Inspector General of Police (I-G), Ibrahim Idris, has directed the immediate arrest of politicians or group either inciting or making financial inducement to influence the outcome of Saturday’s Anambra governorship elections. The I-G handed down the directive on Wednesday in Abuja while addressing officers and men of the …
Read More »Ojukwu’s Son, Emeka, Dumps APGA For APC
The first son of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Chief Emeka Ojukwu Jr., today dumped the All Progressives Grand Alliance [APGA] and decamped to the All Progressives Congress [APC].The move took place during the campaign rally of the APC candidate for the Anambra State governorship election, Mr. Tony Nwoye. In his …
Read More »President Robert Mugabe Overthroned
Zimbabwe’s military appeared to be in control of the country Wednesday as generals denied staging a coup but used state television to vow to target “criminals” close to President Robert Mugabe. Mugabe’s decades-long grip on power was dramatically weakened as military vehicles blocked roads outside the parliament in Harare and senior …
Read More »IG explains withdrawal of Obiano’s ADC
The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Mohammed Idris, said the withdrawal of the Aide Camp (ADC) to Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra was to prevent the re-occurrence of past experience. Idris gave the explanation during Election Stakeholders’ Forum organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday in Awka. …
Read More »Forget Biafra, Buhari tells Igbo
In his visit to the South-east since assumption of office, President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday arrived Ebonyi State where he remarked that the visit was a strong expression of his belief in Nigeria’s unity. The president also pledged to improve agriculture, power supply and the provision of infrastructure projects in the region …
Read More »Nnamdi Kanu Embezzled Our Over $40m — IPOB Members Cry Out
Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has raised alarm that their fugitive leader, Mr Nnamdi Kanu allegedly embezzled some funds totaling about $40 million. According the disenchanted members, Mr Kanu privately collected 14 million in Pounds and another 22 million in dollars which he deployed to private use. They …
Read More »Army arrest women for buying baby for N300,000
Two women were on Tuesday arrested by the Special Military Task Force, codenamed Operation Safe Haven, for allegedly trafficking a four-day-old baby girl. The suspects – Doris Egbufurum, 39; and Esther James, 40 – were said to have been arrested with the baby at Babale Gwam checkpoint, a boundary between Plateau and …
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