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Eight Persons Dead, Six Injured In Bus-Tanker Collision In Anambra

Eight Persons Confirmed Dead, Six Injured In Tanker-Bus Collision In Anambra
Eight people have been killed and six injured in a sad road accident at Ukpo Junction along the Nteje-Awka Road in Anambra State, according to the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Anambra Sector Command. On Monday in Awka, the Sector Commander, Mrs. Joyce Alexander, gave reporters confirmation of the occurrence. According to Alexander, a Toyota Hiace bus with registration number EKP375XM and a Mack tanker without a registration number were involved in the Sunday night collision. According to Alexander, initial inquiries and eyewitness reports suggested that the bus was traveling from Abakaliki to Onitsha at the time of the collision.Read More

Nigerian Supreme Court Judges Lament Poor Working Conditions, Write Protest Letter To Chief Justice, Tanko Muhammad

Justice Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed
Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria have protested to the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, over poor welfare packages which they claimed have hindered theirRead More

Governor Ikpeazu Orders Herders, Others To Vacate Abia Forests, Says He Can’t Guarantee Their Safety

Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu
Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, Sunday, directed all herders, settlers and those residing inside the forests around Umunneochi Local Council Area to vacate those places immediately. This directive was containedRead More

National Assembly Staff Embark On Indefinite Strike

National Assembly
The Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) and National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) have resolved to embark on an indefinite strike over the failure of the National Assembly Management (NASS)Read More

Power Minister: Nigeria’s Power Generation Cannot Support Economic Growth

Minister of Power, Mr. Abubakar Aliyu
The Minister of Power, Mr. Abubakar Aliyu, yesterday admitted that Nigeria’s current electricity generation was incapable of powering the economy of over 200 million Nigerians. Aliyu, who spoke during theRead More

Buhari: Nigeria Ready To Host World Tourism Confab By Nov

President Muhammadu Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed the readiness of Nigeria to host the first-ever Global Conference on Tourism, Culture and the Creative Industry in November this year. Speaking yesterday, during aRead More

Report: Growing Inflation Eroding Purchasing Power Of Nigerians

National Bureau of Statistics
Consumer spending now mostly limited to household essentials Most Nigerians are no longer be able to afford major expenditure on discretionary or non-essential goods and services as inflation has continuedRead More

Suspected Stowaway Crushed At Lagos Airport Runway

Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN)
There is strong suspicion that the mangled body found on the international runway of the Murtala Muhammed Airport Lagos, was that of a stowaway that fell off the wheel-well ofRead More

CP: We’re After Foreigners Operating Okada In Lagos

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State with police officers
The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Abiodun Alabi, has said that the command is after foreigners operating as commercial motorcyclists in the state. Alabi disclosed this on Friday inRead More

Insecurity: IPOB Advises Kumuyi To Cancel Planned Crusade In South-east

Biafra
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB has advised the General Overseer of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor William Kumuyi, to cancel the planned crusade in Abia State citing securityRead More

FG: $60bn Needed To Aid Access To Reliable Electricity, Clean Cooking Facilities In Eight Years

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva
Says PIA capable of provoking, triggering commercial interests, investments in gas utilisation The federal government yesterday stated that Sub-Saharan Africa could require as much as $60 billion to access reliableRead More