Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has described the fuel tanker fire experienced in Lagos on Thursday evening as one of the greatest tragedies witnessed in the country in recent times. Buhari states this in a statement made available to journalists by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu. The President expressed […]
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has described the fuel tanker fire experienced in Lagos on Thursday evening as one of the greatest tragedies witnessed in the country in recent times. Buhari states this in a statement made available to journalists by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu. The President expressed […]
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria says that only 350 Nigerians are responsible for more than 80 per cent of the N5.4 trillion debt portfolio of the company. The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of AMCON, Mr. Ahmed Kuru, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Wednesday. According to Kuru, […]
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Belgium beat England to top spot in their World Cup group on Thursday after Japan sneaked into the knockout phase on the back of their superior disciplinary record. The 1-0 win for Roberto Martinez’s much-changed team in Kaliningrad earns a second-round tie against Japan while England have a trickier-looking match against Colombia. But the result […]
England will face Colombia in the last 16 of the World Cup and Belgium will play Japan after the Belgians beat England 1-0 in Group G on Thursday. Japan earlier lost 1-0 to Poland but reached the knockout round by virtue of a better disciplinary record than Group H rivals Senegal. Details soon.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday assented to two new bills, the Presidential Liaison to the National Assembly (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, has said. Enang said while briefing State House Correspondents that the new laws were the Medical Residency Training Act, 2018; and the Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (Establishment, Etc) (Amendment) Act, 2018. According to […]
At least nine persons have been confirmed dead in a tanker explosion that occurred on Otedola Bridge outward Lagos on Thursday evening. Four other persons were also confirmed injured. Confirming the number of the casualties, the Federal Road Safety Corps spokesperson, Mr. Bisi Kazeem, added that 54 vehicles were also burnt in the incident. The […]
At least nine persons have been confirmed dead in a tanker explosion that occurred on Otedola Bridge outward Lagos on Thursday evening. Four other persons were also confirmed injured. Confirming the number of the casualties, the Federal Road Safety Corps spokesperson, Mr. Bisi Kazeem, added that 54 vehicles were also burnt in the incident. The […]
At least nine persons have been confirmed dead in a tanker explosion that occurred on Otedola Bridge outward Lagos on Thursday evening. Four other persons were also confirmed injured. Confirming the number of the casualties, the Federal Road Safety Corps spokesperson, Mr. Bisi Kazeem, added that 54 vehicles were also burnt in the incident. The […]
No fewer than nine persons died in a tanker explosion that occurred on Otedola Bridge outward Lagos on Thursday evening. According to the Federal Road Safety Corps spokesperson, Bisi Kazeem, 54 vehicles were burnt in the incident while four persons were injured. He added that rescue operations are still ongoing. Details soon…
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No less than 54 vehicles were confirmed burnt in a tanker fire that trapped road users on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Thursday evening at 1730hrs local time. “The accident occurred when the fuel tanker experienced brake failure,” spokesman of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Bisi Kazeem, said. The affected vehicles comprised the fuel tanker, five buses, […]
No less than 54 vehicles were confirmed burnt in the tanker fire that trapped road users on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Thursday evening. First responders, including officials of the Rapid Response Squad, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Federal Road Safety Corp and fire-fighters, among others, have continued the rescue operations. Our correspondent reports that the […]
A Kenyan court has remanded a 15-year-old girl for allegedly aborting a six-month-old pregnancy. Senior Resident Magistrate, Judicaster Nthuku, also ordered the arrest of the man responsible for the pregnancy of the minor, reports CitizenTV Kenya. The JSS1 pupil is accused of aborting her pregnancy at her Molo Sirwe home in Mogotio Sub County, Baringo. […]
A Nigerian-born British nurse, Josephine Iyamu, who used ‘juju’ to traffic Nigerian prostitutes to Europe, was on Thursday found guilty in the first case of its kind in the United Kingdom. Iyamu, formerly of South London, used a witch doctor to convince her victims they were under her control and exploited them to fund a lavish […]
A Nigerian-born British nurse, Josephine Iyamu, who used ‘juju’ to traffic Nigerian prostitutes to Europe, was on Thursday found guilty in the first case of its kind in the United Kingdom. Iyamu, formerly of South London, used a witch doctor to convince her victims they were under her control and exploited them to fund a lavish […]
England captain Harry Kane was left on the bench as Gareth Southgate and Belgium boss Roberto Martinez made sweeping changes with qualification for the World Cup last 16 already secured. Only goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, John Stones and Ruben Loftus-Cheek kept their places from the England side that thrashed Panama 6-1 on Sunday, with Kane not […]
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is consciously concentrating on completion of abandoned projects than introducing new ones. The minister who said this in Eleme, while inspecting the Enugu-Port Harcourt road rehabilitation and reconstruction project said the government was doing so because of the president’s belief […]
A Toyota Highlander car exploded on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos on Thursday. Based on a video shared on the Rapid Response Squad Twitter handle, policemen and a soldier could be seen trying to force open the bonnet of the car, in a bid to salvage it. While they were able to salvage the […]
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday granted an application by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege seeking to serve contempt proceedings on the Senate and Senate President, Bukola Saraki, through newspaper publication. Omo-Agege approached the court through an ex parte motion seeking to effect service of Form 48 which is notice of contempt; and Form 49, notice […]
A tanker laden with fuel has reportedly caught fire on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, on the bridge near the Otedola Housing Estate. See the photographs, courtesy, Rapid Response Squad:
A fuel tanker caught fire on Otedola Bridge outward Lagos on Thursday evening, with many vehicles trapped in the growing fire. Officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency and Lagos Fire Service have been mobilised, reports the rapid Response Squad via its Twitter handle, @rrslagos767. The RRS said its men were “on ground to […]
A fuel tanker caught fire on Otedola Bridge outward Lagos on Thursday evening, with many vehicles trapped in the growing fire. Officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency and Lagos Fire Service have been mobilised, reports the rapid Response Squad via its Twitter handle, @rrslagos767. The RRS said its men were “on ground to […]
A fuel tanker caught fire on Otedola Bridge outward Lagos on Thursday evening, with many vehicles trapped in the growing fire. Officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency and Lagos Fire Service have been mobilised, reports the rapid Response Squad via its Twitter handle, @rrslagos767. The RRS said its men were “on ground to […]