33 months unpaid rent threatens war against oil bunkering
By Jimitota Onoyume, Assistant News Editor The war against illegal oil bunkering in the Niger Delta may be facing an unlikely, yet potent, enemy from a massive backlog of unpaid rent for House boats used to combat illegal bunkering activities and related maritime crimes The Nigerian Army and three indigenous houseboat contractors in the Niger […]
My wife threatened to kill my first wife, children, Man tells court
A 59-year-old surveyor, Adeoye Akintoye, on Monday begged a Customary Court in Igando, Lagos to dissolve his marriage to Modupe, on the grounds that she threatened to kill his first wife and children. “When we met, I told her I had a wife and four children, along the line, she got pregnant for me. “She […]
Double tragedies in Alimosho as NNPC pipeline explodes, high cable tension mast collapses
By Olasunkanmi Akoni The Alimosho area of Lagos State in the early hours of Christmas Eve, Friday, has been thrown into confusion and chaos, following NNPC pipeline explosion as a due to activities of vandals as well as a 33kva fallen high cable tension mast at pipeline bus stop along LASU Road. As a result […]
Five killed in Ondo cult clash
A bloody clash between rival cult groups in lgbokoda, llaje council area of Ondo has claimed the lives of five persons.
Yelutide: FRSC assures free flow of traffic in Nsukka town
Mrs Jecinta Offor, the Commandant, Nsukka Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), on Friday said that she has deployed officers to strategic locations in Nsukka town to ensure free flow of traffic during the yuletide. Offor said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday, while monitoring officers […]
Ebonyi Fire Service records 102 incidents
The Ebonyi Fire Service said on Friday that it recorded 102 fire outbreaks including three deaths between January and November 2021. The Director of Fire Service, Mr Raphael Ibiam, gave the figure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abakaliki. Ibiam identified bush burning as a major cause of the fire […]
