Commuters stranded as floods cut off Agbarho/Ughelli road
THE three days heavy downpour has caused severe flooding of parts of the Agbarho/Ughelli Road in Ughelli North Area Area of Delta State, cutting off parts of the road, particularly around the Agbarho Police Station, making the route difficult and the section nearly impossible to pass.
Zirkusu: Military’s sacrifice for Nigeria unquantifiable —UAG
A civil society organization, the Unity Advocacy Group has described as unquantifiable the sacrifices been made by the Armed Forces of Nigeria to secure the country. The group stated this in a press release in reaction to the death of General Dzarma Zirkusu and four soldiers recently killed by terrorists of the Islamic State West […]
4 dead, 5 injured in another Lagos building collapse
Four people have died while five others were injured when a one-storey building under construction collapsed on Wednesday at Flourmill Estate, Magbon, near Badagry, Lagos State. A witness, Oluwagbenga Ogundele, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the building collapsed on the nine construction workers on site around 3 p.m. Ogundele, who works as […]
Ogere tanker inferno: We’ll hold the contractor handling road project responsible — Abiodun
Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun says the contractor handling the Lagos-Ibadan expressway would be held accountable for his failure to provide safety signs on the road which had in recent times led to the unfortunate but preventable loss of lives and carnage of the country’s busiest route
Man arraigned for alleged theft of N38m containers
A 41-year-old employee, Matthew Animashaun, charged with stealing six empty containers valued at N38 million, on Wednesday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court. The defendant was arraigned before Magistrate O.I Adelaja on a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing. Animashaun, however, pleaded not guilty, and was admitted to bail in the sum of N500,000 with […]
SEC used N8bn of N9bn revenue to service staff — SENATE
THE Senate, on Wednesday, took a swipe at the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, for spending N8 billion to service its staff out of the N9 billion it generates every year.
