Fourteen people on Sunday night escaped death in three separate motor accidents in Anambra state. One of the accidents occurred at Umuokpu, along Onitsha-Awka Old Road, involving two vehicles. The others, which were lone accidents, occurred near a Police check point at Okija, along Ihiala-Owerri expressway and Uga Roundabout, Aguata Local Government Area of the State respectively, The Nation reports. A baby and four others sustained varying degrees of injuries in the crashes but no life was lost. …
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The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA ) has announced the reduction of the pump price of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) to N121.50 from N123 per litre. The PPPRA in its memo titled “A.4/9/017/C.2/IV/701 31“, also disclosed that the ex-depot price band is now N100. 13 and N108. 13 per litre while ex-depot for collection is N108. 78 and N111.78 per litre for the month of June. Marketers were directed to comply and operate within the indicative prices. The …
The Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello, has ordered a two-week lockdown on Kabba Bunu local government area after two cases of COVID19 were recorded in the area by the NCDC. In a statement released today, the state governor said the lockdown is to enable health workers to carry out contact tracing of the two cases. The lockdown is to take effect from tomorrow June 2. Following the alleged and controversial COVID-19 index case in Kogi State, Governor Yahaya Bello in a …
Nigerians have taken to social media to react to former Governor of Lagos and All Progressies Congress (APC) Chieftain, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s meeting with some APC Governors over the party crisis in Edo state on Sunday May 31. The closed door meeting which was held at the State House in Marina, Lagos was attended by chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State, Governors Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo), Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos), Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano), Godwin Obaseki (Edo), Simon Lalong (Plateau), Abdullahi …
A man has lost his eye after being struck in the face by a gas canister thrown by a police while he was protesting George Floyd’s murder. The man, who has been identified as Balin Brake, 21, was taking part in downtown demonstrations when he was hit by a projectile gas canister. The canister ruptured his eye and left him bleeding. Fort Wayne Police on Sunday evening said the injury was incidental and not the result of a …
A Nigerian man claiming to be the ex-boyfriend of the new wife of the Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs, Hameed Alli, Zainab Abdullahi Yahaya, has filed a lawsuit against her in which he is demanding a refund of all the money he claims to have spent on her while they were dating. Hameed and Zainab had a low key wedding in Kano over the weekend. According to the court papers making the rounds on social media, the man identified as …