Tanker
3 Jan
Oil from two ageing and damaged Russian tankers was detected Friday off the coast of Sevastopol, the largest city in Moscow-annexed Crimea, a local official said. The Volgoneft-212 and the Volgoneft-239 were hit by a storm last month in the Kerch Strait linking Crimea to the southern Russian Krasnodar region, about 250 kilometres (155 miles)…
17 Oct
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has confirmed that no life was lost in Wednesday’s tanker explosion in the Ibafo axis of the Lagos -Ibadan Expressway. Mrs Florence Okpe, the FRSC spokesperson in Ogun, said this in a statement in Abeokuta, on Thursday. Okpe said that the incident occured at 1:00 a.m Wednesday and it…
19 Sep
Amid a persistent fuel shortage, tanker drivers in Lagos worsened the situation by blocking a section of the newly constructed Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, leading to severe traffic congestion.
15 Sep
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Anambra says an accident involving two vehicles at Zone-13 occurred on Saturday on Onitsha-Nteje-Awka road in which a male and female adults died. The Sector Commander of the corps, Mrs Joyce Alexander who confirmed the accident to newsmen in Awka on Saturday, said that the accident could be…
8 Sep
No fewer than one life was lost in a fatal accident when a fuel tanker ran over 10 vehicles opposite Kresta Laurel Plaza, Maryland, Lagos State. An eyewitness account reported that the tanker driver was under the influence of alcohol while driving at high speed. He was said to have lost control of the truck,…
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The Police Command in Borno has arrested a suspected drug peddler in possession of 116 wraps of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp. The command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP, Nahum Daso, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Maiduguri. He said that the arrest was made by the command’s Anti-Vice Squad following credible…
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The Chairman of the Media and Publicity Directorate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Presidential Campaign Council during the 2023 election, Mr. John Mayaki, on Saturday, declared that any plot by detractors against the Edo State APC chairman Jarret Tenebe is destined to fail and come to naught. Mayaki spoke in Benin City during a…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has invited the sons of businessman Razaq Okoya, Subomi and Wahab, following a trending video of them allegedly abusing the naira. The duo appeared in the video alongside a police officer who had since been detained by the Nigeria Police Force. “The policeman captured in the recent viral…
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Nigeria’s para powerlifter, Kafilat Almaruf, has been banned for three years by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) following doping violations. The IPC stated that Almaruf’s urine sample, taken out of competition on July 11, 2024, tested positive for an anabolic agent of exogenous origin, thereby breaching the IPC Anti-Doping Code (the Code). “Almaruf’s (GC/C/IRMS) differentiates…
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The Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC), Kaduna State Sector Command has confirmed the death of 10 persons in a road traffic crash on the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway . The Sector Commander, Corps Commander , (CC), Kabir Nadabo, confirmed the accident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Kaduna. Nadabo said the unfortunate road traffic…
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Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom, has dissolved the State Executive Council, an official government statement has said. The statement issued by Mr Enobong Uwah, the Secretary to the State Government, in Uyo on Friday, said the dissolution was with immediate effect. The statement directed the former commissioners and special advisers to hand over to…
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Eight Tokyo university students attacked by a hammer-wielding woman in a classroom are recuperating and none required hospitalisation, their school has said. A 22-year-old student who identified herself as South Korean was arrested on the spot Friday on suspicion of assault, a Tokyo police spokesman told AFP. Several reports had said people were seen bleeding…
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Mr Lawan Abba Wakilbe, the Borno Commissioner for Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation, has advocated urgent intervention to empower freed Boko Haram captives, to enhance their economic and social protection. Wakilbe stated this during a courtesy visit by Hamsatu Allamin, Chief Executive Officer of the Allamin Foundation for Peace, on Friday in Maiduguri. He said…
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President Bola Tinubu on Friday congratulated Sen. John Azuta-Mbata on his election as the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide. Azuta-Mbata, a former senator, represented Rivers East in the Senate from 1999 to 2007, Mr Bayo Onanuga, the President’s spokesman, said in a statement. Azuta-Mbata was elected as president of the preeminent Pan-Igbo socio-cultural group…