A Federal High Court in Abuja has again stopped the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC from imposing new drivers’ and vehicles’ licenses on vehicle owners whose papers are still valid. The court also declared as unconstitutional the threat by the commission to start arresting car owners who had not obtained the new driver’s license even…
NURTW Leader Assaults Driver At Ojota Garage
Abu Jamiu, a commercial bus driver at the Ojota New Garage, Ikorodu road, Lagos has alleged that he was assaulted by Ifeolu Adenusi, a leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW suffering multiple machete cuts to the head, wrist, arms and legs in the process. Jamiu alleged that the NURTW leader popularly…
Former NURTW Boss paraded in Lagos for gun possession
Mukaila Lamidi aka Auxila, former chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Oyo State chapter was on Tuesday paraded in Lagos State by men of the state’s Police command. Lamidi was arrested on May 10 by a combined team of police anti robbery squad, following a confessional statement by Abdulazeez Amao, an…
Man Jailed for Stealing Generator
Salisu Ali, a middle aged man, was today convicted for stealing a power generating set by an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court, 28 sitting at Ijaiye Ojokoro Local Council Development Authority, LCDA, Lagos State. Ali was arraigned by the Nigerian Police Force, Ipaja division before O.A. Layinka, Senior Magistrate on Tuesday, on a two-count charge…
Twin Blasts Rock Jos
Two loud explosions have been heard near a crowded market in volatile central Nigerian city of Jos, Plateau State on Tuesday afternoon. The explosion is reported to have killed an undisclosed number of traders and customers because the market was very crowded at the time. Eyewitnesses say the first bomb went off in the market,…
Boko Haram: Guild of Editors Urge Nigerians to be security conscious
The Nigerian Guild of Editors has urged Nigerians to be security conscious and pass relevant information to security agents who are expected to promptly act on such information in order to stop terrorism in the country. This was revealed in the Communiqué issued at the End of the standing committee meeting of the Nigerian Guild…
PISTORIUS: Judge Orders 30-Day Mental Evaluation
Thokozile Masipa, the presiding judge in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial has ruled that the Paralympic star will start a period of psychiatric evaluation at a state institution on Monday, May 26. Judge Masipa said on Tuesday that the double-amputee athlete’s murder trial would be postponed until June 30 while he is observed…
400 Lagos Residents Get Free Malaria Treatment
In order to commemorate the 2014 World Malaria day, Chamagne Foundation, a non governmental organization in partnership with PEER group initiative and a team of volunteers has offered free malaria treatment to not less than 400 residents of Akiode, Ogba and Ojodu area of Lagos State on May 17. The organization also offered the…
Kano Blast Claims More Than 70 Lives
Sunday’s bomb explosion in Kano, Nigeria’s second largest city, has been said to have claimed more than 70 lives. Eye witnesses say the blast, which emanated from a car bomb, occurred at about 10pm, Sunday, May 18 in Sabongari area of kano, an area mostly inhabited by people from the southern part of Nigeria. The…
Fire Guts 120 palm oil shops in Lagos
Not less than 120 shops used in storing palm oil were on Sunday razed by an early morning fire at the popular Daleko market in Mushin, Lagos. Rasak Fadipe, director, Lagos State Fire Service, said that the fire started at about 1am, while firefighters arrived at the scene at about 1.50am, stressing that they were…
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