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Four persons were on Monday confirmed dead and three others sustained varying degrees of injuries when a luxury bus rammed into a truck on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway along the Abeokuta, Ogun State axis. Public Education Officer of the State Sector of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Florence Okpe, who confirmed the accident in a statement, attributed the incident to …

The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Prof. Wasiu Adeyemo, has urged new medical doctors from the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) to shun ‘japa’ syndrome and practise in the country. Adeyemo gave the charge at the induction ceremony of 144 medical graduands of the College of Health Sciences in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on …

  Up to 107 former Senators from the All Progressives Congress (APC) have boosted the support base of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, describing the allegation of certificate forgery as the handiwork of the opposition. The former senators expressed optimism that Tinubu would emerge victorious like former President of the United States, Barack Obama, and current Prime Minister of India, Narendra …

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, on Thursday, advised presidential candidates who lost at Wednesday’s ruling of the Presidential Elections Petition Court (PEPC) to accept the verdict instead of going for appeal at the Supreme Court. Governor Bello, who gave the advice while fielding questions from State House reporters after a meeting with Vice President Shettima at the Presidential Villa, Abuja …

Nigeria-born English National League side Oldham Athletic’s U19s Coach, Chuks Akuneto, has posited that Super Eagles must win their remainder matches in the Group C of the 2026 FIFA World Cup African qualifiers to stand a chance of earning a spot in the USA/Canada/Mexico showpiece, Completesports.com reports. One-all draw with Bafana Bafana of South Africa Friday in Uyo appears to …

In the past 10 years, no fewer than 25,000 persons have been reported missing in Nigeria, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday. The Public Relations Officer of ICRC Nigeria, Aliyu Dawobe, who disclosed this in an interview with journalists in Abuja, said the missing people were those whose relatives reported and registered their cases …

The three tiers of government on Wednesday shared the sum of N906.955 billion as revenue allocation for October. This is contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting in Asaba, Delta State. The distributable revenue comprised statutory revenue of N305.070 billion, Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue of N323.446 billion, and Electronic Money …

The FCT Police Command has disagreed with a report on killings and abductions in the territory, insisting that the figures were outrageous, inaccurate, and misleading.This may not be unconnected with a story published in a national newspaper (not Blueprint) indicating that 12 people were killed, while 139 were abducted within the FCT in the last six months.Blueprint reports that there …

The State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller on Monday morning revealed that nine Americans have died in the bloodshed in Israel, and more may yet be missing after a weekend offensive from Gaza by Hamas. “There are reports of Americans who are unaccounted for,” he said. “We continue to work to confirm that number and try to locate those who are …

The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has reported that the 11 electricity distribution companies (DisCos) in the country generated N247.09 billion as revenue in the first quarter of this year, representing 68.75 per cent out of the N359.38 billion billed the customers. The NERC, in its just released ‘Q1 2023 Electricity Report’, also disclosed that the DisCos installed a total …