No fewer than 10 persons have been confirmed dead, while three others sustained injuries in a lone crash involving a Mitsubishi bus on Ijebu-Ode–Ibadan Expressway. Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, spokesperson for the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) in Ogun, confirmed the incident in a statement on Sunday. Akinbiyi said the accident occurred at about 8:30…
No fewer than 21 persons lost their lives while three others sustained various degrees of injury in an auto crash at Kasuwar Dogo in Dakatsalle, along the Zaria-Kano Highway. The Kano State FRSC Sector Commander, Mr Muhammed Bature, disclosed this in a statement by the command’s spokesperson, Abdullahi Labaran on Sunday in Kano. Bature said…
The Zamfara State House of Assembly has issued a stern two-week ultimatum to Governor Dauda Lawal Dare, warning of potential impeachment over worsening insecurity and alleged financial mismanagement. Lawmakers raised the alarm during plenary on what they described as the administration’s failure to safeguard lives and property across the state. They cited the rising incidents…
The President of Nsukka Youth General Assembly (NYGA) Comrade Clinton Ogbonna has condemned the recent attack of road users and passersby by masquerades in Nsukka popularly known as Oriokpa. Ogbonna made the condemnation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Nsukka. He was reacting to last week’s remand of…
A prosecution witness, Ismail Lawal, in the trial of former governor of Taraba, Darius Ishaku told an Abuja High Court that he was instructed to collect all allowances due to the defendant. Ishaku and a former Permanent Secretary, Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in the state, Bello Yero, are charged with 15 counts…
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority in a desert testing zone inaugurated the first test flight of an electric air taxi. This was reported by Emirates News Agency (WAM), a partner of TV BRICS. The air taxi represents the first air taxi flight of its kind in the region and it is expected to offer rapid…
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.4 struck near the north-western Turkish city of Bursa on Wednesday, sending tremors across Istanbul, though there were no immediate reports of damage. According to the Istanbul-based Kandilli Observatory, the quake’s epicentre was near the town of Gemlik, roughly 80 kilometers south of Istanbul. The tremor was felt strongly…
At least four people were killed and another 22 injured after a barge overturned in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt’s Health Ministry said Wednesday. The injured have been rushed to local hospitals while rescue is still going on, the ministry said in a statement. The Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources confirmed on Tuesday…
Paramount Global, one of the largest U.S. media and entertainment corporations, agreed on Tuesday to pay 16 million dollars to settle a lawsuit with U.S. President Donald Trump. According to U.S. media reporting the case, Trump sued CBS News, a subsidiary company of Paramount, in a district court in Texas in last October. He alleged…
The Minister of State for Defence, Dr Bello Muhammad Matawalle, has tasked the first batch of Nigeria’s Special Operations Force (SOF) with spearheading the nation’s efforts against insecurity, terrorism, and banditry. Speaking at the closing ceremony of their training at Camp Kabala Jaji in Kaduna on Monday, Matawalle urged the elite unit to demonstrate professionalism,…
