Mar 6, 2020 – Top News Magazines.

Lagos-Ibadan rail suspended due to coronavirus outbreak -Amaechi

Mar 6, 2020 topnews

Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, the ongoing construction work on the Lagos-Ibadan rail project has been put on hold, the Federal Government declared on Thursday. Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, disclosed this during a live television programme on African Independent Television monitored in Abuja. The minister said the employees of the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, the contractor handling the project, were still in China on the orders of the government of the Asian nation. He said, “If not for coronavirus we would have finished the Lagos-Ibadan rail,…

Kano high court upturns Oshiomhole’s suspension

Mar 6, 2020 topnews

The suspension of Adams Oshiomhole as a member of the All Progressives Congress, has been voided by Justice A. Lewis-Allagoa, sitting at the Federal High Court in Kano on Thursday. He also held that the Independent National Electoral Commission should not recognise anybody, except Oshiomhole, as the APC national chairman. Justice Lewis-Allagoa’s ruling came a day after Justice Danlami Senchi of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Jabi, made an order suspending Oshiomhole as the national chairman of the APC. Justice Senchi had premised his order suspending Oshiomhole…

Monarch’s wife raped as bandits attack Benue community again

Mar 6, 2020 topnews

Bandits suspected to be Fulani herdsmen in the early hours of Thursday attacked the Mbanyiar community in the Guma Local Government Area of Benue State and raped three women including the district head’s wife. According to a native of the community, who simply identified himself as Terka, the suspected herdsmen headed straight to the residence of the community head and attacked the household. The herdsmen allegedly raped the traditional ruler’s wife and two of his in-laws and destroyed crops stored in the barn. Confirming the attack on his community, the…