Oct 10, 2024 – Top News Magazines.

Covenant University emerges best Nigerian university in 2024 [Full list]

Oct 10, 2024 topnews

A private University in Nigeria, Covenant University (CU), has been ranked as the country’s top university in the 2024 Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings. The prestigious global ranking, published annually by Times Higher Education, evaluates universities worldwide. Completing Nigeria’s top 5 universities are the University of Ibadan which came in second, the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), the University of Lagos (UNILAG), and Bayero University, Kano, in third, fourth, and fifth position respectively. For the 2024 edition, THE assessed 1,907 universities from 108 countries and regions using 18 performance…

Panic as Turkish Airline pilot dies mid-flight

Oct 10, 2024Oct 10, 2024 topnews

Passengers aboard a Turkish Airline were yesterday thrown into a state of panic as the pilot died after collapsing mid-flight, forcing the Turkish national carrier to make an emergency landing in New York, the airline said. The plane had taken off from the western US coastal city of Seattle on Tuesday evening, airline spokesman Yahya Ustun wrote on X, formerly Twitter. He wrote: “The pilot of our Airbus 350 flight TK204 from Seattle to Istanbul collapsed during the flight. After an unsuccessful attempt to give first aid, the flight crew…

VIO Lagos operations not affected by Court judgment – Lagos govt

Oct 10, 2024 topnews

The Lagos State Government says the Federal High Court judgment in Abuja barring the Directorate of Vehicle Inspection Office ( VIO) from stopping and impounding vehicles does not affect VIO Lagos directorate operations. The Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Mr Oluwaseun Osiyemi, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos. Osiyemi said it was important to note that in law a court has limits of its territorial jurisdiction and in this case, the judgment was restricted to Abuja. “It is also important to know the rationale of the…

Policeman stabbed to death by soldiers for stopping colleague driving against traffic

Oct 10, 2024 topnews

A policeman, Saka Ganiyu, has been stabbed to death by Soldiers attached to the Ojo Cantonment Barracks led by a yet-to-be-identified colleague, who was accosted for driving against the traffic around Volks Bus Stop, along the Ojo Iyana Iba Road area of Lagos State. It was gathered that the soldier, who was not wearing his uniform, while driving an unregistered T4 Volkswagen commercial bus against the traffic, was stopped by policemen on enforcement duty at Volks Bus Stop. Angered by the action of the policemen, it was learnt that an…

NLC demands reversal as fuel price jumps to N1,030/litre

Oct 10, 2024 topnews

The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Organised Private Sector have called for the immediate reversal of the hike in the pump prices of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. Retail stations of NNPC raised the price of petrol to N1,030 from N897/litre in Abuja, and in Lagos it was hiked to N998/litre from N868/litre. Other locations witnessed similar price hikes, a development that triggered anger among Nigerians. The price hike, the second in one month, represents about 14.8 per cent or N133 rise.…