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A middle-aged woman has reportedly died in a lone incident in Calabar yesterday while chasing after her husband over his “mistress.”. The Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Cross River State, Maikano Hassan, who confirmed the incident, said it was caused by over-speeding. He said the incident involving a Toyota Highlander, which occurred on Murtala Muhammed Highway in Calabar, claimed the life of the lone female driver who veered off the road into a ditch by the road. His words: “Though the woman was immediately rushed to a nearby…

CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Police Force Public Relations Officer, has said no Nigerian has the right to confront policemen or retaliate, even if the cop slapped a ‘civilian’. Speaking through his Twitter account, the Force PRO advised any such victim of Police brutality to rather file a complaint with the law enforcement agency. He was reacting to a viral video of a man dragging a rifle with a policeman during a heated argument and suspicious molestation over his phone. Adejobi further stated that if a person assaults police personnel in uniform,…

Experts have warned that if prevailing socio-economic challenges and other triggers are not addressed within the shortest period, Nigeria’s inflation rate may spiral above 50 per cent as it currently stands at 20.52 percent, representing the highest rate since September 2005 and still rising.     While inflation concerns are not peculiar to Nigeria, the circumstances driving the surge are peculiar, especially, in the form of poor earnings from natural resources, as a result of theft, sabotage, insecurity and banditry, which have affected local production; foreign exchange concerns, huge expenditure and…

Lagos State Government through its Ministry of Justice and the state Task Force held a public auction for over 134 abandoned and seized vehicles at Lagos State Task Force headquarters, Alausa, Ikeja, where auctioneers, agents, buyers, and vehicle owners tried to outwit one another. A widow, 49, Dorothy Dike, and her son, Osinachi Ndukwe, wept openly as they begged for price reduction while their only vehicle bought at the rate of N1.8 million on hired purchase was being auctioned for N450,000. A private auction house took charge of the event…

Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke has said the Academic Staff Union of Universities is willing to end it’s seven month strike. Osodeke, however, said this could only be achieved if concrete agreements are reached with the Federal Government. He gave the assurance in Abuja, yesterday, at a National Town Hall Meeting on Tertiary Education tagged: ‘The Locked Gates of our Citadels -A National Emergency.’ Recall that the union embarked on industrial action on February 14, making it over seven months since public universities across the country were closed down. The Federal Government…