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Members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) yesterday went beiserk as no fewer than 12 persons sustained injuries and several motorcycles destroyed during a fierce clash between them and commercial motorcyclists in Igando, outskirts of Lagos. Trouble was said to have started after the NURTW increased the prices of ticket for Road Transport Employers’ Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) including commercial motorcycles. From a daily levy of about N400, it was gathered that the parent body increased the fare of motorcyclists to over N1,000. It was learnt that…

Barely two months after a devastating tremor struck near the village of Visso in the central Marche region, italy, hundreds of people awoke in emergency shelters on Thursday after fleeing their homes following a series of strong quakes in the same region. After a night of heavy rain, rescuers workers were trying to assess the full extent of the latest disaster in central Italy, which toppled buildings and injured dozens. A series of aftershocks rattled the area through the night after two quakes with a magnitude of 5.5 and 6.1…

The Zone 2, Police Command, Onikan, Lagos, have uncovered a ritualists’ den at Abule Ifa, Siun area of Obafemi Owode Local Government, Ogun State, arresting two suspected leaders of the syndicate. Recovered inside the massive den were several fetish materials and assorted charms. Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of the Zone, Abdulmajid Ali, yesterday, led a team of senior officers among who were Commissioner of Police, Ogun State Police Command, Mr. Ahmed Iliyasu; Officer in Charge of Operations, Zone 2, DCP Suleiman Balarabe; Commander of the ZIS, CSP Gbenga…

A 21-day ultimatum has been issued to the FG yesterday by the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas, NUPENG. The Federal Government was given the 21-day ultimatum  to order  the recall of over 3,000 workers sacked by oil majors in the ongoing mass sack of workers in the sector or face a nationwide industrial action. A communiqué issued yesterday by NUPENG’s Central Working Committee, CWC,  meeting in Warri, Delta State, lamented that the  3,000 workers were  sacked by oil majors and oil servicing companies who were closing shops on…

Oluchi Tochukwu, a female banker, was yesterday paraded by the Ogun State Police Command. She was paraded alongside two suspected hired assassins over a botched plot to kill her husband, identified as Onyebuchi Tochukwu. The state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, while parading the suspects at the command’s headquarters in Eleweran, Abeokuta, explained that the 32-year-old banker, who is a staff of a new generation bank, allegedly masterminded the failed assassination of her estranged husband by arranging and keeping the weapons used in the attack in the husband’s compound in…

Mr. David Yiman, has been remanded in prison by a Makurdi Chief Magistrate’s Court barely two weeks after being sworn in as the Sole Administrator of Buruku Local Government Area of Benue State. David Yiman was remanded for alleged involvement in the murder of one Dr. Wilfred Tondo, a lecturer at the University of Mkar, Gboko. The suspect was arraigned yesterday, alongside Kosuvenyi Kungwa and Emmanuel Nyajo, for criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide punishable under Sections 97 and 222 of the Penal Code. In the First Information Report, filed before…

Enilolobo Olamilekan, a teacher at Abogunloko area of Ikotun in Lagos State, has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting one of his students. Olamilekan, who hails from Lagos State, admitted to have lured the girl to his parent’s apartment at 17 Ayodele Shitta Street, where he took advantage of the 12-year-old Junior Secondary School 2 student. Parading the suspect before journalists at her Oduduwa office, Ikeja yesterday, Lagos State Police image maker, Dolapo Badmus, explained that the suspect was apprehended by the school’s management after her mother lodged a complaint.…

Federal Government of Nigeria has been given a 14-day ultimatum to lift the ban on rice importation by The Campaign for Democracy, CD, to help reduce premature deaths by suicidal actions by hungry and frustrated Nigerians. National Publicity Secretary of CD, Dede Uzor Uzor, who gave the ultimatum in Onitsha, Anambra State yesterday, said since government does not have any incentive for farmers to produce enough rice for local consumption, there is no need banning importation of such an important commodity. Describing rice as one of the favourite staples of…