Commercial motorcyclists known as Okada riders on Saturday clashed with truck drivers after a motorcyclist rammed into a stationary truck on Friday night. The motorcyclist and his passenger died on the spot, The Nation learnt. The incident infuriated other Okada riders who vandalised and set the truck ablaze. The Okada riders were said to have been angered by the fact that the truck driver did not put any caution sign on the road to indicate danger ahead. Other truck drivers mobilised on Saturday morning and started attacking any Okada rider found along the High Court road area in Akure where…
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Security operatives on Friday engaged bandits rescued kidnap victims and killed one of the bandits, leaving others with bullet wounds on the Kaduna-Zaria expressway. Kaduna Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, who confirmed the development in a statement said, people kidnapped by the bandits were rescued and cattle rustled recovered. The Commissioner said the bandits had earlier attacked a Fulani settlement at Kukumake village where they kidnapped people and rustled cattle. According to him: “Troops and police operatives in the early hours of today, Friday, 7th May 2021 engaged armed bandits in the Rigachikun axis of the…
Two persons reportedly died in a road accident that occurred along High Court Road in Akure, the Ondo State capital, on Friday night. The crash involved a commercial motorcycle also known as okada, and a faulty truck. According to an eyewitness, those killed were the commercial motorcyclist and his passenger. The eyewitness narrated that the motorcyclist rammed his motorcycle into the truck which was parked beside the road when it was raining. He said, “It was raining when the accident happened. The okada man and his passenger rammed into the truck parked beside the road. “The truck was faulty and…
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), on Friday, lamented that some individuals were “mercilessly” against Nigeria. According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, Buhari spoke during the sixth regular meeting with the Presidential Economic Advisory Council led by Prof Doyin Salami at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Adesina, in the statement titled ‘We’ll develop our irrigation facilities more, President Buhari assures,’ quoted the PEAC as saying the security challenges had great repercussions on the economy. He said the President urged the leadership at every level to go back to the basics, noting that…
The Ondo State Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, on Friday said the state’s COVID-19 Response Fund Committee raised N800m to fight the disease in the state. The governor commended the committee for carrying out its assignment diligently. He said a newly inaugurated molecular biology laboratory was built from the money raised by the committee. He also expressed delight with the fight against the spread of the coronavirus disease in the state as he said there were no more COVID-19 patients in the state’s isolation centres. Akeredolu said these on Thursday at the inauguration of the molecular biology laboratory of the University…
General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastor Enoch Adeboye on Friday night broke his silence after the demise of his son, Dare Adeboye. The Nation reports Dare, 42, died in his sleep on Tuesday, May 4 in Eket, Akwa-Ibom where he was pastoring a church. Many prominent personalities have continued to pay glowing tributes to the deceased. Adeboye, who preached at the May 2021 edition of the church’s Holy Ghost service, urged everyone to always thank God and say ‘It is well’ even in the face of crises rather than ‘blame and question God’. The programme…
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola has reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment to ensuring the good conduct of statutory marriages in the country. Aregbesola, who made this known at the 2021 National Stakeholders’ Conference on the Administration of Statutory Marriage, on Friday, in Abuja, said this had become imperative due to the prevailing challenges associated with marriages in the country. Represented by the Permanent Secretary, in the ministry, Dr Shuaib Belgore, the minister noted that the ministry was responsible for the conduct of statutory marriages in Nigeria, as well as licensing of public places of worship for the celebration of…
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has vowed to continue its indefinite strike until the Federal Government meets its demands. The ASUP National President, Mr Anderson Ezeibe, made the union’s position known on Friday at an emergency congress held at the Federal polytechnic, Auchi in Edo. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that ASUP had on April 6 embarked on a nationwide strike. Among the demands of the union are implementation of the ASUP/FG agreement of 2010, and payment of salaries and arrears of the new minimum wage in some state-owned polytechnics. Others are implementation of the NEEDS…
Former Kogi West Senator Dino Melaye has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to speak directly to Nigerians over the worrisome insecurity across the country. He stated the President cannot continue to speak to Nigerians through his spokespersons — Garba Shehu and Femi Adesina. Melaye spoke on Friday during an interview on Africa Independent Television (AIT) monitored by The Nation. He said: “President Buhari needs to speak to Nigerians directly, he needs to communicate with the media. Our President is absent, and this has negative concomitant effects on the war against insecurity in the country. “It is very pathetic but our…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ondo state Council has written Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu and his Wife, Mrs Betty Akeredolu to officially protest the alleged assault on a pregnant Environmental Security Guard, Mrs Adeola Egbebi by the governor’s Senior Special Assistant on Special Duties, Dr Doyin Odebowale. The protest letters addressed to the governor and the first lady, was signed by the NLC Chairman, Comrade Sunday Adeleye-Oluwole and the state Secretary of the Congress, Comrade Kehinde Shado and a copy obtained by newsmen on Friday. Below is the full text of the letters; OD/NLC/47/273 7th May, 2021 Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, Executive…