Eight persons were on Saturday night burnt to death in a lone accident involving a Mazda bus on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Mr Ahmed Umar explained on Sunday that the accident, which occurred at about 8:45 p.m. near Saapade bridge, was caused by tyre burst. This, he said, resulted in the bus summersaulting and bursting into flames. The sector commander added that 11 people were involved in the accident made up of three male adults, one female adult, one child and six unidentified persons. “The suspected cause of the lone accident…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has announced 189 new cases of COVID-19 infections in the country, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 57,145. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Saturday. “As at Sept. 19, 2020, 189 new confirmed cases and one death was recorded in Nigeria. “Till date, 57,145 cases have been confirmed, 48,431 cases have been discharged and 1,095 deaths have been recorded in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory,” it said. The agency stated that the 189 new infections were reported from 15 states of the federation. The…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday released the results of the Edo governorship election of 13 local government areas of the state. The commission is expecting election results from the remaining five local government areas. The Resident Electoral Commissioner for Edo, Mr Johnson Alalibo, announced Prof. Akpofure Rem-Rukeh, Vice-Chancellor, University of Petroleum Resources, Effuru, Delta, as the Returning Officer to announce the results. Alalibo declared that the results from 13 local government were ready for collation. “This is final stage of the election and I urge you to be calm, if you have any protest we will recognise…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alleged that there were plots by some paid agents to replace the Saturday Edo governorship election results where the party was leading, particularly in Edo North. In a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan on Saturday, the party alerted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Department of State Services (DSS) on the allegation. Ologbondiyan said that the PDP urged its members to remain vigilant and follow their results to all the collation centers. He also said that it cautioned the security agencies against being used to replace results already…
The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Adamu Muhammad, has allegedly asked Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers, to leave Benin, Edo state Reacting to the order, the governor expressed shock that order was issued against other All Progressive Congress, APC, governors who are also in the state for today’s election. According to Wike, who claimed that the Police boss asked him on phone what he was doing in Edo, said he replied the IGP that he was in the state to monitor the election as head of his party’s team in the Edo election. “The IGP then said I must leave…
Civil Society Oganisations, CSOs, in Nigeria have kicked against and called for the stoppage of the harassment of Kaduna-based Barrister Sa’ida Sa’ad by Police operatives from Kano state Command. Mrs Sa’ad is alleged to have, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, shot an audio clip depicting that Kano governor was only trying to make money with the COVID-19 program, which did not seem to go down well with the governor, and the possible reason that she is being harassed. But in a statement by 49 CSOs and made available to Ashenewsonline on Saturday, they asked on whose authority the…
The Yiaga Africa Watching The Vote Mid-Day, has issued a situational statement for Edo governorship elections held on Saturday. The report is jointly signed by the Chair, Yiaga Africa Watching the Vote – 2020 Edo Election Observation Mission, Dr. Aisha Abdullahi and the Executive Director Yiaga Africa Watching the Vote, Mr Samson Itodo and made available to Ashenewsonline. Read the full report below: Introduction On Saturday 19, September 2020, Yiaga Africa WTV deployed 500 carefully trained stationary observers and 25 mobile observers in all the 18 local government areas (LGAs) in Edo state to observe the voting process and share reports…
Some environmental advocates have called on the Federal and state gvernments to find alternative and innovative ways of ridding the environment of plastic wastes. The advocates made the call during a clean up exercise at the Bonny Cantonment, Victoria Island on Saturday in Lagos. The exercise was carried out to commemorate the International Coastal Clean Up Day marked annually on every third Saturday in the month of September. One of the advocates, Dr Leslie Adogame, Executive Director, Sustainable Research and Action for Environmental Development, a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), called for the ban of single use plastics in the country.…
As the world marks the International Vulture Awareness Day, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, NCF, on Saturday underscored the importance of vultures in the maintenance of balance in the ecosystem. The NCF in a communique released after its five days webinar forum on Vultures, made available to news men in Lagos, noted that vultures were sanitary officers with a clean-up service on the environment. The Director of Technical Programmes at the Foundation, Dr Joseph Onoja, in his presentation revealed that nature had bestowed on humanity vultures with the role of environmental sanitary officers with a clean-up service worth $11,000 a year.…
The Board of Directors of Polaris Bank Ltd and Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria has appointed Mr Segun Opeke as an Executive Director. The bank’s Company Secretary, Mr Babatunde Osibodu, announced the appointment in a statement in Lagos. Osibodu said the development was coming on the heels of the recent appointment of, Mr Innocent Ike, as the Acting Managing Director of the Bank. He said that Opeke, until the appointment, was the Directorate Head, Lagos Business. “Opeke has over 25 years of hands-on work experience acquired from leading Nigerian commercial banks with over 15 of these years in Senior and…