A multiple auto crash has claimed the lives of 11 persons who were burnt to death near Isara Bridge, Ogere, off the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Saturday night. Seven other persons sustained varying degrees of injuries in the inferno that resulted from the accident. Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Sector Commander in Ogun, Mr Ahmed Umar confirmed the figures of the accident victims to newsmen in Abeokuta on Sunday. Umar stated that the accident, which occurred at 10.35pm involved two Mazda buses and a car and was caused by excessive speeding. He added that the affected vehicles and the dead were…
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The Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Police has revealed that it rescued a total of 77 persons from a Church, following the earlier rescue of 50 children who were kept in a dungeon of the Church in Ondo West local government area of Ondo state. The spokesperson of the command, SP Funmilayo Odunlami said the victims, rescued on Friday night in the church at Valentino axis of Ondo, were deceived by an assistant pastor of Whole Bible Believers Church, Josiah Peter Asumosa. Odunlami disclosed that the victims, rescued following intelligence report gathered by police operatives at Fagun Division, included…
By Lizzy Carr, Bauchi The Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria Globe FM Bauchi football team emerged winners of the just concluded Sports Writers Association of Nigeria SWAN Bauchi chapter 2022 sports week. The team defeated Albarka Radio football team 6 to 5 after a penalty shootout at the Yelwa Campus pitch of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University. Globe FM received their trophy at a colourful event and was presented with an award to mark the end of the SWAN week. Others winners include Best Sports Journalist for Television that went to Abdullahi Shehu Yankari of Bauchi state Television; Best Sports Journalist for…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar has reacted to media reports that Rivers governor Nyesom Wike shunned his emissary in Türkiye. According to media reports, Atiku deployed Adamu Waziri, a former Minister, to meet Wike, who is on holiday in Türkiye, “after the governor rebuffed several attempts by the candidate to arrange a meeting between them.” But Atiku in tweet by his media adviser, Paul Abe on his Twitter handle @omonlakiki on Friday, denied that his principal ever sent an emissary to Wike. “The report that H.E @atiku sent…
Turkish and foreign law enforcement have seized record quantities of cocaine heading from South America to Turkey, revealing the expanding role of the country’s traffickers in shipping drugs to European and Middle Eastern markets. In late June, Ecuadorean authorities seized roughly 850 kilograms of cocaine at the port of Guayaquil from a container of bananas bound for Turkey, according to a police statement. The shipment was almost identical to a separate load intercepted in Turkey’s port of Mersin in April, also from Guayaquil and containing over 250 kilograms of cocaine. The seizures, according to experts consulted by InSight Crime, are…
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has called on Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba to transfer the case of 50 children allegedly found by the Nigerian Police in the underground of a Church in Valentino area of Ondo town in Ondo state in the evening of Friday, 1st July, 2022, to Abuja. The call is contained in a statement by its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola emailed to ASHENEWS on Saturday. MURIC described the development as shocking, terrifying and almost incredible. “Men of the Nigerian Police allegedly found more than 50 children in the underground of a church…
Lagos state has revealed that 10,000 retirees are been owed their pension rights in Lagos State, Mr Babalola Obilana, Director-General, Lagos Pension Commission (LASPEC), has said. Obilana said the commission also had about N10 billion to pay as outstanding accumulated debts for pensioners in the state. He disclosed this in an interview on the sidelines of the 95th Retirement Benefit Bond Certificates Presentation For Retirees in Lagos on Saturday. Obilana stated that the outstanding pension would be settled before the end of the first tenure of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu in May 2023 as promised by the governor. Recall that the…
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Lisbon, Portugal, indicated that Nigeria is ready to fill the natural gas gaps in Europe predicated by the current Russian-Ukrainian war. The President also said with over 200 million mainly young people, Nigeria is ready to be the hub of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA). This is contained in Buhari’s statement on areas of cooperation between Nigeria and Portugal delivered at the Presidential Palace in Lisbon. President Buhari, who identified five key areas of cooperation and collaboration capable of moving both countries forward, urged Portugal to consider Nigeria as a valued and trusted…
An Islamic sharia court in Nigeria’s northern state of Bauchi has sentenced three men to death by stoning after convicting them on charges of engaging in homosexuality, the leader of the religious police that arrested them said on Friday. Northern Nigeria is predominantly Muslim and the states in the region use sharia courts to punish residents for crimes ranging from adultery to blasphemy. Adam Dan Kafi, the head of the Hisbah religious police in the Ningi local government area of Bauchi said the three men were arrested on Jun 14 and charged in a sharia court. The men, including a…
Students from the nineteen northern states of Nigeria are protesting in Jalingo, the Taraba state capital. The protest followed the inability of the federal government to resolve the ongoing strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), which has entered its fifth month. Under the auspices of the Coalition of Northern Groups’ Students, the undergraduates are asking traditional rulers, civil society organisations and government at all levels to urgently intervene and end the strike. To air their grievances, they carried placards bearing several inscriptions like ‘FG, end ASUU strike now’, ‘Incessant ASUU/FG face-off, a demonstration of craziness,’…