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The Federal road safety commission in Lagos state has lamented incessant road accidents, occurring along its jurisdiction, noting that the agency has recorded 416 accidents within 8 months. Lagos state sector commander, SEGUN OGUN-GBEMI-DEBE In a press conference, explained that commercial vehicles are more affected by road crashes than private vehicles.He added that night driving ...

The accreditation of no fewer than 159 undergraduate courses in nine federal universities across the country is set to expire in 2022 amidst the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The nine universities include the University of Ilorin; University of Jos, Plateau; University of Calabar; Bayero University Kano; University of Benin, Edo; University of Lagos; Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; Obafemi Awolowo Unive...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities is scheduled to meet with Federal Government representatives on Tuesday over its prolonged strike action. Speaking on monitored television program, President of ASUU, Professor EMMANUEL OSODEKE said the meeting was to discuss one of seven issues ASUU is protesting over ASUU embarked on a four-week warning strike on February 14....

The country’s Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures the level of price change in goods and services, hit 19.64 percent in July 2022 from the 18.60 percent recorded in the last month. This means a 1.82% month-on-month hike, according to the (CPI) report for July 2022 released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). According to the NBS report, the country’s urb...

14-member reconciliation committee constituted by the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, ATIKU ABUBAKAR, and Rivers State Governor, NYESOM WIKE, is set to begin its work in Abuja today. Both men had agreed to form the committee at a meeting they held at the Abuja residence of a former Minister of Information and National Orientation, Professor JERRY GANA. ...

Nigeria has beaten South Korea 1-0 in the Group C football match at the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica. ESTHER ONYENEZIDE’S late strike gave the Falconets victory in their second match of the tournament. The Falconets will face Canada in their final group match on Wednesday. The Falconets made their f...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow seven million Nigerians to complete their voter registration. SERAP made the call in a statement on Sunday by its Deputy Director, KOLAWOLE OLUWADARE, warning that failure of the electoral body would attract legal action. According to the rights grou...

Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, ABUBAKAR MALAMI has said that the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) has no basis to reject the proposed deductions of 418 million dollars from the Paris Club refund. MALAMI told journalists at the State House Ministerial Briefing that the governors originally created the liability whose payment they had also indemnified, therefore all their complaints are unjustifiable....

President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has said military force is not an option in the rescue of the remaining 31 victims of the Abuja-Kaduna train abduction. On March 28, armed men blew up a train travelling between Abuja and Kaduna and opened fire, killing eight people, wounding 26, and taking an unspecified number of passengers hostage. Dozens of hostages have already been freed following ...

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said the Federal Government has deployed a new technology as a stop-gap solution to the challenges confronting Nigeria’s power grid. Officials of the company said the technology, comprising Internet of Things and the Virtual Private Network, was deployed by the government through TCN to monitor real-time grid operations and help mitigate power system collapse....