The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dauda Biu, has condoled with the families of victims of the crash along the Onitsha-Awka Expressway, Anambra State, on Friday. Reports have it that the fatal crash occurred on Friday morning, involving a Mitsubishi L300 commercial Bus with vehicle registration number XE 245 […]
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Corpses from natural disasters rarely pose health risk- Red Cross, WHO
The World Health organisation and the Red Cross have revealed that contrary to certain beliefs, the bodies of victims of natural disasters or armed conflict rarely pose a health threat to communities. The health agencies said victims, who have died from trauma, drowning or fire do not normally harbour organisms […]
FG woos investors for Nigeria’s lithium deposits
The Ministry of Solid Minerals has made efforts to attract investors to explore lithium deposits in the country. This was according to a statement by the Ministry’s Deputy Director of Information, Alaba Balogun. At the exhibition booth of the Ministry of Solid Minerals at the Pan Pacific Hotel during the […]
Federal Government to produce 24,000 passports daily
The Federal Government is planning to produce at least 24,000 passports daily to completely eradicate the delays citizens experience in obtaining their passports. The production would commence immediately after the 200,000 backlogs of passports are cleared. The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo disclosed this in Abuja on Friday when a […]
Garbu Shehu Says Buhari goes to farm four days a week.
Garba Shehu, media aide to the former President Muhammadu Buhari, revealed that his principal has been spending his time away from office attending to his farm in Daura, Katsina State. Shehu made this known in a statement released on Thursday titled ‘One Hundred Days after Buhari’. Shehu said Buhari chose […]
OAU Increases Tuition Fees For Students
The Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, has announced an adjustment to the fees to be paid by both its new and returning students for the new academic session. In a press statement by its Public Relations Officer, Abiodun Olarewaju, the university disclosed that new students in the faculties […]
Police confirms bandits’ attack on Sokoto community
Police authorities in Sokoto State have confirmed a banditry attack in Giyawa village, Goronyo Local Government Area in the eastern senatorial district of the state with four persons dead. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Ahmed Rufai, Newsmen that eighteen persons were initially abducted by the assailants […]
Police Confirm Murder of LP Campaign Director in Abia
The Abia State Police has confirmed the death of Mr Zachary Maduka, a Campaign Director of the Labour Party in the 2023 elections in Uturu, Isuikwuato Local Government Area of the state. Maduka, a 70-year-old native of Ezieke Akpukpa village, was beheaded by yet-to-be identified men on Wednesday night. The […]
Appeal Court sacks Elumelu, declares LP’s Okolie winner
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, has set aside the judgment of the National and State House of Assembly Election Tribunal in Asaba, Delta State. The court affirmed the candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Ngozi Okolie, as the duly elected lawmaker. Kpakpando reported in February that […]
Power supply restored nationwide.
The Eko Electricity Distribution Company has announced that the power supply has been restored. There was a widespread blackout across the country following the total collapse of Nigeria’s electricity grid early Thursday morning. Kpakpando had earlier reported that the grid collapsed totally around 12:40 a.m. on September 14, 2023, leading […]