The Federal government is unwilling to risk evacuation of Nigerians stranded in war torn Sudan due to hazards of flight operations in that country. Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) Chairperson, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday, April 21. According to her, the Commission, in collaboration with …
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Despite a whooping N4.3 billion spent in rehabilitating Lagos port access roads, there is still no improvement in the state facility, making the evacuation of cargoes extremely difficult. A former managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala-Usman, disclosed that the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing facilitated …
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The Federal Road Safety Corps has disclosed that a total of 324 persons died and 1,706 others sustained various degrees of injury in road crashes in Kogi in 2022. The state’s Corps Commander, Stephen Dawulung, made the disclosure to newsmen in Lokoja on Thursday. Dawulung described the auto crashes in …
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Three persons have reportedly died in a road accident along the Ubulu-Okiti area of the Benin-Asaba-Onitsha Expressway in Delta State. The incident which occurred around 7 am Wednesday, left 12 others injured. It was learnt that the fatal crash involved a white Toyota Hiace bus with registration number KSH 688 ZF …
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An accident involving a commercial bus on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Tuesday has claimed 10 lives and injured six others. The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Sector Commander in Oyo State, Joshua Adekanye, confirmed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Ibadan. Adekanye …
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The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has commenced an investigation into the Thursday morning fatal train crash incident in Kubwa. Our correspondent gathered that an Abuja-bound train had crashed into a moving car at Chikakore, in the Kubwa area of Abuja, leading to a breakdown of the train. The train …
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the disbursement of the $350m Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund with immediate effect. The Minister of Transportation, Muazu Sambo, made the disclosure at the commencement of the Batch B third phase of the Nigerian Seafarers Development Programme held at the Naval Dockyard, Victoria Island, Lagos. Sambo …
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Three persons have been confirmed dead and others critically injured in multiple accidents in the Ugheli area of Delta State. The accident involved a Volkswagen Golf, a Tipper and other vehicles along Evwreni axis of the East-West road, in Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state on Sunday. It …
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No fewer than 17 passengers were killed in a fatal road crash in the early hours of Tuesday along the Kwali-Abaji expressway, within the Federal Capital Territory. The road crash also injured four passengers, leaving one uninjured. According a statement signed by the Federal Road Safety Corps Spokesperson, Bisi Kazeem …
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The Federal Government has said that train services on the Abuja-Kaduna rail line will resume in November. The Minister Of Transportation, Mu’azu Sambo, made this known on Monday while giving the score card of his ministry in Abuja. He said adequate security had been put in place to ensure the …
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