Category: Metro

Woman Stabs Boyfriend To Death Over Abortion
September 4, 2020 No Responses

Woman Stabs Boyfriend To Death Over Abortion

The Police Command in Anambra State has arrested 25-year-old Onyinye Chime for allegedly stabbing her 29-year-old boyfriend, Eleyi Azubuike, to death with a kitchen knife for suggesting abortion to her.The command’s spokesman, SP Haruna Mohammed, disclosed this in a statement...
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Okomu Oil Inaugurates Seven Projects
August 28, 2020 No Responses

Okomu Oil Inaugurates Seven Projects

The management of Okomu Oil Palm Plc has constructed seven different projects within its areas of operations in Edo State as part of measures to speed up development in the benefitting communities. Inaugurating the projects on Friday, the  Managi...
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Ibeju-Lekki Youths Reap Benefits of Dangote Refinery Vocational Training
August 24, 2020 No Responses

Ibeju-Lekki Youths Reap Benefits of Dangote Refinery Vocational Training

Many indigent youths in Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos State are now counting their fortunes and reaping the benefits from the first batch of the vocational training programme organized by Dangote Oil Refinery.   So far, according to a statement, some of....
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Oyo Extends Maternity Leave To Six months
August 20, 2020 No Responses

Oyo Extends Maternity Leave To Six months

The Oyo State Government on Thursday said efforts are ongoing to ensure that maternity leave for pregnant and nursing mothers who are state employees is extended from four to six months.   This is contained in a statement by the...
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Prudential Zenith Life Insurance Donates N38millionTo Slum2School
August 18, 2020 No Responses

Prudential Zenith Life Insurance Donates N38millionTo Slum2School

Prudential Zenith Life Insurance has donated $100,000 (N38 million) to Slum2school Africa, to help cushion the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on education in disadvantaged communities across Nigeria.   Mr Chuks Igumbor, Managing Director and Chief Execu...
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Seplat Restates Commitment To Develop Imo Communities
August 17, 2020 No Responses

Seplat Restates Commitment To Develop Imo Communities

The Chairman, SEPLAT, Dr. ABC Orjiako, said this at the weekend when he led a management team of the company in a courtesy call to the  Imo State Governor,  Senator Hope Uzodinma and leaders of host communities in Ohaji and others,...
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Man Drowns At Lotus Garden Hotel
August 16, 2020 No Responses

Man Drowns At Lotus Garden Hotel

The Police Command in Anambra State has identified the man who drowned at Lotus Garden hotel pool in Onitsha as 42-year old Izuchukwu Achusim, a businessman, who allegedly went to catch fun with a female companion.   Spokesman of the...
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FRSC Returns N900,000 To Accident Victims’ Family
August 12, 2020 No Responses

FRSC Returns N900,000 To Accident Victims’ Family

On Monday 10th August, 2020 at about 1609hrs, a fatal road traffic crash occurred along KEFFI-GARAKU route. The location is Sabon-Gida, Keffi of Nasarawa State.   It was a lone crash involving a Volkswagen Sharon conveying six (6) passengers on...
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FRSC Arrests 26 Drivers Over Unlatched Containers
August 10, 2020 No Responses

FRSC Arrests 26 Drivers Over Unlatched Containers

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has arrested 26 drivers over unlatched containers on their articulated vehicles in Lagos and Ogun, as it begins a Special Operation.   FRSC Zonal Commanding Officer in charge of both states, Mr Imoh Etuk,...
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Stallion Bajaj Flags-Off Keke Rally
August 7, 2020 No Responses

Stallion Bajaj Flags-Off Keke Rally

      By Moses Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail.com     Stallion Bajaj on Friday in Lagos, Nigeria  flagged-off what it described as the “First Keke Rally In Nigeria’’.    Comprised of five“Keke Rally Drivers’’, security agents, among other...
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NUPENG Directs Tanker Drivers To Suspend Services In Lagos Over Apapa Congestion
August 7, 2020 No Responses

NUPENG Directs Tanker Drivers To Suspend Services In Lagos Over Apapa Congestion

  The National Leadership of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers has directed petroleum tanker drivers to withdraw their services from Lagos State effective Aug. 10.   NUPENG gave the directive on Friday in a statement signed...
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Army Impounds 342,000 Litres Of AGO In South-South
August 6, 2020 No Responses

Army Impounds 342,000 Litres Of AGO In South-South

The Defence Headquarters on Thursday said troops of Operation Delta Safe, discovered and deactivated 25 illegal refineries and impounded 342,000 litres of illegally refined AGO in the South-South in the last two weeks.   The Coordinator, Defence Media Operati...
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CIoTA President Advocates Safer Road Transportation, Commiserates With Container Accident Victims’ Families
August 4, 2020 No Responses

CIoTA President Advocates Safer Road Transportation, Commiserates With Container Accident Victims’ Families

President of the Chartered Institute of Transport Administration of Nigeria (CIoTA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh, has restated the institute’s commitment to safety of all modes of transportation in the country, especially those operated within the port environment. &nb...
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Court Remands Woman For Allegedly Killing Stepson With Rat Poison
August 4, 2020 No Responses

Court Remands Woman For Allegedly Killing Stepson With Rat Poison

A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday ordered that a 25-year-old woman, Amina Haruna, who allegedly killed her stepson with rat poison, be remanded pending legal advice on the case. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Muhammad Idris, ordered that Haruna be...
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