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A truck belonging to Dangote Cement Company on Tuesday caused the death of three persons, while driving against traffic along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The Commander of the Traffic Compliance and Enlightenment Corps‎, TRACE, Seni Ogunyemi, who confirmed the accident said the registration number of the truck is DTF 118XA. He said the truck driver, who was driving on the wrong side of the road, rammed on pedestrians crossing the road at Arepo area, and killed three on the spot‎. Mr. Ogunyemi said the driver has been arrested with the truck towed to a police station. He said the corpses of victims…

The Champions League quarter-final has been moved 22 hours forward to Wednesday evening due to the incident in Germany Borussia Dortmund’s Champions League tie at home to Monaco on Tuesday has been called off after an explosion hit the hosts’ team bus en route to the stadium. Marc Bartra was hospitalised with a cut from the detonation, which has led to the game being moved by 22 hours to Wednesday night for security reasons. “Following tonight’s incident involving the Borussia Dortmund team bus,” UEFA stated, “the Champions League match between Borussia Dortmund and Monaco has been postponed until tomorrow [17:45…

Borussia Dortmund’s Champions League tie against Monaco has been postponed after three explosions went off near the Dortmund team bus. Dortmund defender Marc Bartra has been taken to hospital after he suffered superficial injuries in the incident, the club have confirmed. The explosions occurred shortly after 6pm BST while the vehicle was leaving the L’Arrivee Hotel and Spa and heading to the stadium for the quarter-final tie, which has been postponed until 5.45pm BST on Wednesday. A Dortmund police statement read: “According to what is currently known, the windows of the bus were (entirely or partly) smashed and one person…

Paulo Dybala’s brilliant first-half brace and Giorgio Chiellini’s second-half header gave Juventus a 3-0 win over Barcelona. Lionel Messi was outshone by Paulo Dybala as his compatriot produced two sublime finishes to give Juventus a commanding 3-0 advantage over Barcelona in their Champions League quarter-final. Dybala has been keen to play down talk of him being Messi’s heir apparent for the Argentina national team, but twirling a wand of a left foot to fine effect on such occasions makes comparisons irresistible. Having completed a seemingly impossible comeback by overturning a 4-0 first-leg deficit against Paris Saint-Germain in the previous round,…

The Federal Government has assured Nigerians that it has acquired enough vaccines to combat the Cerebro Spinal Meningitis Type C epidemic currently ravaging the country. The Executive Director of National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, Faisal Shuaib, gave the assurance on Tuesday in Kaduna at an emergency meeting of the Northern Traditional Leaders Committee on Primary Health Care Delivery and stakeholders on the CSM outbreak. The outbreak of Cerebro Spinal Meningitis has so far affected 130 local government areas in 21 states in Nigeria, with 4,637 suspected cases reported and 489 deaths recorded. Mr. Shuaib’s assurance that the government…

The Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered the Department of State Service (DSS) to produce former Benue Governor, Gabriel Suswam in court on May 11 for his arraignment. The Federal Government had accused Suswam and two others of diverting N9.7 billion being part of funds from the Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme. The fund was allegedly diverted between 2012 and 2015 while Suswam was the governor of the state. The other defendants facing the 32-count charge are the former Commissioner of Finance, Mr Omadachi Oklobia and former Accountant, Benue State Government House, Mrs Janet Aluga. The arraignment was, however, stalled…

Facebook’s European regulator said it hoped to reach a deal in the coming months with the U.S. company to allow it to use data gleaned from the WhatsApp messaging service it acquired in 2014. The European Union’s 28 data protection authorities last year requested that WhatsApp stop sharing users’ data with Facebook due to questions over the validity of users’ consent. Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon, the lead EU regulator on privacy issues for Facebook because the company’s European headquarters are in Dublin, on Tuesday said she hopes for a final resolution by the summer. “I think we are…

Argentina have sacked Edgardo Bauza after eight matches as coach, with the team outside the automatic qualifying places for next year’s World Cup. La Albiceleste are fifth in the 10-team South American qualifying group, with only the top four assured of qualifying for the tournament in Russia. Finishing fifth would mean a play-off against a team from Oceania. Bauza, 59, was appointed in August and guided his side to three wins, two draws and three defeats. “We’ve told Bauza he’s ceased to be the national team coach,” said Argentina Football Association president Claudio Tapia. “The national team is playing badly…

Fire incident did not affect operations at Lagos Airport , says FAAN The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, says the fire incident that occurred at its headquarters on Monday did not affect air operations. PREMIUM TIMES reported the fire incident at the headquarters in Lagos, Tuesday. The cause of the fire incident, which affected some of the agency’s offices, is yet to be known. But Henrietta Yakubu, Acting General Manager, Corporate Affairs, FAAN, said the incident is being investigated. “The incident is being investigated right now to find out the cause of the outbreak,” she said in a statement…

The House of Representatives plans to summon former President Goodluck Jonathan to explain his role in the controversial award of OPL 245 oil block licence, PREMIUM TIMES learnt Monday. Razak Atunwa, Chairman of the House Committee on Justice who leads an ad-hoc panel investigating the $1.3 billion Malabu oil deal, said efforts have commenced towards summoning the former president to testify. The money was paid by oil giants, Shell and ENI, for the oil block, one of the richest in Africa. About $1.1 billion of the money was paid directly into a Nigerian government account with JP Morgan while about…