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Forty-two passengers narrowly escaped death in a road accident in Umuokpu, along the Onitsha-Enugu expressway, Anambra State. Fifteen men and twenty-four women of them, however, sustained varying degrees of injury in the crash which occurred around 11:30 am on Tuesday, involving two vehicles, a tipper, and a bus with the inscription of a private school. An eyewitness who blamed the crash on over-speeding said the tipper driver suddenly lost control and rammed into the bus from the rear. “The tipper driver was on speed, rammed into the bus from behind, the bus lost control, summated and crashed,” he said. Sector…

Pope Francis has denounced the “poison of greed” driving conflicts in Africa, saying the rich world needs to realize that people are more precious than the minerals in the earth beneath them. Many tens of thousands of people cheered as he traveled from the airport into the capital Kinshasa in his popemobile, with some breaking away to chase it while others chanted and waved flags. But the joyous mood, one of the most vibrant welcomes of his foreign trips, turned somber when the 86-year-old pope spoke to dignitaries at the presidential palace. He condemned “terrible forms of exploitation, unworthy of…

Suspected Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) thugs have held Rivers State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Tonye Cole, hostage in Opobo. In a video clip leaked on social media, sporadic gunshots were heard at the place. Opobo is the hometown of the PDP governorship candidate, Siminilayi Fubara. This is the second time the party’s campaign rally was attacked in the state in two weeks. The first one was in Port Harcourt City Council where suspected dynamite exploded, injuring five persons. Abia PDP governorship candidate, Uchenna Ikonne, is dead The police command is yet to react to the attack. The police…

A 16-year-old boy was on Wednesday killed while a 15-year-old girl sustained a gunshot injury in a bomb attack at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and a police station in Ojoto and Nnobi in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State. The hoodlums who carried out the attack invaded the area in the early hours of the day with four Seina vehicles, IEDs, petrol bombs, and other explosives. Newsmen gathered that the boy died in the incident, while the female teenager who sustained a gunshot injury had been rushed to the hospital for medical attention. Police spokesperson Tochukwu…

President Muhammadu Buhari is to be blamed for the hardship caused by the naira redesign and not the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, according to Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai. Speaking on Wednesday during an interview on Channels TV, El-Rufai criticized the timeframe set for the withdrawal of the old N1,000, N500, and N200 noted initially slated for January 31, 2023. Quoting him, “You have to understand the president. People are blaming the Central Bank Governor for currency redesign. No, you have to go back and look at the antecedents of his first outing as a…

Some 1,700 farmers in Enugu have benefitted from N3.4 billion grants from the World Bank’s Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement, and Livelihood Improvement Support (APPEALS) project in the state. This was made known on Tuesday during the flag-off of the implementation of the “Women and Youths Empowerment Programme (WYEP)” by Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi in Enugu. Newsmen reports that APPEALS project is solely funded by the World Bank to improve the livelihood of women and youths and it is supported by the Enugu State Government. Each of the 1,700 beneficiaries was given grant inputs of N2m totaling N3.4bn. Gov. Ugwuanyi, represented by his…

Herdsmen on Tuesday ambushed and killed the Divisional Police Officer of Naka division, Mamud Abubakar, a Superintendent of Police. Naka is the headquarters of Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State. A source said the DPO was killed around 3.30 pm on Tuesday while he was returning from Makurdi, where he went for peace escort. He was returning to his station at Naka when he was ambushed and killed. The Benue State Commissioner of Police, Wale Abass, who spoke to our correspondent on the phone, confirmed the incident. He said, “It is true that the DPO was killed; he…

The Coalition of Pastoralists Association has said the number of its members killed during the accidental airstrikes by the Nigerian Air Force in Nasarawa has risen to 47, while no fewer than 62 members sustained various degrees of injuries. The association which is an umbrella organization of pastoralists’ groups in Nigeria also accused the military of carrying out similar airstrikes on armless herders in Keana and Awe in Doma local government area of Nasarawa State, adding that soldiers last year killed their members in Kaduna. Addressing journalists on Tuesday in Abuja on behalf of the Coalition, the National President of…

No fewer than 4,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the IDP camp in Uhogua, near Benin, are said to have been reunited with their families. Pastor Solomon Folorunsho, Coordinator of the camp, disclosed this in an interview on Tuesday, in Abuja. Folorunso on Tuesday received the Leadership Newspaper award as the “Social Impact Person of the Year 2022” He however said there were still more than 3,000 Internally Displaced Persons in the camp, adding that they were those whose families were completely wiped out during insurgency and various crises in different parts of the country. “But the population of the…

The Big Brother Titans, BBTitans housemate, Yaya has berated her fellow housemate, Mmeli, over his private relationship with Nelisa. Mmeli and Nelisa were said to have made out after they were spotted kissing and cuddling. Nelisa was also seen picking condoms for him in a viral clip on social media. Mmeli appeared to have been avoiding Nelisa since the sexual encounter, prompting Yaya to confront him. Expressing her disappointment during a chat with Nmeli, Yaya said he was wrong to have ignored Nelisa after sleeping with her. “You are wrong for sleeping with that girl and treating her the way…