•Marker fire There was pandemonium at Dosumu Market off Idumagbo Avenue, Lagos, when fire gutted over 20 buildings. The traders, customers and residents took to their heels when one of the buildings exploded and sparked off fire causing stamped as everybody scampered for safety, reports Daily Sun. The fire which spread from one of the [&hellip...
Ace singing sensation, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2Baba, is celebrating his son Innocent Junior’s 12th birthday, with the promise of making up for lost time. On his Instagram page, the father of seven shared his son’s picture with a goodwill message. He noted that he cannot turn back the hands of time but promised […]
For the family of Fidelis Omhonria, July 13, 2023 is a date that would live in the memory for life. It was the day that bullets shot from the guns of officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) killed their older son and shattered an eye of the second. Eight months after, the […]
•Nigerian doctors The federal government yesterday disclosed that 55,000 licensed doctors are in the country to attend to the growing population of patients following the exodus of health professionals to hospitals and health facilities abroad. It said in the last five years, the country lost about 15,000 to 16,000 doctors to the Japa syndrome...
More facts emerged over the Sunday looting of a private warehouse in the Karmo community of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It was reported how some hoodlums in their numbers attacked a government warehouse in Gwagwa town, as well a private one, owned by a trader in neighbouring Karmo town, all located within Abuja Municipal […]
•Victim A 27-year-old mother, Chidinma John, has cried out to Nigerians for financial assistance to treat her parents and brothers who were victims of the Ojokoro, Lagos gas explosion on Sunday afternoon. A 6kg cooking gas exploded at their residence at Olaniyi Bus Stop, Cele Street in Ojokoro, leaving her mother, Grace, 52, Father, Eyeribeh, ...
•Late Oladipupo A survivor of the explosion, who revealed his name as Adeleke, has narrated how he lost his brother, whom he identified as Oladipupo, to the incident. Speaking to the local broadcasting station, Lagelu FM, the survivor narrated that they were playing tennis at a hotel in the area when his brother decided to […]
The inability of the foreign airlines to repatriate their trapped $800 million from ticket sale accruals has cost Nigeria a blistering 40 per cent loss in air travel market share in one year. For two years running, the offshore carriers have been at loggerheads with the federal government over their detained funds and the $60 […]
•Victims of Plateau attack The Nigerian Baptist Convention has decried the killing of its members in Plateau State by gunmen. It was learnt that nine members of the church were among those killed in the Dares community when gunmen attacked several Plateau communities on Christmas Eve, reports The PUNCH. A member of the church, Ishaya […...
•Akin Olateru The immediate past Director-General of the Nigerians Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB), Engr. Akin Olateru today said he lost his marriage in the course of doing his job. He said the job was a very tough one, saying he did not envy the new person taking over from him, reports Daily Trust. Olateru spoke […]