•Lekki deep seaport Despite the hype about the phenomenal offerings of the $1.5 billion Lekki deep seaport and other terminals in Nigeria, no Nigerian port made the top 100 ports in the recent global ranking by Lloyd’s List Intelligence. Asides the Lekki deep seaport, Nigeria has numerous sea terminals like; Apapa port, Tin Can Island [&hellip...
•Baltimore bridge collapse Rescue workers in Baltimore are searching for as many as seven people after a major bridge in the city’s port was struck by a container ship early today, officials said. “It is an active search and rescue situation and the number of missing people could change,” the city’s fire chief said. Two […]
•African Development Bank Nigeria is missing from the list of 11 African countries expected to experience strong growth in 2024. According to the African Development Bank Group, in its latest Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook of the continent, Africa will account for 11 of the world’s 20 fastest-growing economies in 2024, but Nigeria is no...
•Hoodlums No fewer than fifteen persons were last night declared missing as heavily armed policemen and suspected thugs invaded the Ijegun Egba community in the Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area area of Lagos. The image maker in charge of the state police command, Benjamin Hundeyin however told our correspondent that he was not aware of [&hel...
•Chief Job Tiza Tension is mounting in Gaambe-Tiev, Logo Local Government area of Benue State, following the disappearance of a Peugeot commercial wagon vehicle with seven passengers in it. The unfortunate incident, happened on Wednesday afternoon at Mbavuur, along Ugba- Anyiin road, Logo Local Government Area, reports The Nation. Among the pa...
Two US Navy sailors went missing on Thursday evening while conducting operations off the coast of Somalia, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said yesterday. “On the evening of January 11, two U.S. Navy sailors were reported missing at sea while conducting operations off the coast of Somalia,” the CENTCOM said. “Search and rescue operations are ...
Hampered by bad weather and damaged roads, Japanese rescuers searched today for 222 people still missing four days after a devastating earthquake as the death toll approached 100. Two elderly women were pulled from the rubble yesterday, but hopes of finding other survivors after the 7.5 magnitude quake on New Year’s Day were fading with [&hell...
•Opposition leader Ablasse Ouedraogo Burkina Faso’s former foreign minister-turned-opposition-leader has been missing for three days after being taken away from his house by people who said they were police, his party said today. Besides foreign minister, Ablasse Ouedraogo served as deputy director general of the World Trade Organization and h...
•The suspects Men of the Ondo State Police Command have arrested two persons over the disappearance of a newborn baby and the placenta of the baby at Isua, the headquarters of Akoko South-West Local Government of the state. The suspects, Akinjise Ifeoluwa, 40, and Oyewole Margaret, 66, a herbalist and the grandmother of the missing […]...
The Ogun State Police Command said it has unraveled the disappearance of 18-year-old Quadri Sallami, a 100-level student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, who was allegedly slaughtered by suspected ritualists on November 14, 2023. Police spokesperson in the state, Omolola Odutola, in a statement, said that two suspects have been arrested over...

