Rescuers in South Africa are searching for survivors after a five-storey apartment block under construction collapsed yesterday, killing five people and leaving at least 50 trapped. Officials in the city of George, Western Cape province, say 26 people have been pulled from the wreckage and taken to hospital but there were dozens more workers w...
Hundreds of women and children of Okuama community, Ewu Kingdom, in Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, who fled for dear lives when troops of the Nigerian Army invaded the community over the killing of 17 soldiers last Friday have been stranded for six days without food in the forests. This came as Delta […]
•Mohammed Bello The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission has said a substantial amount of government revenue remains trapped in the vault of commercial banks unremitted. The commission also expressed concern about the non-remittance of monies to the government coffers by revenue-generating agencies to the extent that a large c...
There’s a mounting pressure on the federal government to make significant releases to clear the foreign airlines’ trapped funds amidst their threat to exit Nigeria. This is despite the release of $61.4m by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) last week as part of efforts to clear outstanding liabilities and bolster the foreign exchange market, [&...
•Scene of accident A tragic incident occurred yesterday at the PDP Road junction along the Isaac Boro Expressway in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State, resulting in a conductor being trapped and crushed to death. The victim was identified as the conductor of a truck involved in a collision with a tanker and a tricycle, […]
The regime of crazy fares Nigerians have been subjected to by the foreign carriers operating in the country may soon be reviewed downwards as the federal government, through the Central Bank of Nigeria, has commenced part payment of over $800 million trapped funds of the airlines. This came just as the information reaching this paper […...