•FRSC officials on duty A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos has restrained the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) from arresting vehicles with faded number plates. Justice Akintayo Aluko made the order yesterday and also restricted the FRSC from imposing any fine or punishment on any drivers for driving with a faded vehicle plate number, [&he...
No fewer than six passengers have been abducted as Armed bandits attacked travellers on the Shinkafi road near Kwanar Jalaf village under the Shinkafi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The incident happened yesterday morning when the assailants abducted six passengers travelling in a Golf car and set the vehicle ablaze, further heighteni...
Gunmen have attacked a police checkpoint at Ajali, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State. The Police Public Relations Officer for the Anambra State Police Command, Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed this in a statement today. Ikenga, a Superintendent of Police, said two security operatives sustained gunshot injuries in a gun duel and wer...
•Governor Monday Okpebholo The Edo State Vehicle Recovery Committee has retrieved 30 government-owned vehicles from officials of the immediate past administration, Chairman Kelly Okungbowa announced today. The development was disclosed in a statement issued by Fred Itua, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Monday Okpebholo. Okungbowa commended w...
•A truck engulfed in flames Several persons have been wounded, seven vehicles damaged and two houses destroyed, after a truck conveying gas cylinders exploded in Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State. Although no lives were lost during the incident, a source from the area, told our correspondent today on telephone that the cause of [&he...
•Wike The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has announced that starting January 2025, all commercial buses in Abuja will be profiled by the Nigeria Police Force and the Department of State Services (DSS). Wike, made the announcement during the FCT Renewed Hope Youth Empowerment Programme in Garki, recently, where he...
•Filling stations Petrol consumption has drastically reduced in Nigeria with filling stations recording sharp drop in patronage as reports from across the country indicate. This is largely connected to the high cost of premium motor spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, with a litre selling as much as N1,200 in some parts of the country, [&helli...
•Vehicle Inspection Officer (VIO) A Federal High Court in Abuja has issued an order barring the Directorate of Road Traffic Services (otherwise known as VIO) from further stopping vehicles on the road, impounding or confiscating vehicles, and imposing fines on motorists. Justice Evelyn Maha issued the order in a judgment on a fundamental right...
The federal government’s Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative (P-CNGi) is targeting the creation of about 100,000 jobs from an estimated one million conversion of vehicles from petrol to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). This was just as the initiative commenced conversion of vehicles into autogas across the country following the distrib...
•Aliko Dangote (center) Billionaire businessman Aliko Dangote has assured Nigerians of the highest quality supply of Premium Motor Spirit for their vehicles, saying that they “are now going to have good petrol while the engines of your vehicles will last longer.” The billionaire gave the assurance at a press conference in Lagos today as the [&...
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