The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has issued an advisory to travelers from Abuja and Lagos. Acting Corps Marshal, Dauda Biu informed the public on Tuesday through the Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO), Bisi Kazeem. The agency advised vehicle owners and commuters from Abuja, via Ondo, to ply Akure-Ondo-Ife-Ibadan or Lagos-Ibadan-Ife-Ondo-Ore-Benin. Those traveling from Lagos and other parts in the South-West, also through Ondo, to the North were asked to ply same route. The FRSC noted that the advisory was issued because the Igbara-Oke-Ilara-Mokin route is totally blocked for now. Biu assured that operatives and logistics have been adequately deployed…
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According to NMA Chairman, Dr. Babatunde Rosiji, the situation has drastically affected the health system, hence the need for urgent steps to arrest it. Rosiji, who said this during a courtesy visit to the Nigeria Union of Journalists at the Old Gov’s Office, NUJ Ekiti State Council, noted that most hospitals in Ekiti now lacked enough hands to attend to patients. In his words: “Doctors in Ekiti state are leaving Nigeria. We are supposed to have 800 doctors in Ekiti state but as of today, we have just 500 doctors. In some hospitals in Ekiti, we have one medical doctor,…
Ooni of Ife – Ogboru Ogboru is 19th century Ooni of Ife dethroned mischievously by Ife Palace Chiefs who got tired of his 70yrs long reign. He was deceived by trick to come out of his place to come and see something at the Atiba square of the ancient Ile-Ife town and wasn’t allowed to return to the palace again. He angrily left for another aboard where he founded a little town called Ife-Odan and he settled there. Successive Ooni of Ife like 6 installed after him died in succession under 6months like a sort of throne bewitchment and Ife…
The Lagos State Judicial Service Commission has terminated the appointments of Magistrates Oluwatoyin Gwendolyn Oghre and Humenu Olajuwon Amos as members of the State Judiciary for misconduct. A statement signed by the Permanent Secretary of the Commission, Mrs. Olubukola Salami said the termination of appointments was the culmination of the investigation initiated over allegations of misconduct leveled against the duo in line with the disciplinary process and the need to protect the integrity of the Judiciary. The Permanent Secretary, therefore, warned the general public to desist from dealing with the affected Officials in any official capacity as Magistrates and officers…
Jaiz Bank, Nigeria’s premier Islamic bank has offered to finance equipment-upgrade projects of media organisations in the country. The new Managing Director (MD), Mr. Sirajo Salisu, told journalists in Abuja, yesterday, that the bank was prepared to also fund the procurement of equipment by new media organisations both in the print and the electronic media. According to him, the strategy was the bank’s way of strengthening its relationship with the Nigerian media, which he said would then become its ambassadors in the awareness drive. Mr. Salisu explained that Islamic banking was purely business and that many Non-Muslim Nigerians have benefitted…
The two arms of the National Assembly, Senate and the House of Representatives, said yesterday that only 11 states of the federation have voted on constitutional amendment bills transmitted to them six months ago. Deputy Senate President and Chairman of the Constitution Review Committee, Senate Ovie Omo-Agege, who disclosed this at a briefing in Abuja yesterday, said 25 states had not demonstrated any commitment to consider and vote on some of the 44 bills. He listed the 11 states to include Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Anambra, Delta, Edo, Kaduna, Katsina, Kogi, Lagos, Ogun and Osun According to him, the 25 states yet…
A team of engineers led by 94-year-old John Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery, has developed the first all-solid-state battery cells that could lead to safer, faster-charging, longer-lasting rechargeable batteries for handheld mobile devices, electric cars and stationary energy storage. Goodenough’s latest breakthrough, completed with Cockrell School senior research fellow Maria Helena Braga, is a low-cost all-solid-state battery that is noncombustible and has a long cycle life (battery life) with a high volumetric energy density and fast rates of charge and discharge. The engineers describe…
BUA Group, a manufacturing and infrastructure conglomerate, says it is no longer interested in a 50,000-hectare land it acquired from the Kogi government in 2012. The company said this in a letter seen by TheCable, dated October 14, 2022, and addressed to the director-general of the state’s bureau of lands and urban development. TheCable had reported that the Kogi house of assembly summoned BUA Group to explain “why it refused to pay for the land and why it refused to compensate the community involved”. But in the letter, the company said it had never taken possession of the land. BUA Group…
Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has declared force majeure on product supplies from its production facilities on Bonny Island, Nigeria following the declaration of force majeure by all its upstream gas suppliers. This was disclosed in a statement signed by Andy Odeh, General Manager, External Relations and Sustainable Development. The notice by the gas suppliers, according to the statement, was a result of high flood water levels in their operational areas, leading to a shut-in of gas production which has caused significant disruption of gas supply to NLNG. Consequently, NLNG activated force majeure clauses in accordance with the Sales and Purchase…
The US Justice Department said on Tuesday that French cement manufacturer Lafarge SA will pay a $778 million fine after pleading guilty to giving material support to the Islamic State and other terrorist organizations during the Syrian Civil War. Lafarge acknowledged it paid millions of euros to middlemen to keep its Syrian cement factory running in 2013 and 2014, long after other firms had pulled out of the country — in what the Justice Department branded an “unthinkable choice.” Earlier this year, a French court ruled that the company was aware that much of the money had gone to finance…
