Day: January 29, 2025

President Trump’s suggestion to have Egypt and Jordan take in large numbers of Palestinian refugees from besieged Gaza has hit the rock as the countries’ governments rejected the suggestion and left a key congressional ally in Washington perplexed on Sunday. Fighting that broke out in the territory after ruling Hamas attacked Israel in October 2023 is paused due to a fragile ceasefire but most of Gaza’s population has been left homeless by the Israeli military campaign. Trump Saturday aboard Air Force One, told reporters that moving 1.5 million people away…

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People scooping petrol from a fallen tanker About 21, 580 traffic offenders were arrested by the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, between January and December 2024 across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. This is also as the corps revealed that 411 persons died scoping fuel in 2024 across the country. The FRSC Corps Marshal, Malam Shehu Mohammed, made the disclosure while addressing newsmen on the 2024 special patrol operations on Monday in Abuja. According to Mohammed, the corps recorded a reduction in the number of offenders…

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The Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned one Barrister Benjamin Chukwuemeka Nwobodo before Justice F. O. Giwa-Ogunbanjo of the Federal High Court, sitting in, Enugu State. Barr. Nwobodo is facing a five-count charge bordering on forgery and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N12,000,000.00 (Twelve Million Naira). This information was released in a statement on Monday, signed by Dele Oyewale, the EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity. Count three of the charge states: “That you, Benjamin Chukwuemeka Nwobodo, on the 15th…

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Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, has reiterated his call for the enforcement of anti-spill lock on fuel tankers across the Nigeria , insisting that disasters caused by  tanker-spill had become too frequent in the country. Mbah restated the call on Tuesday when he received in his office the Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Mrs. Zubaida Umar, and her team who were in Enugu to flag-off the distribution of emergency intervention items to the victims of the Saturday tanker fire that caused the loss of several…

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The death toll in the tanker explosion on Ugwu-Onyeama axis of the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway has risen from 18 to 21 people as recently confirmed by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC). The Sector Commander of the FRSC, Enugu State Command, Mr Franklin Agbakoba, told newsmen in Enugu on Tuesday that an additional two males and one female died in the hospital. NewsBits recalls that the incident, which happened on Saturday, Jan.25, at about 11:30 a.m. when a fuel-laden tanker had a brake failure, fell and exploded, left 11 road users…

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