A Commercial Bus on Sunday went up in flames at the Niger bridge in Onitsha Anambra State.
The Incident was said to have occurred around 1.02pm.
The Nation gathered that the occupants escaped unhurt before the vehicle caught fire.
Confirming the incident, Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Adeoye Irelewuyi put the time of the incident at 1302HRS.
“A Hummer bus is on flame inside the bridge. The Fire Service have been alerted.
All passengers are safe,” he said.
The Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has asked parents to join the federal government in begging the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to end its ongoing strike.
Shehu made the appeal while speaking at the 11th graduation ceremony of Glisten International Academy, in Abuja today August 6. His appeal comes barely 24 hours after the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, also asked parents to beg ASUU to end their almost 6-months old strike.
ASUU has been on strike since February 14 to protest the non-implementation of its demands by the federal government, and on August 1, the union announced another one-month extension “to give government more time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues”.
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Saturday, condemned the attacks against non-indigenes and law enforcement officials by terrorists in the South East, calling on citizens to point out the perpetrators for prosecution.
According to a statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President was reacting to reports of the beheading of six Nigerien citizens and the brutal killing of some policemen at their duty posts.
He also urged community and religious leaders to speak more forcefully against the killings, stand up and defend the ethos of “our cultural and religious heritage”.
David Adeleke, aka Davido, has mocked Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State for challenging his uncle, Senator Ademola Adeleke’s victory at the election petition tribunal.
Recall that Governor Oyetola had on Friday approached the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Osogbo to challenge the victory of Adeleke.
Israel attacked the besieged Gaza Strip with warplanes on Friday, killing at least 10 people including a commander of the Islamic Jihad group and a young girl.
Taysir al-Jabari, a commander of the al-Quds Brigades, the military arm of the Islamic Jihad, died in an air raid on an apartment in the Palestine Tower in the centre of Gaza City, the group said.
The health ministry in Gaza said at least 10 people were killed including al-Jabari and a five-year-old girl. At least 55 people were wounded and being treated at hospitals as a result of the Israeli raids.
Smoke poured out of the seventh floor of the building in Gaza City. Civil defence teams rushed to the scene to evacuate people and put out a fire caused by the attack.
“We’ve just had Friday lunch and my children were playing. Suddenly a huge explosion hit the tower in which we live. We ran away. The sound was massive. We were very shocked as the place is full of civilians. I saw many casualties that were evacuated,” one resident told Al Jazeera with blood covering his clothes.
Gaza-based author and activist Rana Shubair, who lives in the al-Remal neighbourhood in the western side of the Gaza Strip, said she heard “four to five loud bangs” when Israel attacked the Palestine Tower nearby
Four persons have died in a lone accident involving a Mazda bus along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
The fatal crash reportedly occurred around Oniworo, after the Foursquare camp, Ogun State involved 20 persons.
According to Punch, four passengers were “burnt beyond recognition while 16 others were injured and could be identified.
Seven police officers attached to Edo police command have been arrested for extorting members of the public.
The officers identified as Victor Osabuohign, Godspower Ijebu, Ebatamole Philip, Ademola Benjamin, Inaite Vincent, Robert Esikise, and Adefaye Samuel, are already facing disciplinary action.
Lady narrates how her mother allegedly chopped off her hand and slashed her face with a machete
Glory Smart Emenuwe, a young woman from Ezhionum community in Delta State has narrated how she was allegedly brutalized by her mother.
The lady said she was almost killed by her mother in 2013, who allegedly chopped off her two hands and slashed her face with a machete.
She Said;
“What happened to me could be likened to an accident because I never expected it. However, it was my mother that chopped off my hands and slashed my face.
“On that fateful day, while I was still very young, I woke up one night wanting to urinate, so my father asked my mother to lead me with a torchlight to the back of our house where I could urinate.
“While I squatted to urinate, I didn’t know my mother had a machete in her hand. The next thing I remember was that she descended on me with the machete and I fell down.
“While I was down, she continued to cut me all over my body and I was screaming. It was then that my father rushed out and collected the machete from her and raised an alarm, which attracted the neighbours.
“Unfortunately, by the time my father rushed out, my mother had already accomplished her intention. My father wanted to use the machete on her too but was stopped by the neighbours.
“Afterwards, my father got my mother arrested by the police. However, she’s late now. The incident happened in Edo State in 2013.”
The victim appealed to the government and Nigerians for help, saying;
BAUCHI State was initially considered a safe haven for the law-abiding or a no-go area for bandits and terrorists. While the evil criminals were attacking, maiming and kidnapping for ransom in other parts of the North-East, residents of Bauchi State were at peace, minding their daily chores and thanking God for sparing them from the atrocities of the destructive elements. But all that is over.
An environmental expert and Head, Climate Change Education and Action Programme, Elochukwu Ezenekwe, has said that Anambra State remains the worst hit by climate change in Africa.
Ezenekwe also stated that Anambra had suffered the worst damage from climate change impacts in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa.
The environmental expert, reputed as Africa’s foremost climate change expert, stated this on Thursday during an enlightenment/education session at the Government House, Awka, the Anambra State capital.
The programme was facilitated by the Peace Advocacy and Sustainable Development Outreach and aimed at galvanising climate action by educating stakeholders and actors at the community, local, state, national and international levels.
While calling for an urgent need to declare a climate change emergency, he said Anambra State is suffering from flooding and is also the headquarters of gully erosion in Africa.
He said, “Climate change hits us in Africa through various extreme weather and climate-related events that include drought, flooding and gully erosion. Drought and desertification are the least destructive and easiest to manage.
The Minister of Agriculture, Mohammed Abubakar, has said that food production has not dropped in Nigeria despite the deplorable state of security across the country.
The Minister disclosed this while speaking during the weekly ministerial briefing at the State House in Abuja today August 4.
A Florida woman was arrested for allegedly committing sexual acts with her dog while her ex-boyfriend recorded on video, police said.
According to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department, Christina Calello, 36, “willingly engaged in sexual activity with the dog on multiple occasions” over the course of roughly eight years.
Her ex-lover, 39-year-old Geoffrey Springer, who was also arrested, allegedly recorded the encounters and put them on a hard drive.
The Federal School of Statistics in Manchok, Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State was attacked by gunmen on Tuesday night.
The gunmen killed one person and kidnapped two persons; including the Rector of the school on Tuesday night during the attack which took place around 9:00 pm on Tuesday August 2.
President Buhari has blamed banditry and terrorism in Nigeria on the political instability in Libya.
Buhari said his administration was making efforts towards tackling banditry and terrorism in Nigeria.
He spoke while receiving the letters of credence from the new Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador James Kingston Christoff and Ambassador of Mexico to Nigeria, Juan Alfred Miranda Oritz, at the State House in Abuja, on Tuesday.
The President also urged the international communities to collaborate with Nigeria in tackling insecurity.
He disclosed that his administration had made meaningful progress in the fight against insecurity.
Buhari said this effort was possible with the support of friendly countries, including Canada and Mexico.
“The political instability in Libya continues to fuel terrorism in the Sahel, West and Central African regions.
“Nigeria is not left out of the equation as we are fighting to rid our country of banditry, kidnapping, herder/farmer clashes and insurgency.
“We are, however, making meaningful progress with the support of friendly countries like yours to sustain this fight until we overcome these challenges,” he said.
Lately, the activities of banditry increased in Nigeria.
The General Medical Council which licenses and maintains the official register of medical practitioners in the United Kingdom licensed at least 266 Nigerian doctors in June and July 2022.
The implication is that at least three Nigerian doctors were licensed per day in June and July 2022 despite the moves by the Federal Government to stop the exodus of doctors and health workers in the country amidst worsening brain drain of the professionals in the country.
Our correspondent, who has continued to monitor the GMC register, noticed that the number of Nigeria-trained doctors in the UK currently stands at 9,976.
The figure does not include other doctors of Nigerian origin who did not undergo medical training in Nigeria.
Presently, Nigeria has the third highest number of foreign doctors working in the UK after India and Pakistan.
The country however suffers a shortage of doctors.
The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria noted that Nigeria now has over 100,000 doctors who have registered with the council.
