The Federal Government has received at least 103 Nigerians deported from Turkey over migration related issues. Some of the issues were expired visas, irregular migration, among others. The Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, NCFRMI Alhaji Tijani Ahmed stated this on Friday during the deportees’ profiling in Abuja. Represented by…
The Federal Government has pledged to offer more assistance to local airline operators to create an enabling environment and ease of operations. Minister of Aviation and Aerospace, Mr Festus Keyamo, made this known when he presented his master card at the ministerial news briefing on the administration of President Bola Tinubu’s sectoral update. According to…
Nigerians no longer have to travel to the immigration office to obtain their passports, as home delivery of passports is set to begin in June. This development was announced by the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, when he inspected the electronic gates at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport’s new terminal in Abuja. Tunji-Ojo said the…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo state has threatened to withdraw all its candidates from the forthcoming local government council election if the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OYSIEC) failed to guarantee the usage of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for the poll. Most of the registered political parties in the country have indicated…
Two male adults have reportedly died while one person was injured in a fatal crash that occurred on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The accident which occurred at about twenty minutes past 5 in the evening on Christmas day involved a Toyota bus marked TSE266XA and a Mazda bus with registration number FKJ215XX. The Public Education Officer, Federal…
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, has approved the promotion of the spokesman of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Bisi Kazeem, to the rank of Deputy Corps Marshal. Kazeem, who until promotion was an Assistant Corps Marshal, is to represent the South-West geopolitical zone of the country, according to a…
The operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, have prevented another diesel fire explosion at Obadeyi before Ijaye along the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway. According to a statement released by the Agency’s Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department, Adebayo Taofiq, the tanker driver eloped after the tanker fell in the early hours of Thursday. He…
Some motorists along the Mowe-Ibafo area have expressed concerns over the rising cases of corpses being dumped along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The motorists who spoke with newsmen on Wednesday expressed fear of disease outbreak and the security threat that such recurring issue may pose to them. At the Mountain Top University axis of the road,…
Four persons on Monday lost their lives, while three others sustained varying degrees of injuries in an accident on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway when a luxury bus rammed into a truck. The Public Education Officer for Ogun State Sector of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Florence Okpe, confirmed the incident in Abeokuta. Okpe stated that the…
A tanker laden with the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly called fuel, has exploded on the Lagos Ibadan Expressway. The incident which happened on Friday night around the OPIC axis in Isheri, Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, made many motorists and travellers stranded. According to the reports the situation forced many drivers to…