Tag: Highway
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Just in: Many injured as ex-Senate president football team bus crashes on highway
The team bus of a Nigerian football club, Abubakar Bukola Saraki (ABS) Ilorin FC was involved in an auto crash on Monday morning along the Ogbomoso-Ilorin Expressway in Oyo State. The team is reportedly owned by Abubakar Bukola Saraki, a former Senate President and former Governor of Kwara State. It was learned that the team…
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Umahi orders removal of speed bumps on highways nationwide
The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has ordered the removal of speed bumps on the country’s highways to improve traffic flow and reduce congestion on major roads. Umahi made this known at a two-day Retreat for Federal Ministry of Works Highway Engineers and Managerial Staff on Friday in Abuja.
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Just In: Panic in Kogi as bandits reportedly abduct bus load of passengers
Unspecified number of passengers in an 18-seater bus have been reportedly abducted at Ochadamu along Anyigba-Itobe road in Ofu Local Government Area (LGA) of Kogi State. Navy Commander Jerry Omodara (rtd), the state security adviser to Governor Yahaya Bello, confirmed the attack on Thursday, saying the state government was in complete control of it.…
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BREAKING: Notorious bandit terrorizing Kaduna-Abuja highway killed
Bandit terrorizing Kaduna-Abuja highway killed
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Bandits kill nine travellers on Kaduna highway, capture 11
Some bandits killed no fewer than nine travellers, including infants, in Zankoro village along Birnin Gwari-Kaduna highway on Sunday. Also, a total of 11 people were abducted by the bandits on the same day at Dan Kungi village in the Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State. This was contained in a statement by…
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Traffic obstruction: Go to villages or face punishment, police warns ‘highway’ masquerades
Masquerades have been given the last warning in Imo state, not to block major highways during the festive period. The warning according to the Imo state police command that they observed that the masquerades have caused an obstruction on the roads. The Imo police command through the state police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Orlando Ikeokwu,…
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Why police officers protested, blocked highway — Official
The Nigeria Police Force has claimed that its personnel who blocked its Borno headquarters earlier Monday in Maiduguri, were not staging a protest, but “merely complaining” over the delay in payment of their special duty allowances. The Force spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, in a statement claimed some of the police mobile force personnel on special duty…
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Tambuwal, Yari team up to fix Sokoto-Gusau federal highway
Sokoto and Zamfara state governments have completed the repairs of the 214 km Sokoto-Gusau federal highway to ease transportation challenges encountered by commuters plying the important route. This was contained in a statement issued in Sokoto Monday by Malam Imam Imam, the spokesman to Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State. The road, which connects…