Tag: Roadside

  • Roadside trading: Oyo Govt. gives 7 days ultimatum

    Roadside trading: Oyo Govt. gives 7 days ultimatum

    Oyo State Government has directed occupants and owners of illegally erected kiosks, containers, and shanties as well as other roadside traders to vacate the roadsides within seven days or face sanctions. Oyo State Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources,

  • Boy, 19, kills girlfriend, dumps corpse by roadside

    Boy, 19, kills girlfriend, dumps corpse by roadside

    There was pandemonium in Benin, the Edo State capital on Thursday as a 19-year-old boy identified as ‘Junior Omo Shaba’ killed his lover and left her corpse by the roadside. The incident happened at No. 2, Akugbe Street, Off Siluko road, Ogida, Egor local government area. It was learnt the deceased, Matilda Odiri, who is…

  • 7 injured by road-side bomb in Mogadishu – Police

    7 injured by road-side bomb in Mogadishu – Police

    Police on Tuesday said seven people were wounded by a roadside bomb in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Islamist group al Shabaab carries out frequent bombings in their bid to topple the western-backed government. The bomb had been placed at Mogadishu’s Benadir junction, police officer Maj. Abdullahi Hussein told Reuters.…

  • NCC bans roadside registration of SIM cards

    The Federal Government through the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has placed a ban on open registration of SIM cards. Head of Enforcement Unit at the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Salisu Abdu, made the disclosure in Abuja on Wednesday while addressing journalists after three persons found registering SIM cards in open places were apprehended. TheNewsGuru.com reports…