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One man has been burnt to death in Ogun State as two petrol tankers exploded along the Ijebu-Ode-Ibadan Highway on Thursday. The Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) said the incident happened on Wednesday night in front of NASFAT praying ground. TRACE Public Relations Officer, Babatunde Akinbiyi, revealed that the driver of the first tanker loaded with petrol lost control of the vehicle due to speeding, saying it fell into a ditch and caught fire immediately. According to him, another tanker driver, who saw the first tanker on fire had decided to help out, “but in the process,…

NYSC DG Warns Corps Members Against Partisan Politics https://nporeports.com/nysc-dg-warns-corps-members-against-partisan-politics/ As 2023 general elections is gathering momentum, the Director-General of NYSC, Major General Shuaibu Ibrahim has cautioned corps members against partaking in partisan politics. The warning was contained in a statement signed by Emeka Mgbemena, Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations on Thursday. The DG while debriefing the 2022 Batch ‘A’ Stream Two Corps members in a nationwide virtual address, urged them to allow the lessons learnt during the Orientation Course to guide them during and after the service year. He also warned them about security consciousness and to avoid anything…

Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday discharged a former Minister of Interior, Senator Abba Moro of the charges of fraud over the ill-fated Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment exercise in 2014. Recall that many applicants had died from the stampede while many others were injured during the exercise. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had in 2016 arraigned Abba Moro and three orders on an 11-count charge on allegations of obtaining money by pretext, procurement fraud and money laundering and two others by the anti-graft agency. Justice Dimgba, who had in 2020 quashed seven…

Maj.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, the Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has appealed to stakeholders to speed up the passage of the NYSC Trust Fund Bill. He made the appeal on Thursday in Abuja, during the closing parade of the 2022 Batch ‘A’ Stream Two Orientation Course. Ibrahim was represented by Suleiman Abdul, the FCT Coordinator of the Corps. He said the Trust Fund when established would make the Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) Programme of the NYSC more impactful. “Once it becomes operational, the quality of the programme will be further enhanced through the provision of adequate training materials…

Governor of Cross River State, Prof Ben Ayade, has got a reprieve from the court Thursday afternoon after Justice Taiwo Taiwo dismissed a suit by the Peoples Democratic Party seeking his removal from office. PDP had demanded the removal of the governor from office after his defection to the All Progressive Congress. He was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party. The PDP had, in its suit, claimed that the governor could no longer enjoy a mandate given to him on the platform of the PDP while moving to the APC. “This court has no power to declare…

Son of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, Leke Adeboye, has apologised to the pastors of the church for calling them “goats.” In a statement released on his Instagram page, he said though his comment was extreme, his intention was not to malign or insult the church. Leke wrote, “I wish to crave your indulgence to please forgive my extreme statement which I wish to emphasise was absolutely not intended to insult or malign. “I also wish to apologise profusely to the entire leadership and Pastors of our beloved Church who might have…

The Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), on Thursday submitted its report to President Muhammadu Buhari. This was just as the President said he was waiting for the outcome of the constitutional review over the matter. The President told RMAFC, which was led by Engr. Elias Mbam to submit its report. He said, ‘‘Ordinarily, I would have gone ahead to table this report before the National Assembly as a Bill for enactment. ‘‘However, since the review of the vertical revenue allocation formula is a function of the roles and responsibilities of the different tiers of government, I will await…

British oil and gas giant Shell expects to write off up to five billion U.S. dollars post-tax in asset values in the first quarter of 2022 after exiting Russia. The company said in a statement on Thursday said that the cash flow from operations is expected to be negatively impacted. It will be impacted by very significant working capital outflows as price increases impacting inventory have led to a cash outflow of around seven billion U.S. dollars. LNG liquefaction volumes are expected to be between 7.7 and 8.3 million tonnes. Trading and optimisation results for Integrated Gas for the first…

Over 12.8 million children have tested positive for COVID-19 since onset of the pandemic, according to the report by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children’s Hospital Association. More than 130,000 of these cases were added in the past four weeks. Since the first week of September in 2021, there had been nearly 7.8 million additional child COVID-19 cases, according to the report. The report said children represented 19 per cent of all COVID-19 cases in the United States. In the last week of March, children accounted for 16.6 per cent of reported weekly COVID-19 cases. There is…

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC ), Osun Command, says no fewer than 12 people lost their lives in various degrees of accidents in March. This is contained in a statement issued by the command’s spokesperson, Mrs. Agnes Ogungbemi, and made available to newsmen on Thursday in Osogbo . Ogungbemi said that 33 auto crashes in the state resulted in the death of 12 people due to non-compliance with traffic regulations. “The number of accidents recorded in March was 33, with 12 deaths due to disobedience to traffic laws,’’ she said. The spokesperson said that the command was able to…