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  A truck fell on a commercial bus at Ojuelegba, inwards Fadeyi, Lagos State, on Sunday, claiming eight lives. The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority officials were seen trying to rescue the victims. According to the agency, efforts were being made to rescue the victims. “A container laden truck has fallen on a bus at Ojuelegba, inwards Fadeyi. The effort is currently being made towards rescue and evacuation,” the statement by the Permanent Secretary of the agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, read. “Recovery of the fallen container is still ongoing, though it has been taken off on top of the minibus but is yet to be completely removed from the location, traffic is still on hold, and we have a backlog of traffic presently at Alaka. “Kindly exercise patience or find an alternative if you are not trapped in the traffic,” he added. An eyewitness said the truck driver wanted to block the bus from overtaking him. It was gathered that only one out of nine passengers involved was rescue...

The Senate yesterday asked the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN to extend the deadline for the exchange of old naira notes from the January 31 deadline to May 31, 2023. The Senate has also urged the CBN to open an exchange window where people that don’t have bank accounts to deposit their old notes. The resolution of the Senate was a sequel to a motion by Senator Sadiq Umar, APC, Kwara North who demanded an extension to July 31, just as he was worried by the insistence of the apex bank that there would be no such extension. Recall that CBN  had on October last year, said the old naira notes would seize to be legal tender as of January 31, but the Senate in December passed a resolution urging the CBN to extend the deadline to June 30. Moving the motion, Umar who recalled that the Senate in its resolution on Dec. 28, 2022, urged the CBN to extend the use of the old notes from Jan. 31 to June 30, said that however, the apex bank had insisted on terminating the use of the old naira notes b...

  A Twitter user, YorubaGlobalYouth, shared a picture of a lifeless man and a video reportedly captured during the riot. There was pandemonium in the Ojota area of Lagos on Monday as personnel of the Nigeria Police Force reportedly killed two people during the Yoruba Nation agitators’ rally. A Twitter user, YorubaGlobalYouth, shared a picture of a lifeless man and a video reportedly captured during the riot  TWO PEOPLE HAVE BEEN REPORTED KILLED BY THE NIGERIAN POLICE AT THE YORUBA NATION OJOTA PEACEFUL MEGA RALLY TODAY 9TH JANUARY, 2023. IT WAS MEANT TO BE PEACEF!!!” Another user, Dami Adenuga also described the area as unsafe due to the clash between the police and some people he termed as members of the Oodua People Congress (OPC). He said, “Ojota is currently unsafe as a shootout is ongoing between the Police and members of the OPC. Please communicate this with others to be aware, may we not start 2023 with tragedy abeg .” Ojota  currently unsafe… shooting between...

  A suspect linked to the abduction of 32 passengers from a train station in Igueben, Edo state, on Saturday January 7, has been arrested.   Commenting on the abduction, Edo state commissioner for communication and orientation, Chris Nehikhare said 32 passengers were initially abducted, but one passenger managed to escape. Five others have also been rescued.   A so urce told Daily Trust;    “Five different persons have been rescued so far. The kidnappers were forced to release the minors who they felt couldn’t move fast due to the intensity of the security operatives, especially the hunters who were in the bush.”   Nehikhare further revealed that the arrested suspect is now being questioned. He said;    “The kidnap is the most difficult occurrence in the state currently. Few armed men who came with vehicles at about 4pm started shooting sporadically at the Igueben train station.   “Kidnapping 32 while many others were injured. They ...