Author: Agency Reporter

The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Malam Shehu Mohammed, has approved the deployment of 1,500 personnel and 25 patrol vehicles for the Nov. 16 governorship election in Ondo State. This is contained in a statement issued by the Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO), Olusegun Ogungbemide, on Thursday in Abuja. The FRSC boss said the move was part of the efforts to enforce restriction of movement and other electoral laws during the election. He directed officers and men of the Corps to collaborate with other security agencies to ensure compliance on restriction of vehicular movement. He added that the…

A man carrying explosives died in a blast as he attempted to attack Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, police said, days before the country hosts the G20 summit. Brasilia vice governor, Celina Leao said preliminary information suggested it was a “suicide”, and came seconds after an explosion in a nearby car that the man was seen getting out of. “This citizen approached the Federal Supreme Court, tried to enter, failed, and the explosion happened at the entrance,” Leao told reporters, adding that no one else was hurt. The body was found with “devices still on it,” she added. “A police…

Britain’s King Charles III is celebrating his 76th birthday, marking the occasion with a visit to a surplus food festival. Charles is treating the day as a normal working one and carrying on with his duties despite facing a personally challenging year in which both he and Kate, the princess of Wales, were diagnosed with cancer. The monarch will open the first two Coronation Food Hubs on the first anniversary of the launch of his Coronation Food Project, designed to bridge the gap between food need and food waste in the UK amid the cost-of-living crisis. He will head to…

There’s a rumble in the jungle, ripe with consequences for humanity. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) International’s 2024 Living Planet Report states that in 50 years until 2020, monitored wildlife populations worldwide shrunk on average by almost three quarters. The Living Planet Index, treated as a measure of the state of the world’s biological diversity based on population trends of vertebrate species from terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats, puts the decline in Africa at 76%. The fastest drop was in Latin America and the Caribbean (95%), while North America registered an average decline of 39%. Europe and Central Asia clocked an…

A former presidential aide, Mr Reno Omokri on Wednesday said the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore lied in his alleged claim that President Bola Tinubu doesn’t shake others with his right hand because it’s bad. Omokri, in his Facebook page said he was reacting to Sowore’s claim on his Honest Bunch podcast interview that President Tinubu shook him with his left hand because the President’s right hand is bad and can’t be used to shake. Omokri, who shared three photographs and a video of President Tinubu, where he shook hands recently with him, King Charles…

The Lagos State Ministry of Environment (MOE) and Water Resources, on Wednesday, said an evacuation notice would be served to shanties around Kuramo waters to address flash flooding in the state. The Commissioner, Ministry of the Environment, Mr Tokunbo Wahab, made this known while speaking with journalists after an inspection tour of some drainage and projects around Eti Osa Local Government Area with his team. Wahab who led a team to visit the Kuramo waters, was displeased with the community due to shanties around the area, saying it was of great concern. Kuramo waters is very strategic for Victoria Island…

Mrs Oluwatoyin Babalola, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ondo State, has assured electorates and stakeholders of transparency in the Nov. 16 governorship election. Babalola gave the assurance during the inspection of sensitive materials by major stakeholders at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Wednesday in Akure. The REC, who said the sensitive materials would be distributed on Thursday, explained that the inspection of the sensitive materials was in a bid to show the transparency of the commission. According to her, showing the stakeholders the sensitive materials shows that the commission is committed to deliver…

Operatives of the Port Harcourt Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) have arrested 11 suspected currency racketeers and internet fraudsters. The EFCC Spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. According to Oyewale, the suspects were arrested around Apara Street, New GRA, Port Harcourt, based on credible intelligence on their suspected involvement in Naira abuse and internet fraud. “The suspects are Rafael Obi, John Daniel, Dominion Sambo, Solomon Nwoke, Solomon Daniel, Stanley Uche, Micheal Markson, Chima Onwra, Arinze Damian, Vizor Richard and Chidera Orji. “Items recovered from them include, cash totaling N1.485…

Child labour has remained a challenge to Nigeria and many other countries. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), child labour has surged, with 160 million children now affected. This trend is most pronounced in sub-Saharan Africa, with a rising number of children, as young as five, engaged in labour, the UN agency says. Vanessa Phala, the Director of ILO Country Office for Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Liaison Office for ECOWAS, is much more worried that agricultural sector accounts for 70 percent of child labour cases worldwide. “In Nigeria, the recent survey by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics…

The head of Uganda’s Anglican Church on Wednesday said Justin Welby, who has resigned as Archbishop of Canterbury, had split the global Anglican communion.Stepping down as the spiritual leader of Anglicans worldwide on Tuesday, Welby said he had failed to ensure a proper investigation into allegations of abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps decades ago.The Church of Uganda has long been at loggerheads with the Church of England on its stance on homosexuality, and said last year it no longer had confidence in Welby.The Church of Uganda stopped recognising Welby’s authority over his “inability to uphold the historic…