The Federal Road Safety Corps has apprehended 162,834 traffic offenders nationwide from January to June, 2023, The PUNCH has learnt. The corps spokesperson, Bisi Kazeem, disclosed this to our correspondent on Sunday. According to Kazeem, the traffic offenders were arrested for committing 179,165 offences. He said, “From January to June 2023 alone, the corps recorded a total of 162,834 arrest of traffic offenders and a total of 179,165 offences.” Speaking on the types of offences leading to the arrests, the FRSC spokesperson said, “They were arrested for speeding, seatbelt use violation, route violation, light sign violation, use of phone while…
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Godwin-Maria Utuedoye is a trained professional journalist. A graduate of Mass Communication from Delta State University, Abraka. He is a registered practising Journalist with the Nigeria Union of Journalists with over 20 years experience of reporting. He is interested in Investigative and development Journalism. He lives in Nigeria and focuses more in the Niger-Delta region where oil and gas exploration by government and multinational iol companies has plunged into poverty and environmental degradation for years. He is also a PR Consultant, content creator, broadcast, print Journalist and Publisher. His vast experience in journalism span over decades of reporting the activities of the untouched areas. He is married with children.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expanded its Special National Media/Publicity Committee (SNPC) for the November 11, 2023 Governorship elections on Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi States respectively. The Special National M e d i a / P u b l i c i t y Committee, headed by the National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, pursuant to Section 40 (1) (a), (b) and (c) of the PDP Constitution (as amended in 2017) is to liaise with the various Campaign Councils and Committees for the elections to ensure effective media and publicity actions for the victory of our Party in the…
Senator George Akume, Secretary to the Government of the Federation has constituted an ad-hoc committee on behalf if the Federal Government to review the curriculum vitae of individuals who will be included inti board appointments. The President has in June 2023 directed that boards of agencies whose tenure has expired during the Buhari administration be dissolved. The ad hoc committee is currently being co-chaired by a former Governor of Kebbi State, Atiku Bagudu, and a former governor of Jigawa State, Abubakar Badaru. It was gathered that the two ex-governors were working hand in hand to achieve a timely submission of names to…
Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo, founder of Kingsway International Christian Centre, KICC, has allegedly abandons God’s call and chosen a new career in real estate business after 40 years of preaching God’s gospel. According to the report, the famous televangelist has retired from full-time Christian ministry and is now one of the biggest landowners in Lagos. Although he has been acquiring real estate since the age of 27, when he acquired a small parcel of land, he expanded it to include about 900 acres of land in the Mowe area of Ogun State, where he built six estates before moving on to…
By Festus Ahon Transportation infrastructure is one of the indices of measuring the social and economic development of any society. As such, the nature of transportation infrastructure of any nation also contributes to the GDP and life expectancy ratio of its citizens. As observed by the International Trade Office of the US Department of Commerce, Nigeria’s infrastructure deficit is 40% short of World Bank standard. Nigeria’s infrastructure deficit, amounting to 30% of its gross domestic product (GDP), falls short of the international benchmark of 70% set by the World Bank. Nigeria, as one of the largest economies in Africa with…
By Livinus Odes Young business owners in the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria have been urged to channel their efforts towards other productive ventures that will add value to their life and boost the economy of the region by looking beyond the Oil sector. That was the climax of the third Niger-Delta Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Summit/Exhibition 2023 organized by an NGO, the Niger Delta Young Professional Platform as part of activities to marked the 2023 Int’l Youth Day on the theme: “Building The Culture of Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness Beyond Oil, that climaxed with presentation of Five Hundred Thousand (500) naira…
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye Delta State Police Command have arrested one kidnapping suspect, Eseoghene Ezekiel Obeje, (28) suspected to be among a kidnapping gang that murdered one Regina Ogana (f) who was kidnapped alongside her husband and other members of her family on August 2, 2023.
Motorists plying the Lagos/Benin bypass road has cried out to the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki to warn miscreants embarrassing and extorting private car owners conveying their personal goods from other parts of nation to states in the Niger-Delta area, but often extorted and embarrassed at different spots in the name of Uhunwhode Local Government stickers. A private car owner, Mr. Edward Perezoukomo who was harassed and same time extorted, blamed the Edo State Government for the gross impunity exhibited by this miscreants on a federal road without being challenged. Narrating his ordeal, he said he was coming from Ogun…
Credit: Cathopic / Moisés Becerra Seminarian enrollment in the United States has been on a decades long decline as fewer young men seek out the priesthood and the number of active priests in the U.S. continues to dwindle. But some dioceses are reporting a notable surge in enrollment, signaling a potential turnaround in some regions. Annual data from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University, released in June of this year, showed “a continuation of relatively slow long-term decline” in priestly vocations at the pre-theology and theology levels, falling from over 6,400 men in 1970 to…
Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, has put smiles on the faces of poor widows and orphans in his state as he gifts them with cash and food items. About 130 widows and orphans smiled home with a One Hundred Thousand naira(#100,000.00) each as capital to enable them start their own businesses. The Governor equally empowered over 100 orphans with N5000 each, alongside bags of rice to support them towards improving their livelihoods. He personally distributed the cash and rice to the beneficiaries, at his Gudi country home, in Akwanga Local Government Area at the weekend. He urged beneficiaries drawn…