Author: Vreporters
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FG Executes 43 Roads In Tertiary Institutions
The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has stated that his ministry was currently executing 43 road projects within tertiary institutions across the country with a view to enhancing the learning environment. Mrs Boade Akinola, the Director of Press and Public Relations in the ministry, in a statement to newsmen, on Sunday, quoted…
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Mother of 3 AAUA Students Who Lost Their Lives In Fatal Accident Slumps, Dies After Hearing Children’s Death
The mother of three siblings, all undergraduates of the Adekunle Ajasin University, who are among those crushed to death by a truck in Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, on Saturday, died immediately after she learned of her children’s death. Two of them were final year students of the university. An articulated truck loaded with cement lost…
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COVID-19: ABU Suspends Monday Resumption
Authorities of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) have suspended its planned resumption of academic activities earlier scheduled for Monday, 25th January 2021. A statement issued by the school’s Director, Public Affairs Directorate, Auwalu Umar, stated that the state government had sent a verification team to the institution on January 20th, 2021 to assess ABU’s compliance with…
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Recently Deployed Oyo Commissioner Reacts To Attack on Fulani Communities
The recently deployed Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Ngozi Onadeko, has called for calm in the state, promising that action will be taken against those behind the recent violence and ethnic tension in the state’s. The Command’s image maker, CSP Fadeyi Olugbenga who spoke on behalf of the Commissioner disclosed this in a statement…
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Insecurity: Police Launch ‘NPF Rescue Me’ Mobile App [See How To Use It]
In a bid to stem the tide of rising insecurity in many parts of the country, the Nigeria Police has deployed technology towards the challenges with the launch of “Rescue Me app.” The app would facilitate the prompt arrival of police officers to crime scene anywhere in the country. Jigawa State Police commissioner, Usman Gonna…
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Oro Worshippers Imposed Mandatory Curfew in Igangan After ‘Fulanis Exit’
After the forceful exit of Fulani herders from Igangan in Ibarapa North local government area of Oyo state by youths in the town, a mandatory curfew has been imposed by Oro worshippers. The curfew, Vanguard gathered, will expire by 12 noon on Sunday. Igangan Development Advocates (IDA), Mr Oladokun Oladiran, leader of the association, dismissed…
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Truck Crushes AAUA Students, Others To Death in Ondo [Graphic Photos, Video]
An articulated truck on Saturday crushed no fewer than eight persons to death in Ondo including Some students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba, AAUA. The report had it that ten others who sustained serious injuries have been rushed to a nearby hospital for medical attention. Eyewitness account said” the trailer carrying cement lost control due…
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Video: Secondary School Students ‘Caught in Bush’ Arrested By Amotekun
Some secondary students in ‘Oyo State’ were spotted in a viral video being apprehended by Operatives of Amotekun for exhibiting questionable behaviors. The students according to the woman recording the moment they were about to be taken away said, the teenagers were arrested in the bush, though she did not state clearly what they were…
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Sunday Igboho Reacts To Attack on Fulani Communities
Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, has said he and his men are not behind the burning of the house and property of the Seriki Fulani, Salihu Abdukadir, in the Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State, saying the indigenes of the settlement were responsible. Igboho, speaking through his Personal…
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10-year-old Girl Strangled Self To Death During TikTok Challenge
A 10-year-old girl in Italy accidentally strangled herself to death while taking part in a terrifying TikTok challenge. Antonella Sicomero was found lifeless on the bathroom floor by her four-year-old sister in Palermo, Sicily. Like the dangerous Blue Whale challenge, the TikTok craze Antonella is feared to have joined a sick game that has been…