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No fewer than five persons, including a family of four, were confirmed dead in an auto crash inside the campus of the University of Ilorin on Wednesday.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the family of four included a father, mother and their two kids, while the fifth person involved in the accident was said to have been a student of the university.

The incident, which was confirmed by the university authorities, reportedly happened at about 9:00 pm on Monday along the university dam with some other victims sustaining varying degrees of injury.

In a statement which was sighted …

No fewer than seventeen school children were feared dead on Tuesday as a truck rammed into some students in the Ojodu area of Lagos State.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the driver of the vehicle lost control before hitting the number of schoolchildren killing most of them in a very bizarre manner.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Hakeem Odumosu, confirmed the accident to newsmen when contacted on Tuesday evening.

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The police boss disclosed that after hitting the schoolchildren, the truck driver made attempts …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday declared that it will take actions on the Federal Government’s failure to meet its demand in the next 48 hours.

President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, made this disclosure while speaking with newsmen on Sunday.

The labour leader pointed out that the union will conclude its consultation with various branches across the federation and subsequently make its position known.

The union met with Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, who served as the Chief conciliator between ASUU and the Federal Ministry of Education on October 14, 2021 on a …

Rescuers in Indonesia raced to find survivors in villages blanketed by molten ash Sunday after the eruption of Mount Semeru which left no fewer than 13 people killed and dozens injured.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the eruption of the biggest mountain on the island of Java caught locals by surprise on Saturday, sending thousands fleeing and forcing hundreds of families into makeshift shelters.

No fewer than 11 villages of Lumajang district in East Java were coated in volcanic ash, submerging houses and vehicles, smothering livestock, and leaving at least 900 evacuees seeking shelter in mosques, schools, and …

Divers recovered seven more bodies Sunday from a bus that was swept off a bridge by a flooding river in Kenya, bringing the death toll from the tragedy to over 30.

The bus was taking a church choir and other travellers to a wedding in Kitui County on Saturday when it keeled over and sank beneath fast-flowing waters as the driver tried to navigate a submerged bridge.

Twelve passengers managed to scramble to safety but most aboard the stricken bus were unable to escape before it was swallowed by the muddy tide.

Kitui governor Charity Ngilu said 31 bodies …

Over 100,000 persons have signed two petitions on the Change.org platform, demanding the immediate prosecution of all the culprits responsible for the gruesome murder of 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni, who was a boarding student of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos.

The first petition started by a family member of the deceased, Timi Oromoni, titled, ‘Justice For Sylvester Oromoni Jnr’ has attracted over 65,000 signatures as of 1pm on Sunday evening.

The petition which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York partly read, ‘On Tuesday 30/11/2021 we lost our brother 12 years old Sylvester Oromoni Jnr…He was taken …

The United Kingdom has disclosed that Nigeria has been added to its red list category as it looks to tighten travel restrictions in an effort to limit the spread of the COVID-19 variant, Omicron.

‘From 0400 on Monday 6 December, Nigeria will be added to the red list for entering England,’ the UK government’s travel advisory on Nigeria said.

This means Nigerians who do not have UK citizenship or residence permit can no longer travel to the country until the advisory is revised.

The rule applies to even fully vaccinated persons.

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Authorities in Panama have seized a record haul of drug money — more than $10 million in cash — in a crackdown on gangs linked to neighboring Colombia’s embattled Gulf Clan.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that it took investigators more than 12 hours to add up the money using a dozen machines, several of which failed under the strain, the prosecutor’s office said.

The money was found in three different hiding places in a house in Nueva Providencia in the Caribbean province of Colon.

‘This is, without a doubt, the largest seizure of drug trafficking money made in …

Popular human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Femi Falana, has described the review of the Retired Justice Doris Okuwobi’s #EndSARS panel findings on the incident which occurred at the Lekki Toll Gate in October 2020 which was orchestrated by the Lagos State Government as illegal.

He posited that the White Paper committee set up by the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu did not have the legal backing and competence to edit, modify, alter or reject the report of the commission.

He said, ‘When the government set up a White Paper committee a fortnight ago, …

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has demanded justice for Sylvester Oromoni, a 12-year-old Secondary School student, who was allegedly assaulted at Dowen College Lagos State.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that Sylvester died from internal injuries he sustained after an assault by fellow students a few weeks ago.

However, the school Principal, Mrs. Adebisi Layiwola, in a statement denied any form of bullying or attack on the student.

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The denial had on Friday sparked outrage on social media as Nigerians demanded that the perpetrators be arrested.

This led the Lagos …

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Thursday advised residents to build in accordance with the territory’s urban and regional plan to avoid altering the Abuja Master Plan.

Mr. Ikharo Attah, Senior Special Assistant to the FCT Minister on Monitoring, Inspection, and Enforcement, who gave the advice during an interactive session with newsmen in Abuja, said the FCTA would not hesitate to bring down any illegal structure.

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‘I am making a fundamental appeal to residents of the Federal Capital Territory to work in accordance with the urban and regional

About 140 million Nigerians are among the 5.1 billion people in the world that lack access to justice, Country Director, Hague Institute of Innovations of Law (HIIL), Mrs. Ijeoma Nwafor has said.

She said this while addressing the Justice Transformation Lab in Kaduna, adding that 11 million residents in Kaduna State also lacked access to justice.

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According to her, the Hague Institute of Innovations of Law came into being in Nigeria in 2018 and had been in Imo State before coming to Kaduna State, adding that it is ready …