At least 68 people have been confirmed dead after a plane with 72 onboard crashed in Nepal, the Himalayan country’s deadliest aviation disaster in three decades. So far, rescue teams are working at the crash site of a Yeti Airlines ATR72 aircraft in Pokhara, central Nepal where foreign nationals from Australia, France, Ireland and India among the passengers onboard “Thirty-one [bodies] have been taken to hospitals,” said police official, AK Chhetri, adding that another 36 were still in the 300-metre gorge the aircraft plunged into at the site in Pokhara in central Nepal. The army said they had manage to…
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By 2050, Nigeria will meet its energy needs, with renewable energy sources accounting for approximately 60% of final energy consumption if the country starts to implement an “increased renewable uptake scenario,” as stated in a recent report issued by Nigeria’s government and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
Those who are chroniclers of history often deploy subjective and partial recording to suit their aim. They usually want history to be revised in the opposite direction to suit their egos, and to confuse the younger generation of Nigerians. The facts of history concerning the failed third term bid of former President Olusegun Obasanjo are very lucid. Former president Obasanjo sought a third term, but it failed woefully, because it didn’t have the buy-in of those who worked for his election in 1999, the Governors, the media and other critical stakeholders. After I survived an assassination attempt in the early…
Directs security agencies to apprehend perpetrators Tracereporters –Niger state governor, Abubakar Sani Bello has condemned the setting ablaze of the Catholic Priest of St. Peter’s and Paul, Rev. Fr. Isaac Achi by bandits at his residence in Kaffin Koro, Paikoro local government area. Earlier report shows that bandits in the early hours of Sunday set the Catholic Priest, Achi ablaze. Governor Sani Bello in a statement by his spokesperson, Mary Noel-Berje on Sunday, described “the setting ablaze of the Parish resident of SS Peter and Paul Kaffin Koro where the parish Priest was burnt alive to death as ungodly and…
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has charged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the successful conduct of the forthcoming general elections.
The Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) has called on the Police to apprehend actress Empress Njamah’s ex-lover, George Wade, who was alleged to have recently leaked a nude video of the actress.
Tesla’s move marks a reversal from the automaker’s strategy over the last two years when new vehicle orders exceeded supply. It comes after CEO Elon Musk warned that the prospect of recession and higher interest rates meant it could lower prices to sustain growth at the expense of profit.
ASHENEWS reports that a Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’ suit seeking the disqualification of Sen. Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), and his vice, Mr. Kassim Shettima, for the 2023 general elections. Delivering judgment, Justice Inyang Ekwo, dismissed the suit on the ground that the PDP lacked locus standi to institute the suit. Justice Ekwo, who held that the case was caught by the principle of issue estoppel, described the suit as an abuse of the court process. The PDP, in its originating summons, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1734/2022, had sued the…
The Lagos state governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor) on Friday said he remained committed to faithfully deploying state resources to ease the burdens and hardship of residents and end their worries. Adediran in the company of party leaders made the pledge when his campaign train landed in the Somolu local government area of Lagos, in continuation of his tour of the 245 wards of the state. The governorship hopeful, in interactive sessions with various artisans, religious and other groups in the council, said that his ambition was not personal but for the interest of the masses. According…
A Prosecution Witness (PW) on Friday told an Ajaokuta High Court sitting in Lokoja, Kogi that the corpse of his alleged murdered brother was found in a locked up metal storage drum behind the house of his suspected killer. Mr. Taiye Ajayi, PW1, made this known while being led in testimony by a prosecuting Counsel, Mr. Badama Kadiri, in a culpable Homicide case brought before Justice Hauwa Yusuf of Ajaokuta High Court. The state ministry of justice charged Francis Julius and Obiodun Yusuf with three counts of criminal conspiracy, theft, and culpable homicide. They were accused of conspiring and murdering…