Four dead in Ilorin-Ogbomosho road accident
Tunde Oyekola, Ilorin
Four persons were reported dead in a fatal auto accident which occurred along Ilorin-Ogbomoso Road, Kwara State on Sunday afternoon.
An eyewitness account revealed that the accident occurred at Otte town as a result of a collision involving a commercial Toyota Hummer bus with vehicle registration number FFA 717 YR and a truck.
Our Correspondent gathered that the accident was caused by speeding. It was further gathered that some passengers on the bus were burnt beyond recognition.
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It said that seven persons – three males and four females – who secured varying degrees of injuries were rescued from the accident, while a total of 18 passengers – ten males and eight females – were involved in the accident.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission is considering making the National Identity Number a precondition for registering voters when the continuous voter registration exercise commences in a few weeks,
The PUNCH has learnt.
The PUNCH on Tuesday.
He said the NIN would help tackle challenges of underage voting, alien voting and other challenges associated with registration.
The national commissioner, who wished to remain anonymous because he was not authorised to speak, said a final decision would soon be reached.
The INEC official explained that the permanent voter card was only supposed to be in use for a maximum of 10 years, adding that most countries rely on a national database and not the Permanent Voter Card for voting.
Diplomats in Nigeria are getting a dedicated NIN registration desk following a request by Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Under the plan, the National Identity Management Commission NIMC) will tomorrow set up a National Identity Number (NIN) enrolment centre at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ease enrolment for diplomats. The imminent NIN registration desk is expected to offer a reprieve for their enrollment for the ID scheme underway in the country.
Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, approved the enrolment desk for members of the Diplomatic Corps managed by the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy through NIMC, according to a statement by the Ministry.
The Abuja-Kano Road will not be completed
Published 17 January 2021
As you have probably heard, the Muhammadu Buhari government will now complete the reconstruction of the 375km Abuja-Kano Road (AKR) Project in 2023.
One week ago, Funso Adebiyi, a Director of the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, made the announcement, the story being either too hot or too cold for the Minister, Babatunde Fashola, to handle by himself. He was last seen in a crime scene in Lagos playing Sherlock Holmes, handling a vital piece of evidence that had been invisible to the ordinary human eye.
AKR is not just another road. It is part of the A2 highway, the second of the nation’s four federal highways that run North-South. Like almost every government project in Nigeria, AKR was in a poor shape when Buhari took office in 2015.