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Share An 18-year- old boy Rufai Usman has been crushed to death by a fully loaded petrol tanker at about 8 am on Thursday in Lokoja, Kogi State. Tribune Online reliably gathered that the fully loaded petrol tanker lost control when the brake failed and fell down at Felele junction thereby crushing the boy dead. Eye witness account disclosed that the accident occurred around 8 am when people were struggling to board taxis that will convey them to their places of work. It was gathered that the victim whose mother fried beans cake (Akara) was assisting his mother by taking the grinded beans and ...

Tinubu, Run! Please, Run!, By Festus Adedayo I think Tinubu should not to take a plunge into the potentially destructive brackish waters of Nigeria’s presidential contest. This is because, it will make either an MKO Abiola or Umaru Yar’Adua of him. Both paths are ruinous… So, Tinubu, please run, run from the SWAGA gang. What could have prompted Aunt Adelina to declare in  The Feast of the Goat that, “Well, that’s what politics is, you make your way over corpses…”? After seeing what politics and politicians do with us in Nigeria, should I have asked that question in the first i...

ON THE GO ABCON: 26 BDC operators arrested over ‘money laundering, terrorism financing’ The Association of Bureau De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) says 26 members have been arrested by security operatives, over alleged unlawful foreign exchange (FX) transactions.Advertisement Aminu Gwadabe, president of... Makinde: For blocking governance loopholes, I’ve received threats over 2023 ambition Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo, says he has received threats over the forthcoming 2023 governorship election in the state, because he has blocked loopholes in the system.Adverti...

A little while ago. look at these pictures coming in right now. more tear gas. demonstrators in tear gas by turkish police in istanbul. we're watching what's going on because it's been several days now that these demonstrations have taken this kind of turn, especially late into the day. we're going to go to our own eye van watson. he's on the ground right now. we hope he's okay. we're going to join him shortly and get the very latest. he's got an eyewitness account of what's going on. turkey, a nato ally, a key ally of the united states, all of a sudden plagued with enormous, enormous demonstr...