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A man from Ezzagbo in Ebonyi state Okechukwu James Uwa caused a heavy traffic at Oshodi.

He traveled to Lagos on 27th June 2018 to visit his one time colleague while he was in Aba, Abia state and was parading along Oshodi when he stumbled on his wife that died two years ago in his home.

According to him, he said; my wife died of motor accident two years ago which I have finished her burial but am shocked to see her with a man who was conveying her in his motorcycle.

At first, I hesitated until I summoned courage and when I called her by her name, on turning to see me she disappeared.

Our correspondent also said that the said man who was carrying her on his bike fainted twice before being resuscitated and narrated his own story saying that he have lived with her for 8months, he also said that she moved in with him after they met in a church and he dishing out advances towards her, I love her so much which I have begged to marry her.

She told me she was all alone in Lagos working but told me she was from Ebonyi state. I have many times requested that I meet her people but she would decline saying that her people are evil’.…

There has been another accident on the Michael Otedola Bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The accident, which occurred just opposite the scene of Thursday’s tanker fire accident, that left nine dead and 54 vehicles burnt, was inward Lagos, involving two commercial buses that had head-on collision.
The driver of one of the buses, a yellow commercial bus, popularly called Danfo, was driving against traffic when it ran into an inter-state bus.
The Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command said of the accident: “Due to the driver’s speed, he hit the Toyota Hiace bus coming into Lagos on the Otedola Bridge.”

Another tanker explosion happened along Suleja road in Niger state this morning. This accident occured barely 24 hours after the petrol tanker explosion on Otedola bridge in Lagos that claimed the lives of 9 persons including a minor.

The fire accident occurred at Mallam Karo, along Minna-Suleja Road involving a collision between a truck and a fuel tanker.

The spokesperson of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Mr. Bisi Kazeem, said the crash happened in the morning.

He added that men of fire service and officials of the FRSC were on the ground to put off the fire as the vehicles are burning.

Five persons have been confirmed injured in the early morning head-on collision between the fuel tanker and the trailer and the victims have been taken to the hospital.

“No life was lost,” Kazeem said.

The tanker had no visible number plate and was laden with Kerosene, a highly flammable hydrocarbon liquid.

It is also noted that the fuel tanker belongs to Conoil.

“The cause of the crash was speed violation, leading to loss of control,” Kazeem added.

He said that the nature of the crash serious, being a multiple accident.

“Victims have been taken to the General Hospital Suleja, as they were attended to by FRSC officials and other security agents such as men of the Nigerian Police Force and Fire Service officials from Suleja.

“The vehicles caught fire after a head-on collusion,” he submitted.

Anna Cole@ann_nicole81

An accident just occurred between a fuel tanker and a trailer at Maje along Minna-Suleja road.

Incase you’re planning to ply that route now, it is advisable you delay your movement a bit as firefighters have just arrived the scene.

11:42 AM – Jun 29, 2018

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The Federal Government says it will commence disbursement of the recovered $322 million dollars Abacha loot through Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) to 302,000 poor households in 19 states in July.

Mr Tukur Rumar, of the National Cash Transfer Office (NTCO), disclosed this at an event organised by the Swiss Embassy in Abuja yesterday June 28th.

According to Rumar, 19 states namely Niger, Kogi, Ekiti, Osun, Oyo, Kwara, Cross River, Bauchi, Gombe, Jigawa, Benue, Taraba, Adamawa, Kano, Katsina, Kaduna, Plateau, Nasarrawa, Anambra and Internally Displaced Camps (IDPs) in Borno are to benefit from the repatriated loot.

He noted that the benefiting households will be derived from the National Social Register (NSR) that the 19 states are already on and that each household would received N5000.

Meanwhile, the Swiss Ambassador to Nigeria, Eric Mayoraz has said that the $722 million of the Abacha loot that was hidden in Switzerland was fully repatriated in 2005. He also said that the 322 million dollars that was repatriated in Dec. 2017, was money that was frozen by the Swiss Attorney-General, but was not domiciled in Switzerland, but in other countries, mainly Luxembourg.

He, however, said measures had been put in place to ensure that Swiss banks were not used to hide stolen funds from other countries.…