Friday, 21 February, 2025

Category: Environment


From Ifeoma Ejiofor An early morning fire has on Wednesday destroyed two shops housing clothing materials at Afor Nnobi market, by Nnobi roundabout, in Idemili South LGA of Anambra State. Mr Chukwudi Chiketa, Chief Fire Officer, Anambra Fire Service has Read more…


A three-storey building under construction inside Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State (AE-FUTHA) 1, has collapsed. One of the workers was first rescued and taken to the hospital where he is receiving medical attention while the second person Read more…


The Federal Government has reduced the entire corridor of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, from phase two, section two to 55 kilometers including the train tracks. Minister of Works, Engineer Nweze Dave Umahi announced this in  Lagos during a routine check on the Read more…


Modular refineries, on Sunday, confirmed the concerns raised by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, on the fact that some mafias in the oil sector were bent at stopping in-country refining of crude oil for the production of Premium Motor Spirit, Read more…


Three hundred beneficiaries of a fully sponsored programme in agriculture by the Abia State Government have arrived the CSS Global farms, Nasarawa State, for a two-week training. Information Officer, Government House, Umuahia, Nwahiwe Cleverson Chinonyerem, in a statement said the State Read more…


Critical stakeholders have highlighted two key factors capable of impinging on the country’s drive towards the adoption of compressed natural gas (CNG) as an alternative to premium motor spirit (PMS), also called petrol, whose cost has risen arbitrarily after the Read more…


A Russian Su-34 supersonic bomber has crashed in the country’s mountainous North Ossetia-Alania region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday morning. Both pilots have been killed. The jet was flying a routine training mission. Preliminary assessment suggests that the aircraft Read more…


There is no gain in saying that Benue State is currently the hub of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the country. With about 17 or more IDPs camps housing over 1.5 million IDPs, including those sheltering in the host communities, Read more…


Northern senators and senators from other geo-political zones of the country clashed on Wednesday when a bill for an act to Establish National Animal Husbandry and Ranches Commission for the Regulation, Management, Preservation and Control of Ranches throughout Nigeria; and for Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor Nnewi Five people have been sent to their early graves on Sunday in Anambra State, following an early morning multiple accident. The accident happened at Oba in Idemili South LGA of the state. Sources claimed that government Read more…


The Russian military has carried out a series of long-range strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure and warehouses storing Western-supplied equipment, the Defense Ministry has said. In a statement on Saturday, the ministry said that high-precision air- and sea-based weapons were Read more…


Many trucks, petroleum tankers and vehicles were reportedly trapped around the Oyigbo axis of the Port Harcourt-Aba Expressway in Rivers State on Friday. It was gathered that security operatives blocked the Imo River border between Rivers and Imo over the Read more…