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By Rebecca Amos It is something that goes on daily but not many road users notice as long as the road is clean and free for them to ply. Not many take into cognizance the presence of the forlorn women, some with kids strapped to their back, sweeping, collecting debris and singing their jeremiads away. But they are always there doing what has been assigned to them by the job owners-those big contractors engaged by the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, to keep the ever expansive and numerous roads in the FCT clean. Abuja road sweepers Clearly, as the motorists drive away, there are hundreds of people working their hearts out to make the roads clean for everyone. But as hard as the sweepers in Abuja work to keep the roads tidy, they receive little in return in terms of pay and respect from road users. In fact, it is as if what they get is double jeopardy in their quest to serve Nigerians in their places of work. The hassles come from s...

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Written by Pastor Fidel Aduaye-Odiete The general notion in the world is that Christianity is a religion. This is also the notion of several Christians, that Christianity is a religion. Some of these use this text as the basis for their conclusion: " If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world." James 1:26-27 NKJV MY TAKE: While Christianity contains elements of pure religion, Christianity is MORE THAN a religion. James, in the text given above, defines pure religion as something that contains two fundamental elements: 1- Genuine Love for those in need. 2- Keeping oneself from worldly filth. That is religion as defined by James. Christianity is evidently much more than that. The definition do...

The trucks parked at Johnson Street - nine of them paid 10000 naira each The Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) Kirikiri Branch who is one of the 46 unions currently affiliated with the Nigerian Labour Congress  (NLC)  has pointed accusing fingers to the community boys saying that they are fond of illegally passing unsuspecting trucks from the link bridge down to the end of the line and collect huge sums of money ranging from NGN60,000 - NGNG100,000 per truck. Weeks ago, a young man Onyekachi, died as a result of road congestion caused by the truck drivers insensitivity and traffic/surveillance officers carelessness and neglect.

By  Oyibo Salihu Youth in Lokoja Tuesday set one of the trucks belonging to Dangote Cement Company, Obajana ablaze for killing a father and his son. An eyewitness, Mr. Tunde Shauibu, said the empty truck was about negotiating the bend leading to Zone 8 when it lost control and crushed a pedestrian who was standing by the road side with his two sons.  Shaibu further stated that the middle aged man was crushed by the truck alongside one of his sons while two of his children narrowly escaped.  It was gathered that the people who witnessed the incident, out of provocation, attacked the driver of the truck and set it ablaze. Speaking on the unfortunate incident, the Police Public Relations Officer, Kogi state police command, William Aya, said the truck lost control at Zone 8 roundabout and crushed a pedestrian and injured one other person who was taken to hospital for treatment.He stated that the incident made the people in the area take laws into their hands and set the t...

An explosion in an apartment building that came under fire from a Russian army tank in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 11, 2022. Evgeniy Maloletka—AP BY MSTYSLAV CHERNOV AND YURAS KARMANAU / AP MARIUPOL, Ukraine — Russian forces pounding the port city of Mariupol shelled a mosque that was sheltering more than 80 people, including children, the Ukrainian government said Saturday. Fighting also raged in the outskirts of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and Russia kept up its bombardment of other resisting cities. There was no immediate word of casualties from the shelling of Mariupol’s elegant, city-center mosque. The encircled city of 446,000 people has endured some of Ukraine’s worst misery since Russia invaded, with unceasing barrages thwarting repeated attempts to bring in food, water and medicine, evacuate trapped civilians and even bury the dead. “They are bombing it (Mariupol) 24 hours a day, launching missiles. It is hatred. They kill children,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said d...

Doctors in India were stunned to remove a tapeworm measuring more than 6 feet through a patient's mouth, according to a report published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.

A Quarterly Report by the Lagos State Ministry of Justice Criminal Information System (LCIS) has revealed that 9,044 inmates were detained in five prisons in the area between Jan. and March 2019. The report, which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), identified the Ikoyi prison, Kirikiri Medium prison, Kirikiri Maximum prison, Female prison, and Badagry prison, as the five detention centres mentioned. It said that the five prisons had the capacity to accommodate on 4,087 inmates. The report revealed that out of the 9,044 inmates in detention across the five prisons, the 54 that were granted bail were unable to meet the bail conditions, while 34 prisoners were able to secure their bail having been able to pay fines ranging from N5, 000 to N10, 000. According to the report, while the Ikoyi prison has 2,976 inmates instead of 800 based on its actual capacity, the Kirikiri medium prison is harbouring 3,925 inmates instead of 1,700, Kirikiri Maxi...

Largest mobile network in Nigeria, MTN has banned midnight calls. This statement was issued and confirmed during a conversation with a customer care agent who said it was an order from the management.

Residents of Soliyi, a densely populated community in Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State, are living a nightmare due to the gridlock on the only access road into the community caused by construction by Deeper Life Bible Church.