FRSC records 9,227 death in 19,787 car accidents in 2 years
The Federal Road Safety Corps has said that from January to December this year, it recorded 9,483 crashes with 4,427 deaths. Acting FRSC Corps Marshall, Dauda Biu, disclosed this in Abuja. He said this was an eight percent reduction in the last year’s incident which recorded 10,304 crashes and 4,800 deaths. He said part of […]
Chairman of ACF dies at age 85
The chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Arewa Consultative Forum, Ambassador Shehu Malami, is dead. According to a statement released today by the Secretary General of the ACF, Murtala Aliyu, Malami died on Monday in Cairo, Egypt, at age 85. The ACF scribe noted that at various times Malami was Nigeria’s Ambassador to […]
INEC warns media Practitioners to avoid breaking News Syndrome
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has urged media practitioners to avoid landmines and breaking news syndrome, while reporting the 2023 general elections. INEC’s National Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye, stated this during a one-day capacity building for journalists in the South West on Conflict Sensitive Reporting and the 2023 […]
Procyon Radio News Monday 19, 2022
Good evening! Below are the major bulletin for 6pm news on procyon radio 1. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says it has removed polling units from shrines, churches, mosques, and homes of powerful politicians. CONTINUE READING 2. The gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in Kaduna State in next year’s elections, Jonathan Asake, […]
Countries seal deal to protect nature despite DRC objection ī
Countries have reached a landmark agreement at a marathon United Nations biodiversity summit to protect the world’s land and oceans and provide critical financing to save biodiversity in the developing world despite objections from some African countries. The chair of the COP15 nature summit, Chinese Environment Minister Huang Runqiu, declared the deal adopted at a […]
Ramaphaso emerge as South African president
Cyril Ramaphosa has been re-elected as the President of South Africa under the African National Congress. Ramaphosa won his re-election bid with 2,476 votes to defeat his rival, a former health minister, Zweli Mkhize. His re-election comes after his opponents asked him to step down over a scandal known as ‘Farmscandal’ involving the discovery […]
IPOB accuses President Buhari and DSS of attempt elimination of leader
The Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB has accused the Nigerian Government and the Department of State Services DSS of trying to kill its leader Nnamdi Kanu. The spokesman of IPOB, Emma Powerful said that Kanu is battling heart problem and mineral deficiencies which requires a specialist. Powerful stressed that the situation where the DSS has […]
Fake new 1000 naira notes in circulation
Few days after the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN released the redesigned naira notes in the denominations of 200, 500 and 1,000 naira notes, fake copies of the new 1000 naira notes have been released into the economy. A mobile money and bank agent in a video disclosed this saying that a customer performed a […]
NAFDAC warns Nigerians against fake covid-19 test kits
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted Nigerians about counterfeit Covid-19 Antigen rapid test kits in circulation. The Agency made this known in a public alert released to journalist. The counterfeit BTNX Incorporated COVID-19 rapid antigen test kits were communicated to NAFDAC by Health Canada. Health Canada had said […]
EU vows support towards credible polls in Nigeria
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the European Union has pledged to support credible polls in Nigeria. Speaking during a visit to Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki at the Government House in Benin City the European union Ambassador to Nigeria Samuela Isopi said Nigeria’s progress is of importance as its partner and continental neighbor and […]