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...says 173,573 vehicles installed speed limiters in 7 years THE Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has disclosed that road crashes claimed 1,441 lives on Nigerian roads between January and March 2023. The Corps Marshal, Dauda Biu, made this known at a stakeholders’ meeting on ‘Development and Implementation of Policy on Pre-fitted Speed Limiting Devices on Locally Assembled and Imported Vehicles in Nigeria’, yesterday. According to him, the victims were killed in 2,733 crashes, in which 8,339 other persons were injured. He said: “In Nigeria, the picture is not different from global experience as speed emerged as the highest contributory factor of road crashes, injuries, and deaths. “The most worrisome part is that more than 89 per cent of the crashes were speed-induced. This observation led the FRSC to begin to search for a lasting solution having observed that behavioral and attitudinal change methods alone cannot bring the desired result. “We took that bold step to nip this menace in ...

Personnel of 9 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, yesterday, recovered 1,671 Permanent Voters  Cards,  PVCs,  in an apartment in the Olodi-Apapa area of Lagos State. Three persons were subsequently arrested in the apartment, while the prime suspect was said to be on the run. Also recovered in the apartment were ballot papers, cutlasses and Indian hemp. It was gathered that the startling discovery was made in the course of preliminary investigation into an incident that occurred in the area, yesterday.  The Brigade Commander, Brig. Gen. Isang Akpaumontia, who paraded the suspects and recovered PVCs, ballot papers and other items before journalists at the Ikeja Cantonment, said the arrest and recovery were made following a tip-off. Most of the recovered PVCs had the year 2022 as registration number, while others had years 2011, 2012 and 2021with all the owners being residents of Lagos State.   Briefing journalists Akpaumontia said: “Earlier today (yesterday), thre...

*As PDP inaugurates Atiku/Okowa Campaign Council No fewer than 1,200 leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Labour Party, LP, yesterday, joined the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bayelsa State. The decampees were announced by the Special Adviser to Bayelsa State Governor on Political Matters, Chief Collins Cocodia, during the inauguration of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council in Yenagoa. Prominent among the defectors were former Director-General of the APC Governorship Campaign Council in 2019, Prof. Seiyefa Brisibe; Dr. Steven Ogola, Mr. Lucky Amadi, Chief Ebikiri Akpolo, Mr. Edwin Oweibi, Adolphus Agwuo, Steven Adaka, Abaka Tamaraebi, Kankada Ebipabowei, Chief Ebikitin Diongoli, Adagbayan Hammoh, Kingsley Mirin and thousands of their followers. Speaking on behalf of the defectors, Brisibe and Ogola said men of good conscience cannot remain in the APC as the party lacked leadership and integrity. They said their time in the APC was like being in the wildernes...