Tanker Drivers Shut Down Oshodi-Apapa Expressway

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Apapa / Oshodi expressway has literally been shutdown since Friday.

APAPA /OSHODI expressway has literally been shutdown since Friday with yesterday being the most agonizing for motorists. The shutdown was caused by tankers and trailers that seized the major economic artery of the country.

Standstill at Mile-2 to Tincan, along Oshodi-Apapa expressway as a result of Fuel tanker Illegal parking on the road, the journey of 5mins torus to 7 hour, yesterday. When contacted, the Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Kayode, lamented the situation, saying the federal agencies had to do the needful to help traffic situation at Apapa.

All law enforcement agencies pleaded helplessness yesterday with the policemen disappearing from the roads completely leaving trapped  motorists at the mercy of thieves.

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Stop Bemoaning Our Exit; Fix PDP, Nigeria’s Problems, 5 APC Govs Reply Jonathan

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• Five former governors of the PDP, who defected to the APC, last December, asked Jonathan to stop bemoaning their exit but to find urgent answers to the problems bedevilling his party and Nigeria.
• The President, who also likened the five governors and other defecting politicians to chameleons, said such politicians should not be trusted, as they continued to change their platforms.

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B' Haram Crisis: Change Tactics, PDP Govs Tell GEJ

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EIGHTEEN governors under the aegis of Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum, yesterday, took a critical appraisal of the security situation in the country with the Boko Haram killing and maiming of innocent people almost on a daily basis in the North Eastern part of the country unchallenged.

They urged the Federal Government to change its tactics of fighting the insurgents.
PDP governors made the appeal on a day President Goodluck Jonathan and Senate President, David Mark called for prayers to overcome the nation’s security challenges.

The Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, on its part, announced that it had set up a new unit, the Border Patrol Corps, to patrol the nation’s land borders, especially in the North-East, to stem attacks by insurgents.

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Bayelsa Drags EFCC To Court Over Alamieyesiegha Loot

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• The Bayelsa State Govt has asked an Abuja Federal High Court to order the EFCC to immediately remit to it the N1.4bn, and another $1.3m recovered from a former governor of the state.
• Uboh said in line with the said mandate, he wrote to the EFCC requesting that the funds be remitted within seven days.
• The Government also wants the court to order EFCC to pay 21 per cent interest on the N1.4bn and the $1.3m from November 1, 2013, until the final determination of the matter.

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Yobe State Committee Investigation Raid On Boarding School Discovers Fresh Burnt Bodies

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• Yobe State Committee investigating the Boko Haram raid on Federal Government College visited the site today.
• The chairman: We visited the school and … discovered that some students missing, whose corpses could not be found.”
• Mustapha added, "There are other missing students that we realized were burned beyond recognition.

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Amaechi Tells Jonathan PDP Can’t Win Rivers

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• Amaechi, has dismissed Jonathan’s declaration that the PDP will take over Rivers State in the 2015 general elections.
• Amaechi Stated that More than 90 per cent of the voting population in Rivers State is APC.
• You can see that Rivers is an APC state and they can’t take it.

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