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An Ado-Ekiti-born mini-truck driver, Adeleye Adeniyi, has said he borrowed N3.5m to support the re-election bids of President Bola Tinubu, Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele and Ekiti State House of Assembly member Steve Fatoba.Adeniyi, popularly known as “Online Loan Man for BAO”, disclosed this in an interview with journalists now circulating on Friday, in which he displayed a Wema Bank cardboard cheque indicating N2m for Tinubu, N1m for Bamidele and N500,000 for Fatoba.He said he was prepared to campaign for the three politicians ahead of the forthcoming elections, citing what he described as their performance in office.“I am supporting Mr President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for his second-term ambition. I have borrowed money. I want to use this money to support him because he...

A mother and her 14-year-old daughter have d!ed after a three-storey building under construction collapsed at Anata Anaba, Okpoko, in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State.The incident occurred at about 9:45 pm on Wednesday, October 8, 2026, trapping the mother and her daughter inside their apartment in a neighbouring bungalow.Eyewitnesses said the building made a loud noise, with its walls reportedly cracking before the structure came crashing down, throwing residents into panic.Some other people trapped in the rubble were rescued by emergency responders and taken to hospital, according to residents.“The woman and her daughter were in their apartment in a nearby bungalow when the three-storey building collapsed and trapped them. Before the building caved in, it mad...

The organised labour movement in the Federal Capital Territory has been thrown into sharp division as unions expressed divergent views  over the indefinite strike declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, FCT Council.The NLC had on Wednesday directed workers in the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, including those in the private sector, to begin an indefinite strike on Wednesday.The strike was over unresolved disputes between the FCTA and the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT.However, while the Trade Union Congress, TUC, had instructed its members to ignore the strike and report for work, the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, threw its full weight behind the action.TUC in a notice, signed by the Secretary in FCT, Mr Sunday Jose...

Russia has continued its invasion against Ukraine for more than four years and is showing no signs of backing down. At leaat 33 people were k!lled when Russia carried out a bomb attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, authorities said on ​Thursday, October 8. The Ukrainian authorities described the latest bombing as a targeted strike on civilians in the key ‌stronghold sought by Moscow.Another 18 people were wounded in one of the largest single attacks this year, which took place on a street where police said two city buses were operating at the time of the strike.President Volodymyr ​Zelensky described it as a bus stop.Images posted by police showed bodies ​strewn across a street littered with debris, as well as a ⁠charred shell of wha...

A train and a Honda car collided this morning, October 9, in Lagos State. The collision took place at the PWD railway crossing, along Agege Motor Road, Ikeja.  This was disclosed on X by LASTMA. A video of the collision shows the mangled remains of the Honda car as locals gathered around it and tried to push it away from the train tracks. It was not stated if any casualties were recorded.  The tweet shared by LASTMA reads: "A collision involving a train and a Honda car was reported on the rail tracks at PWD seriously affecting vehicular movement at the moment. "The car has been pushed off the tracks now by onlookers as Effort is on for evacuation. Officers are on ground managing the traffic situati...