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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J What could have turned out to a major disaster in Magboro, Ogun State along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway was on Thursday averted by the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) with salvaging of a 50,000 litres of truck conveying Premium Motor Spirit otherwise known as petrol from catching fire. The incident occurred during early morning rain when a truck with registration number – Lagos MK88US belonging to MRS skidded off the road and fell on its side into the ditch spilling its content into the area. Hundreds of residents of the area had thronged the scene struggling to scoop fuel before they were dispersed with the arrival of the emergency responders and security operatives from Lagos State. Speaking at the scene of the incident, General Manager of LASEMA, Mr. Adesina Tiamiyu said that the Agency received the distress call at about 9.00am on Thursday through the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC). He said LASEMA swiftly intervened and responded by mobilizi...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Starting line-ups in the Europa League final between Ajax and Manchester United at Friends Arena in Stockholm on Wednesday (1845 GMT kick-off): Ajax (4-3-3) Andre Onana; Joel Veltman, Davinson Sanchez, Matthijs De Ligt, Jairo Riedewald; Davy Klaassen (capt), Lasse Schone, Hakim Ziyech; Bertrand Traore, Kasper Dolberg, Amin Younes Coach: Peter Bosz (NED) Manchester United (4-3-3) Sergio Romero; Antonio Valencia (capt), Chris Smalling, Daley Blind, Matteo Darmian; Paul Pogba, Ander Herrera, Marouane Fellaini; Juan Mata, Marcus Rashford, Henrikh Mkhitaryan Coach: Jose Mourinho (POR) Referee: Damir Skomina (SLO) The post #EuropaFinal : Ajax v Man Utd teams appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2qkCsXZ

http://ift.tt/2qh7Nea Late Senator Isiaka Adeleke The family of Sen. Isiaka Adeleke, who died on April 23, has rejected the coroner inquest instituted by Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun. While addressing a press conference on Sunday in Ede, the immediate younger brother of the deceased, Deji , alleged that the outcome of the inquest was predetermined. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Aregbesola had on May 2 signed an executive order setting up a coroner inquest into the death of the senator. The order was according to the Coroner Law Cap 32 Vol I Law of Osun, 2002. The family, according to Adeleke, however, rejected the coroner inquest in its entirety. “The family, hereby, denounce in its entirety the ill-advised and self-serving coroner inquest ordered by the Osun State Government, purportedly set up to determine the cause of death of our dearly beloved Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke. “We condemn, in strictest terms, the continuous politicisation attempts by ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Timi Frank, has appealed to Prophet T.B Joshua to rescind his decision to locate his church to Israel. Frank made the appeal in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. He said that Joshua’s prayers were needed more now, considering the challenges confronting the country. “I am making this appeal bearing in mind millions of people who daily benefit from welfare programmes of this man of God, not only in Nigeria but in Africa,’’ Frank said. He also called on government at all levels, their agencies and peace-loving religious leaders across the country to prevail on the prophet not to abandon the country. He maintained that Joshua’s presence in Nigeria went beyond religion, adding that it had positive economic impact on the lives of Nigerians and the country. The politician said that statistics from the Nigerian Immigration Service revealed that six out of every 10 travellers to Nigeria visited the country beca...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A student of University of Lagos has been reported to have killed herself after being accused of stealing makeup and clothes in her hostel. //storify.com/Adekunle2/sniper-pesticide/embed?border=false //storify.com/Adekunle2/sniper-pesticide.js?border=false [ View the story “Student drinks Sniper pesticide, kills self ” on Storify ] Ayomide was said to have taken Sniper pesticide, a DDVP, 2,2-Dichlorovinyl dimethyl phosphate compound, marketed by Swiss-Nigerian Chemical Company and used as a synthetic organophosphorus which many now use as an indoor insecticide. Though Vanguard is yet to confirm the veracity of the story but according to Ajani Damilola, a Mechanical Engineering student of the same university, on his Face book post said that Ariyibi Ayomide, a student of the Faculty of Business Administration, Department of Employee Relations and Human Resources Management (ER & HRM) took her own life after her room mates booed her for stealing make up an...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR)  said that Nigeria, the ninth largest gas producing nation in the world, lost over 850 million dollars to gas flaring in 2015. Mrs Pat Maseli, Deputy Director, Head, Upstream, DPR, gave the statistics at the just concluded 10th Annual Sub-Saharan Africa Oil and Gas Conference in Houston, Texas, U.S. This is according to a statement made available to the Newsmen, in Lagos on Sunday by Mr Sonny Oputa, Chairman, Energy Corporate African, the organiser of the conference. Maseli said that the development led to a loss of 3,500 megawatts of electricity generation and about 400 million dollars carbon credit value emission. She said, “55 million Barrels of Oil Equivalent (BOE) was lost and 25 million tons of carbon dioxide emitted. “The country is recording decline, but the scale of gas flaring is still worrisome’’. She said that with almost 8 billion cubic meters of gas flared annually, according to satellite data, Ni...