National Association of Resident Doctors has vowed to resume their suspended nationwide strike on the 30th of July and have handed the government a four-week notice.
The NARD President, UYILAWA OKHUAIHESUYI says the memorandum of action which led to the suspension of the industrial action has not been implemented.
The association is rejecting the proposed 16,000 and 32,000-naira hazard allowance by the federal government.
They are insisting on 50% of the basic salaries as hazard allowance.
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested 21-year-old Chidinma for allegedly killing the Chief Executive Officer, Super TV, Usifo Ataga, in the Lekki area of the state.
The state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, said Chidinma is an undergraduate of the University of Lagos, adding that she had confessed to committing the crime.
Chidinma was paraded at the police command headquarters in Ikeja on Thursday.
While the owner of the rented apartment where the tragic incident took place had been arrested, Odumosu also said Ataga’s account had been blocked to prevent further withdrawals from it by those taking advantage of his untimely death to deplete the account.
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Three persons were crushed to death by a truck at the Total Garden area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
Our correspondent gathered that the incident happened on Wednesday morning.
Some residents told our correspondent that the dead victims were on the same motorcycle and that the Okada rider was trying to overtake the truck when the accident happened.
A man, who claimed to have witnessed the accident, Yinka said the accident was not the fault of the motorcyclist.
The accident reportedly led to tension in the area as some youths and motorcyclists were said to have made an attempt to set the truck ablaze.
The Oyo State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Uche Chukwura, confirmed the accident to our correspondent.
She said, “Three persons died and two were injured in the accident. Our men were there.”
She urged motorists to always drive with caution and ensure that their vehicles were always in good conditions before taking them out.
Residents of Fagba junction, Daddy Savage, Jonathan Coker, Railway Crossing, Pipeline Road and environs in the Ifako Ijaiye Local Government Area of the State are in distress over incessant robberies and killings by hoodlums in the areas.
Some of the residents in an interview said that the attacks had become frequent and that many of the miscreants were not just dispossessing residents and passers-by of their belongings, but were also harming and killing them.
One of the heads of residents' associations in the area, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the attacks were becoming a daily occurrence, adding that three persons were stabbed to death at Fagba junction in the past week.
Another resident, who simply identified himself as FEMI, said the miscreants operate mostly in the early hours of the day and from 8pm, adding that motorists now avoid the Agege-Fagba Road to get to their various destinations.
Cases of traffic robbery especially in the night have also been on the increase in various parts of the metropolis.
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