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Eid-el-Fitr: FRSC warns against drunk driving, deploys radar guns, breathalysers
FRSC cautions against drunk driving, deploys radal guns, breathalysers
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has warned motorists against drunk driving during the Sallah celebrations.
The agency said it has deployed radar guns, breathalysers on major highways.
This is contained in a statement by spokesman for the FRSC, Bisi Kazeem, issued on Wednesday in Abuja.
He said aside from the operational equipment, logistics would also be fully deployed for the special patrol across the country.
He said the FRSC Corps Marshal, Dauda Biu, had directed that all Zebras (emergency response teams) must be active 24/7 and be responsive to calls within the minimum FRSC response time to reported auto crashes to save innocent lives.
“During this Sallah, we expect motorists to obey all traffic rules and regulations and cooperate fully with the FRSC and other law enforcement agencies that will be deployed for traffic management duties.
“Already, Mobile Courts will be in session during the Sallah holiday across the country for prompt dispensation of justice to recalcitrant traffic violators.
“The corridors to be covered are Akwanga-Lafiya-Makurdi, Jos-Bauchi-Gombe, Sokoto-Tambuwal-Jega-Birnin Kebbi corridor, Katsina-Kano-Wudil-Dutse-Azare-Potiskum corridor, Kaduna-Saminaka-Jos corridor, and Abuja-Kaduna-Kano corridor.
“Others are Okene-Ogori-Isua-Owo corridor, Makurdi-Otukpo-Obollo Afor-9th Mile corridor, Asaba-Abraka-Ughelli-Warri corridor, Ibadan-Ogere-Sagamu corridor, Sagamu-Mowe-Lagos corridor, amongst others,” he said.
He said corps operatives had been directed to pay first-rate focus on effective traffic control, wrongful overtaking, use of phone while driving.
According to him, the operatives will also check drivers licence violation, lane discipline, removal of rickety vehicles, driving with expired/worn out tyre and without spare tyre, among others.
Kazeem further said the Corps would go into the exercise with the friendly collaboration with Military Units en-route or resident, the Nigerian Police Force, the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and Department of State Security (DSS).
Others, he said, are the state owned/NGO’s ambulance service providers, National Network on Emergency Rescue Services (NNERS) and Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA).
He called on Muslim Ummah to exemplify the essence of the season, which is love, care and continuous obedience to established laws.
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Father of 12 found dead in Bayelsa brothel after sexual escapade
Father of 12 found dead in Bayelsa brothel after sexual escapade
In Bayelsa State, a middle-aged man has died in a brothel after allegedly lodging with a commercial worker.
The lifeless body of the yet-to-identified man was found on Tuesday in a room at the brothel located in the State Capital, Yenagoa.
According to reports, the deceased, who is said to be a father of 12 children visited the brothel to meet his regular customer at Tombia-Amassoma Road axis of Yenagoa.
The deceased, aged 40, from Delta State, was said to be battling stroke before the unfortunate incident, residents of the area disclosed.
He was said to have left home around 8 am on Tuesday to meet a prostitute as he was of the customers to the commercial sex workers at the brothel, but he was later found dead in the quarters.
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All the commercial sex workers fled on noticing that the man had died.
As at the time of visiting the scene, people living around the area were trying to get the identity of the deceased in order to contact the relative to evacuate the corpse for burial.
It was gathered that security operatives have previously raided the brothel and earmarked it as a red-light zone.
The commander of Vigilante Group of Nigeria, VGN, in Bayelsa State, Mr Tolumobofa Akpoebibo Jonathan, confirmed the incident.
According to him, the deceased is a 40-year-old father of 12 from Delta State.
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Man bags life imprisonment for raping 8-year-old girl in C’River
Man bags life imprisonment for raping 8-year-old girl in C’River
One Aniedi Mfon has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping an 8-year-old girl in Cross River State.
25-year-old Mfon was convicted and sentenced by the Cross River State High Court sitting in Calabar on Tuesday, 7th May 2024.
Justice Blessing Egwu, who delivered the judgement, bemoaned the prevalence of child defilement in the society.
Justice Egwu said the convict has no conscience and she awarded a fine of N1 million be paid to the survivor, who was not named.
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Sources confirmed that Cross River State Commissioner of Police, CP Gyogon Grimah; the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Hon. Ededem Ani; Principal Counsel of Basic Rights Counsel Initiative (BRCI), Barr. James Ibor; and the Prosecutor, Patience Emmanuel Akpama facilitated the prosecution.
Reacting, Barr. James Ibor said the father of the survivor was intimidated and offered bribes to withdraw the case but he resisted.
“I thank the Commissioner of Police and his team, Attorney General Ededem Ani and his team, the staff of the Basic Rights Counsel Initiative, the survivor and her father who resisted intimidation and bribes to back out.”
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