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A petrol station has been engulfed in fire in Lagos. The filling station along Ajayi Road, Ogba, Lagos, went up in flames in the early hours of Tuesday. The Head, Public Affairs of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Nosa Okunbor, confirmed the incident, saying “A petrol station along Ajayi Road is on fire.” He added that recovery operation was ongoing. As at the time of filing this report, the extent of the damage and the cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained.   News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/35FEKHE via EDUPEDIA

Wale Balogun There is currently fear within the Nigerian human rights community over the safety of an activist, Wale Balogun, after he raised the alarm over threats to his life. Balogun, who had three days ago alerted his friends on Facebook of the threat to his life by some unnamed persons, sent a distress message to some of them at about 11:00pm on Monday, saying that he had been cornered and could be killed any moment from that period. Wale Balogun “I’m cornered at Sunrise Ilupeju now, may be killed any moment now,” the distress message on Monday night reads. The message sent panic among fellow comrades on Tuesday morning, who circulated the message and made frantic efforts to find out the whereabouts of Balogun and ascertain if he was safe or not. Before Monday night’s incident, the activist had posted a cryptic message on Facebook, revealing that some hired thugs and security agents had been paid to hunt him down. “They paid their cyber warriors handsomely to twist hi

In three years, spanning 2015 to 2018, the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), estimates that 9.8m highly polluting second-hand vehicles were dumped in low-income countries in Africa, the Middle-East, Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America. High-income countries like the USA, the European Union and Japan are responsible for exporting 14 million second-hand vehicles across the globe within this period, and 70 per cent of them have made their way into poorer countries like Nigeria. The UNEP, in a report, noted that more than 90 per cent of the cars imported into Kenya and the West African nation, were second-hand vehicles. While Kenya has already started taking steps to cut down on its dirty car population, Nigeria is still delaying. The New York Times reports that Kenya now accepts only imports of vehicles not more than eight years old, mainly from Japan. Nigeria and its Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) counterparts, on the other hand, have set 2

The European Union has maintained its support for Nigeria’s former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, to become the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation.  The union had in the previous round backed Okonjo-Iweala. An official of the union on Monday told Reuters that the EU’s support for Okonjo-Iweala is considered a strong signal to reinforce the multilateral order and a sign of mutual trust between the bloc and Africa. In the previous round, the EU selected both Okonjo-Iweala and Yoo Myung-Hee of South Korea. Experts now believe that the EU and the USA, who have historically agreed on decisions like these, may clash. Okonjo-Iweala is promoting the multilateral trading system which the WTO has always leaned on, while the Trump administration has favoured bilateral trades. The USA’s trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, has worked with Myung-Hee and is believed to prefer her candidature. Trump has frustrated the trade body, criticising its decisions and bl

Disturbed by the burning of the shuttle buses in Okitipupa Area of Ondo State, some parents in the local government area have continued to lament over the incident.  Some hoodlums had taken advantage of the protest against police brutality to set the buses on fire last week Thursday.  The buses were parked inside the premises of the secretariat of Okitipupa Local Government Area while the miscreants also razed offices in the building.   The incident has continued to generate adverse reactions from the locals, especially parents whose children travel to and fro by the buses to school. Speaking on Monday, a parent, Kikelomo Ariola, described the incident as very shocking.  She said that the burning of the buses was purely an act of wickedness and could cause economic hardship.  According to her, the incident would hurt the parents and mostly the children who go to school by the shuttle buses.  Abiodun Akinlolu, a father of three, whose children usually boarded the buses to