Drivers’ license: FRSC begins CBT for new applicants

The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Boboye Oyeyemi, has ordered the commencement of computer-based tests for fresh applicants of the national driver’s license.

This was contained in a statement released on Thursday where Oyeyemi ordered the commencement of Computer Based Test (CBT) for fresh applicants of the National Driver’s License in all the Driving Schools nationwide effective from 1 June 2021.

He, therefore, called on the various State Governments to expedite action by ensuring that the State Motor Licensing Authorities key into this life-saving programme as Driving Schools have been mandated to ensure compliance with immediate effect, and advised State Governments to ensure CBT is compulsory for all applicants before driving tests are done. 

Gunshots Fired as Imo Speaker Removes Chief Whip, Suspends Six Others 

There were sporadic gunshots and chaos at the Imo State House of Assembly on Thursday following the suspension of six lawmakers over alleged unparliamentary conduct by the Speaker, Paul Emeziem.

The House also removed the Chief Whip, Authur Egwim, (Ideato North, APC), and replaced him with Obinna Okwara (Nkwerre, APC).

Sources told newsmen that four All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers and two from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) were among those suspended. 

5 die, 2 injured in Ota road crash

The Ogun Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said that five people were killed and two other people sustained injuries in an accident that involved a car and a stationary truck around the Honda area on Ota-Idiroko Road on Thursday night.

The State Sector Commander of FRSC, Ahmed Umar, who confirmed the accident on Friday in Ota, said that the accident, which involved a Toyota Camry car and a truck which happened at about 11.45 p.m. due to alleged excessive speeding and dangerous driving on the part of the driver of the car.

Umar described the crash as avoidable and advised motorists to avoid excessive speed and dangerous driving and to obey traffic regulations to prevent unnecessary loss of lives.

He commiserated with the families of the dead and prayed to God to grant them the fortitude to bear the irreplaceable losses. 

25-year-old final student of Unilorin bags three-year jail for N35m internet fraud

A 25-year-old student of the University of Ilorin, Giwa Nurudeen, on Thursday, bagged three years in jail having been found guilty of offences bordering on internet fraud.

Giwa Nurudeen was arraigned before a Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin, presided over by Justice Sikiru Oyinloye by the Ilorin Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a three-count charge of internet fraud and cybercrime, of which he pleaded guilty to.

Nurudeen, a native of Ibadan, capital of Oyo State, ran into trouble on May 4^th 2021, when operatives of the anti-graft agency received credible intelligence about activities of some suspected internet fraudsters operating around the Tanke area of Ilorin, along the University of Ilorin road, during which he was arrested.

Counsel to the EFCC, Sesan Ola, led Idam Chukwuemeka, an operative of the agency, to review the facts of the case, and he told the court how the investigation extracted a sum of thirty-five million naira suspected to be proceeds of crime in one of his accounts.

Kidnapped Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic Students, Staff Members Released 

The six students and two staff members of Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic in Zaria Kaduna State, who were kidnapped by bandits have been released. 

They were released on Thursday night at an undisclosed location in Kaduna.

The Public Relations Officer of the Polytechnic, Abdullahi Shehu, who confirmed the development, said the kidnapped students and staff members regained their freedom after their parents and relatives negotiated with the bandits but, however, did not say specifically if any ransom was paid or not.

The school authorities will receive the students later in the day at a location where they were kept after their release.