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  • Fire Service advises Nigerians on use of candle light

    The Federal Fire Service has advised Nigerians to be careful in handling candle light so as to minimize the risk of fire outbreak associated with its use.

    The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Service, Ugo Huan, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja.

    Huan said that careless handling of candle light had resulted to loss of lives and destruction of property in the country.

    She said that some fire disasters caused by candle light could have been avoided if necessary care had been taken by the users.

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    “Candle fire risk could be minimized by keeping burning candle within sight and extinguishing it while out of sight.

    The PRO also advised users to place burning candle only on candle holders specifically designed for the burning of candles.

    “Avoid burning of candles near combustible items such as window blinds, furniture items, clothing materials, bedding/carpets.

    “Keep burning candles away from children or where they can be kicked off.

    “Burn candles in a well-ventilated room,” she said.

  • Customs strengthens boarder security over codeine ban

    …takes delivery of 50 operation vehicles

     

    Owing to the ban on the manufacturing of codeine, other hard drugs and the tendency of smuggling prohibited substances into the country through boarders, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has further strengthened its border checks and security for codeine.

    Its Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr. Joseph Attah revealed this to The Nation in his Abuja office Thursday.

    He added that in its bid to enforce the illicit drug ban and border patrol, the service has just taken delivery of 50 operation vehicles that were being painted for operation.

    The Customs spokesman said that “We know that each time there is a policy of government that restricts or prohibits the importation of any item, the tendency is for unpatriotic elements to circumvent it by engaging in its smuggling.

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    “Like any other prohibited item, we will be on the watch out for it (codeine). We will seize them. You are aware that we have been seizing illicit drugs like tramadol and some drugs without NAFDAC approval and all that.

    “We will continue to do what we do and ensure that any of such prohibited drugs, not only codeine, any other prohibited items, is not allowed to get into the country.”

    Attah said for any prohibited item not to slip into Nigeria now that local manufacturers have stopped production of codeine, the NCS would receive more patrol vehicles this year.

    According to him, “already we have taken delivery of 50 Hilux patrol vehicles and we are expecting more. The idea is to beef up our logistic in such a way that we are very mobile and very swift in arriving the scene of a crime. So, with the acquisition of more vehicles and the deployment of intelligence operatives, we expect that we will be able to step up our boarder policing this year.”

  • Kano Fire Service saved 126 lives

    Kano Fire Service saved 126 lives

    The Kano State Fire Service said on Thursday that it saved 126 lives and goods worth N142 million from 116 fire outbreaks in the state in February.

    The Public Relations Officer ( PRO ) of the service, Alhaji Saidu Mohammed, however, told our reporter,  in Kano that 13 lives were lost in the incidents.

    Mohammed said about 18 houses were affected in the fire outbreaks while properties valued at N57 million were destroyed during the period.

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    He said that the service received 84 rescue calls and 23 false alarms from the residents during the month.

    Mohammed said that the major causes of the fire outbreaks were the use of inferior electrical materials, poor handling of electrical appliances, cooking gas and boiling ring as well as accidents.

    He advised the general public to be careful in this dry season to stop storing petroleum products in their shops and houses so as to forestall unforeseen dangers.

    NAN

  • Two die in Ogun auto crash

    Two persons were confirmed dead in a road accident involving a blue Toyota Corolla car and a Toyota picnic bus at Olodo area, on Abeokuta/Ibadan Expressway in Ogun.

    Mr. Babatunde Akinbiyi, the Public Relations Officer (PRO), Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE) in Ogun, confirmed the accident to newsmen in Abeokuta on Tuesday.

    Akinbiyi explained that the accident occurred on Monday evening due to wrong overtaking by the driver of the Toyota Corolla car.

    He stated that the two vehicles had three occupants each, saying that the dead were the drivers of both vehicles.

    Akinbiyi said, “The accident involved a Toyota Corolla car with registration number KSF 846 EF and a Toyota picnic bus with registration number RLG 61 AA.

    “The driver of the Toyota Corolla car tried to overtake the Toyota Picnic space bus which resulted in collision that led to the crash.

    “The vehicles had three passengers each when the accident occurred, three male and three female but the drivers of both vehicles died in the accident.”

    The official said that the victims were taken to Omo Arewa Clinic in Odeda while one female in critical condition was rushed to Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta.

  • NDLEA arrests 51 suspects, seize drugs in Oyo

    NDLEA arrests 51 suspects, seize drugs in Oyo

    The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Oyo state command, said it arrested 51 suspected drug traffickers and addicts from January to date.

    A statement by the state command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mrs Mutiat Okuwobi, on Sunday in Ibadan, disclosed that 1,933.28 kg of drugs were also seized during the period.

    The PRO added that the agency also got the conviction of 17 drug traffickers with jail terms ranging from six months to five years in the period under review.

    She said interventions were also given to some drug dependants persons through counselling after which they were reintegrated into the society.

    The PRO said some drug users were still undergoing rehabilitation.

    She said that the command would continue to do its best to frustrate the activities of drug peddlers in the state.