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An explosion that caused a scare in the Oworonsoki area of Lagos metropolis this afternoon has been traced to a ‘leaking refrigerator’ in a beer shop attached to a residential building in the area. The affected building is a bungalow located at No. 88, Oworo Road, Oworonsoki, Lagos State. Four persons who were injured in the explosion have been hospitalized. Emergency services officials claimed they found some electrical items in the collapsed shop as they carried out their activities on the scene after the incident this afternoon, they claimed not to have found no explosive materials that could suggest it was a bomb. Speaking on the scene to our correspondent, General Manager of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Mr. Micheal Akindele said the agency can authoritatively link the explosion to a defective refrigerator in the shop. However, ourreporter noted that the refrigerator that reportedly caused the explosion remained largely intact. Mr. Akindele s...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has announced a loss of N378.49 billion in its operations for the first eight months of the year. Ibe KachikwuOne of NNPC’s subsidiaries, the Products and Pipeline Marketing Company Limited, PPMC, accounted for majority of the losses, as it spent over N300 billion on subsidy and in the repairs and management of its pipelines between January and August. In the figures presented by NNPC’s Monthly Financial and Operations Report for August, obtained over the weekend, NNPC posted a loss of N60.669 billion and N51.714 billion for the months of July and August, respectively. The loss resulted from expenses being higher than its revenue in the period under review. Specifically, NNPC recorded a total revenue of N1.17 trillion, lower than an expenditure of N1.55 trillion, leaving a deficit of N378.49 billion. In the month of July, NNPC recorded revenue of N149.198 billion and expenses of N200.126 billion, while in August, the grou...

A 46-year-old landlord, simply identified as Sunday, was last Friday arrested for allegedly raping a 10- year-old daughter of his tenant at Bonugo village in Kwali Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). A source who craved anonymity disclosed this to our reporter on Sunday, saying the incident happened after the victim’s parents, who are tenants in Sunday’s house, went out to visit a relative. He said the accused allegedly lured the girl into his room and raped her, causing serious injuries on her private part, adding that it was two days later, when the parents discovered that their daughter was not walking properly that they asked her what was wrong with her. “The man, after raping the girl, threatened to kill her if she told her parents. The mother noticed the abnormal way she was walking and asked her what was wrong but she refused to talk,” he said. City News gathered that it took the intervention of a relative of the victim who threatened to beat he...