Using of phone while driving is madness – FRSC Boss

Why the US-Iran tensions are driving up oil prices

The Special Adviser to Nigeria’s President on Social Investment, Maryam Uwais, says it is critical for global stakeholders to think more inclusively. She also stressed the importance of driving the human capital elements across states in Nigeria. Uwais joins CNBC Africa’s Kenneth Igbomor for more ahead of the 2020 World Economic Forum.

Reps ban FRSC from highway chase

The coronavirus pandemic is posing a major challenge in Africa. With not much help expected from donors, the continent's tech geniuses are inventing quick and cheap solutions to curb the spread of the virus.

A police officer in the western US state of Utah was stunned after stopping what he thought was an impaired driver on a highway only to find a 5-year-old behind the wheel. The Utah Highway Patrol says the boy told the trooper who pulled him over on Monday that he left home, with only three dollars in his wallet, following an argument with his mother who had refused to buy him a Lamborghini. In a dash-cam video of the incident released by the department, the SUV the boy was driving is seen weaving across the freeway as other vehicles and trucks speed by. The car then pulls over to the left side of the highway after the trooper activates his siren.

It is a scene repeated the world over: pedestrians glued to their phones while walking, causing collisions and sometimes accidents. No more, says one Japanese city.

What's driving North Korea's aggression toward the South?

World Health Organization experts warn that spikes in coronavirus transmission in a number of countries are being driven by young people, who "must take the same precautions to protect themselves and protect others" says WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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Joe Biden says he spoke by telephone with Jacob Blake, the black man gravely wounded when a white policeman shot him repeatedly in the back in Wisconsin. "He talked about how nothing was going to defeat him, how whether he walked again or not, he was not going to give up," Biden tells a community meeting at a church in Kenosha.

Multiple accidents occurred in the wuse area of Abuja after an FRSC official chased a car on the highway.

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