The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Wednesday reiterated its commitment to safeguard the right of road users on the highways, especially during the festive period.

Mr Sunday Maku, the FRSC Sector Commander in Kwara, made the assertion at the 2017 “Ember Months’’ campaign themed “Right to Life on The Highway is Not Negotiable’’ in Oro, Irepodun Local Government Area.

According to Maku, every human being is always under continuous threat in many ways, particularly through road traffic crashes.

The number of stranded Nigerians that are voluntarily returning from Libya has reached 401 following the arrival of 257 persons.

The latest batch of 144 Nigerians arrived the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos at about 1:30 am on Wednesday.

The first set of returnees, who arrived at the cargo area of the airport aboard a Boeing 737 aircraft on Tuesday night, consists of 39 female, 97 male, two children and six infants.

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Kacalla Baru, Tuesday, cut short his trip to London, as concerns increased over the sudden fuel queues nationwide

Dr. Baru, who was billed to receive the Forbes Oil & Gas Man of the Year Award 2017 in the British Capital on Tuesday, flew back home to attend to what he described as a “matter of urgent national importance.”

Speaking on the development shortly before his departure back to the country, Baru called on Nigerians to stop panic buying as the corporation was doing everything within its reach to address the situation.

The Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS) has sacked eight junior officers for various acts of indiscipline including smuggling of prohibited items into prison yards for inmates.

Spokesman of the NPS, Mr Francis Enobore, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.

Enobore said the smuggled items included cell phones, marijuana and other intoxicating substances.

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Jigawa has approved the re-deployment of 52 nursing and pregnant corps members to states of their choice.

Speaking on Tuesday in Dutse, the state NYSC coordinator, Mr Michael Amolo said that the NYSC authority had also approved the re-deployment of 10 other corps members with health challenges.

“As for now, this is the number of corps members seeking re-deployment; we will listen to those with genuine cases but will not entertain those with flimsy reasons.

The Ebonyi Government has released the sum of N1.5 billion to settle arrears of pension and gratuities owed state and local government retirees from 2006 to 2017, a top government official has said.

Mr Samuel Okoronkwo, the state Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abakaliki.

Okoronkwo said that government accorded the welfare of retired workers of the state top priority and as such, would ensure that retirees’ benefits were paid regularly as a way of enhancing their living standard.