The Chicago Bears will take on the Green Bay Packers to open the 2023 NFL season, and their players are more than prepared for the battle with their divisional foes. Bears Are Ready For Sunday, “People Hate Green Bay” “I’m itching. It’s Packers week… People hate Green Bay. I hate …
Read More »Passengers scamper for safety as commercial bus catches fire in Lagos
Passengers scampered for safety when a commercial bus they boarded caught fire at CMD Road, near Seven Up bus stop in Lagos state on Sunday, September 3. The driver of the bus was alerted that there was fire under his bus. A video shared online showed passengers jumping …
Read More »Raiders Safety Gets Called For Helmet-to-Helmet Personal Foul on Legal Hit Against 49ers
The Las Vegas Raiders were on the wrong end of the first egregious personal foul of the NFL season. Luckily, it was just the preseason and it didn’t result in points for the other team. Still, this was a bad call and a reminder of some of the bad calls …
Read More »Expert calls for implementation of safety regulations, standardisation in firefighting in Nigeria
Akama, who is also the Managing Director, Assetbow Limited, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday, July 17, 2023 in Abuja. He said that the implementation of proper safety regulations and standards was necessary for better coordination and synergy in firefighting. “As you …
Read More »Odumodublvck Runs For Safety, Bella Shmurda, Others Injured At Poco Lee’s LASU Concert
The ‘Homecoming’ concert of Lagos State University (LASU) alumnus and popular dancer, Pascal Odinaka, popularly known as Poco Lee, ended abruptly on Thursday evening. Naija News understands that there was chaos at the concert venue yesterday, forcing the likes of rapper, Tochukwu Gbubemi Ojogwu, popularly known as Odumodublvck, to scamper …
Read More »James Cameron Blasts OceanGate Sub’s Lack of Safety Standards
The OceanGate Titan submersible story ended in tragedy this week, as the vessel reportedly imploded, killing all five passengers during a descent to view the Titanic’s wreckage. News programs immediately brought in experts on deep sea diving and the Titanic to discuss what happened and none has been more vocal …
Read More »Road Safety Week: African nations steer towards reducing deaths
Increasingly grim accident statistics provided the impetus for action, including two bus crashes in Senegal that claimed 62 lives in January. In nearby Côte d’Ivoire, the daily number of fatal road accidents has risen to 46, from just 12 in 2012. In the world’s region most affected by road crashes, …
Read More »UN Plan of Action on Safety of Journalists
Credit: Shutterstock Opinion by Audrey Azoulay (paris) Monday, May 01, 2023 Inter Press Service PARIS, May 01 (IPS) – Freedom of the press is the cornerstone of democratic society. Without a debate of ideas, without verified facts, without diversity of perspectives, democracy is a shadow of itself; and World Press Freedom …
Read More »Rising to the Challenge: The UN Road Safety Fund in a Polycrises World
An aerial photograph of a busy roundabout in Lusaka Zambia. Credit: UNRSF. Opinion by Nneka Henry (geneva) Thursday, April 27, 2023 Inter Press Service GENEVA, Apr 27 (IPS) – Nneka Henry is Head of UN Road Safety FundCrises may be a centuries-old phenomenon, but so too is human resilience. The high …
Read More »Safety Net Barriers Add to Child Poverty in Immigrant Families
NASHVILLE — Jacqueline Acevedo is a shy seventh grader who spends long hours at the Baptist church where her father serves as a volunteer pastor after earning a scant wage from his day job selling bread. Gabriel Garcia is a talkative 10-year-old whose mother is a chemist but drives for …
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