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Many people have been feared dead in an accident on Karu Bridge along the Nyanya-Keffi road in the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), Abuja. Eyewitnesses reports that the crash which occurred around 5:30 pm involved a trailer and a vehicle conveying sachet water, commonly known as “pure water.” The incident comes barely 24 hours after a…
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Not less than nine persons have been confirmed dead by the Federal Road Safety Commission, Ogun State sector in an accident that occurred around Ayetoro on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in the early hours of Monday. Three others sustained various degrees of injuries in the road crash. The accident, which reportedly occurred at about 5:30 am,…
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Tragedy struck when an auto crash involving an articulated vehicle in Kogi claimed the lives of seven people, including four students from the Federal University, Lokoja (FUL), while another student sustained injuries. Mr Samuel Oyedeji, the FRSC Kogi Sector Commander, revealed the details to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja on Monday, attributing…
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A tanker crash in Enugu on Saturday claimed 18 lives, while 13 people were rescued. A statement signed by Olusegun Ogungbemide, Assistant Corps Marshal and Corps Public Education Officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), disclosed that the crash involved 17 vehicles, including a petroleum-laden tanker, a water tanker, 15 other vehicles, and a…
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Not less than 12 persons have been reported dead with several others sustaining injuries of varying degrees following an auto accident on Wednesday in Ilorin, Kwara State. The multiple auto accident which occurred at the Oko-Olowo area of the Ilorin -Jebba federal highway, at about 5:30pm involved an articulated trailer vehicle with registration number AYE…
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A dispatch rider riding along the Lekki-Epe Expressway in Lagos State was killed in an accident following a multiple-vehicle collision on Friday. This is just as two other persons sustained a fractured leg injury in the accident that occurred near the Chevron end of the expressway. According to a statement on Friday by the Director…
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Not less than eight persons have been confirmed dead in a raging inferno started from an incident involving an oil tanker in Ometan community, Okpe local government area of Delta State. Information gathered is that the unfortunate incident occurred on Friday when the tanker coming from Effurun in Warri reportedly lost control while overtaking another…
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No fewer than 14 persons on Sunday died in a head-on collision involving two Toyota buses in Kogi State. The accident occurred at Aloma community in Ofu Local Government Area of the state. An eyewitness told NAN that the accident involved a Toyota Sienna bus heading toward Abuja from Port Harcourt and a Toyota Hiace…
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The Federal Road Safety Corps ( FRSC) said on Monday that 13 persons died while two were injured in an auto crash in Kogi. Samuel Oyedeji, Kogi FRSC sector commander, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the sad incident occurred around 7:30 p.m. on Sunday. He disclosed that the accident involving a commercial…
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By Opeyemi Adeoti A man simply identified as Baba Shadrach was killed at the weekend when a truck carrying sand hit him and his two sons while riding his motorcycle popularly called Okada. The incident occured on Saturday around 6:00 am when the deceased was reportedly going to the farm with his children. One of…
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