The Marine Police on Thursday said its men rescued three persons on Pashi River, Badagry, Lagos State, when their boat capsized on July 29.
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BANS SPEED BOATS ON LAGOS WATERS
Following the death of five persons last week in a boat accident and a series of boat mishaps on Lagos waterways, the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) yesterday banned the activities of speed boats on Lagos waterways.
Continue reading »12 DEAD IN LAGOS BOAT MISHAP
Twelve people were killed when a passenger boat capsized in Nigeria’s commercial hub of Lagos on Sunday, the government said, blaming the accident on overcrowding.
Continue reading »7 DIED, 136 MISSING IN KEBBI BOAT ACCIDENT
No fewer than seven people have died and seven hospitalized in Ngaski Local Government Area of Kebbi when a boat carrying 150 passengers returning from Malali Market capsized along River Niger. The Coordinator of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), in-charge of Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara States, Alhaji Sulaiman Muhammad, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ngaski […]
Continue reading »BOAT ACCIDENTS IN NIGER STATE LEAVES 13 DEAD
No fewer than thirteen people, comprising 13 females and two males, have died in two separate boat accidents in Niger State. The accident, said to be involving mostly females occurred in the early morning of Tuesday when the boat they were travelling in capsized on the Kontagora River in Magama Local Government Area of the state. The accident, according to […]
Continue reading »EKITI STATE GOVT ISSUES STATEMENT ON BOAT ACCIDENT, LIST NAMES OF VICTIMS
The Ekiti State Government says the four persons who died during the week after their boat capsized at Egbe Dam in Gbonyin Local Government Area of the state were neither World Bank officials nor workers of the state government. It had been reported earlier that four World Bank Consultants drowned in Egbe River on Tuesday night.
Continue reading »FOUR WORLD BANK CONSULTANTS DIES IN EKITI BOAT ACCIDENT
Four World Bank consultants have drowned in Egbe River in Egbe community of Gbonyin Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The four were said to be workers on a World Bank assessment mission to the river and had commenced work on Tuesday night. They were said to have come from the Development Dams and Irrigation Schemes, Kaduna State and had […]
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