Tragedy has struck the education sector in Delta State as a bus conveying secondary principals who were traveling for an all-important education meeting was on Friday involved in a ghastly motor accident killing at least four of the principals while nine others are said to be battling for their lives. It was learnt that the principals were travelling to Kwale […]
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The Giron-Masa community, in the Shanga Local Government Area of Kebbi State has been thrown into mourning after 22 traders, who were returning home from a market, were killed in a road crash. PUNCH Metro learnt that the bus driver had attempted to avoid a pothole when he hit a motorcyclist, which made the bus to somersault several times before […]
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A lorry has crushed dead four policemen attached to X Squad of the Lagos State Police Command. The command in a statement said the policemen were killed when a lorry ran over their patrol van along Shagamu Road, Isiwu, Ikorodu Sunday afternoon. The patrol van was said to be chasing another patrol van that allegedly extorted money from some motorists. […]
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No fewer than 25 people were on Monday feared dead on the ever-busy Owerri – Onitsha expressway in Imo State when two heavy duty trucks collided with two hummer buses. The tragedies happened at Catering school Junction and Okpokija Junction, respectively in Irete community in the Owerri West Local Government Area of the state between 4 and 4: 20 pm […]
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The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, on Sunday confirmed the death of six persons in an auto accident on Malumfashi-Funtua road in Malumfashi Local Government Area of Katsina State. The FRSC Sector Commander, Abdu Bagadawa, told the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Katsina that the accident occurred at about 2 p.m. in Tashar-fulani village, about 10 kilometres from Malumfashi […]
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Two persons lost their lives while seven others were injured in an auto crash which occurred in front of the abandoned Gateway Hotel, Ota, in Ado Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State on Saturday around 6.10am. Our correspondent gathered that those who died were crushed to death in the accident which involved two trucks that were travelling to Lagos.
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No fewer than eight persons died in a crash on Sunday evening on Hadejia-Kano Road in the Kaugama Local Government Area of Jigawa State. The accident involved a KIA car with number plate, AS30DBT, and a Honda Sport Civic, with number plate, ZAK238AA. PUNCH learnt that five other persons sustained varying degrees of injury in the accident.
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No fewer than eight persons have been confirmed dead in a car crash in Enugu State. The accident occurred along the Enugu/Port Harcourt Expressway, by the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital junction, at Ituku-Ozalla.
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Two persons died, while nine others were injured in an accident at the Onipepeiye village end of the Abeokuta-Siun-Sagamu Expressway on Tuesday. It involved a Toyota Picnic with number plate, KSF 957 BB, and a Nissan Serena marked, 25 OGHA, belonging to the Ogun State House of Assembly. Our correspondent gathered that the Sango-bound Toyota Picnic was coming from Ibadan, […]
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The family of Effiong Etim has been thrown into mourning after he was allegedly killed by a company driver, Henry Uduze. It was learnt that 37-year-old Effiong was returning from work on his motorcycle when he was allegedly crushed to death by Uduze on Omole Estate Phase II. Witnesses said the suspect was receiving a telephone call when the incident […]
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Ten people have been confirmed dead while nine others sustained injuries in a motor accident that occurred along Ibadan-Oyo Road on Saturday evening. Eyewitness said the accident, which happened at Itose village along the road, involved a Toyota Hiace commuter bus with number plate LSD 191 XK that was travelling from Sango-Ota in Ogun State to Ilorin, Kwara State.
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One person died, while nine others were injured in an auto crash at Onipepeye village, along the Abeokuta-Siun-Sagamu Expressway on Sunday. The accident involved a Volkswagen bus with number plate AAB 318 AA travelling from Abeokuta towards Ajura, in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State. The Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, Babatunde Akinbiyi, […]
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