The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed two persons dead by hit and run vehicles along Lagos/Ibadan Expressway. A statement by Spokesman for the agency, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, in Lagos on Saturday quoted NEMA South-West Zonal Coordinator, Alhaji Suleiman Yakubu, as saying that the victims may have been knocked down in the morning. “A motorcyclist was found in front […]
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A truck belonging to Dangote Cement Company on Tuesday caused the death of three persons, while driving against traffic along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The Commander of the Traffic Compliance and Enlightenment Corps, TRACE, Seni Ogunyemi, who confirmed the accident said the registration number of the truck is DTF 118XA. He said the truck driver, who was driving on the wrong side […]
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Two people were burnt to death while five others suffered burns yesterday, in Lagos, after a yellow bus (Danfo) accidentally caught fire in Maryland. The incident occurred at about 2.55pm when the bus with Number plate KTU 479 XQ which was heading towards New Garage lost control, hit an unknown Sports utility van and caught fire. Two female passengers were […]
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**Reverend Sister battling Meningitis in Zamfara dies in car accident Worshippers of the First Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA) at the weekend could not hide the puzzle on their faces, which could only read one thing: “Why, God why?” Their faith appear to be failing them as their body language seem to give vent to the question on the […]
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Four persons were said to have been burnt to death while two others were injured when a loaded fuel tanker fell and exploded around Fidiwo area along Lagos/Ibadan Expressway on Tuesday. The four victims were said to have been trapped inside the fuel tanker which fell on its side, and caught fire, along with another tanker it scrubbed on the […]
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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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A student of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, Dada Segun, was on Thursday crushed to death by a fuel-laden tanker along the Gbongan-Osogbo Expressway. Our correspondent, who visited the scene, gathered that the accident which occurred around 9.30am caused a heavy traffic on the road and motorists were forced to take alternative routes. Irate youths of Owode-Ede, where the […]
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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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Pandemonium occurred Saturday at Liverpool Roundabout, at the Apapa area of Lagos, when a commercial bus driver killed a soldier. The soldier, attached to Signal Barracks, Apapa, which is a few meters away from the said roundabout, was said to have been walking on the sidewalk when the bus driver hit him. According to eyewitness account, due to the vehicular […]
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An Italian couple were killed Thursday when a motorway bridge collapsed on top of their car, police said, as debate sparked over the reasons for the second tragedy of its kind in just over four months. Antonella Viviani, 54, and her husband Emidio Diomede, 60, died at the scene after the bridge, which was undergoing maintenance work, gave way onto […]
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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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