Two persons have lost their lives in a fuel-laden tanker explosion on Abakaliki–Onueke-Afikpo Expressway in Ebonyi. Igwe Nnabuife, sector commander, Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, in the state, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday, December 30, 2023, in Abakaliki. Mr Nnabuife said that the truck, which was carrying Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, known as petrol, caught fire on Friday around 8: 20p.m., at the airport junction axis of the highway in Onueke. …
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The Nigerian embassy in Niger Republic has denied reports claiming its facility has been burnt down. In a statement released, the embassy says protesters attempted to gain access into the Chancery building in Naimey, the capital of Niger, on July 30 but were stopped by the Nigerien military and Police authorities. The embassy added that its building is at the moment well guarded by the Nigerien military and other security authorities. Read the statement below
Three persons were burnt to death in a fatal road accident along the East-West Road in Bayelsa State on Monday night, June 20. It was gathered that the accident which occurred at Opokuma junction involved a Toyota Camry with registration number LS 529 KY and a Mazda 323 with registration number GBB 532 XA. Sources said two persons involved in the accident including a Police Constable survived with various degrees of minor injuries. Eye-witness account attributed the …
Scores have been feared killed and many wounded while properties worth millions of naira were destroyed following a clash that erupted between Ilaje people (Yoruba residents) and indigenes of Mkpanak in Ibeno, the Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State on Wednesday April 20. The clash was allegedly as a result of a cult war which reportedlyled to the stabbing to death of an indigene of the community before it assumed ethnic dimensions. According to reports, ilaje people, mostly fishermen, …
A rival cult group has set ablaze a notorious member of the Bobos cult group identified as Christopher Samuel, in Bayelsa State.. The incident which happened around 6:30am on Saturday, March 26, in the Swali area of Yenagoa, was a sequel to an early morning clash between the deceased’s group and another yet-to-be-identified group. Though the residents and traders at the popular Swali Market initially thought that it was a robbery incident when mob accosted and set ablaze Samuel, it …
At least 12 persons have been burnt to death in an auto crash that occurred at Tsamawa Town, Garun Malam Local Government Area of Kano State. The Public Relations Officer of the State Fire Service, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, confirmed the incident in a statement on Tuesday, March 1. “We received a distress call from one Isah Mai-Fetur at about 3:00p.m that a commercial Hiace bus and another J5-bus had collided and instantly burst into flames,” the statement reads. …