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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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. …
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s recognition of Victor Giadom as the acting Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). On Wednesday the presidency announced that Giadom has gotten the approval of president Buhari and will preside over APC’s virtual National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Thursday June 25, as the …
A Chinese man who was kidnapped 32 years ago when he was a toddler, reunited with his parents on Monday, May 18, thanks to facial recognition technology. He was a toddler when he was abducted from a hotel and sold to a childless couple. Mao Yin was just 2 when he was abducted on the way home from nursery school after his father briefly looked away while getting him some water in a hotel in the Chinese city of …