A canoe has capsized at Tungar-Gegero in Jega Council of Kebbi State, leaving no fewer than eight people, comprising women and children, dead. Confirming the incident to newsmen yesterday in Birnin Kebbi, Chairman of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Alhaji Sani Dododo, said the incident occurred about 10.30 a.m. “A middle-aged man was trying
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Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has announced the death of his mother-in-law and wife of the late Lamido Aliyu Musdafa, Hajiya Khadija Aliyu Musdafa. The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in 2019 general elections, described the late Hajiya Musdafa, who died on Monday, as a kind and compassionate woman. She will
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A commercial motorcyclist was on Sunday crushed to death by a church bus along Ihiala- Onitsha road, Anambra State. The accident which occurred around 4pm, near FRSC office, involved a Ford bus belonging to Catholic Watchman and a motorcycle. The Nation gathered that the driver of the bus reportedly lost control due to excessive speed
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A Popular chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has been shot dead in Bayelsa State. Karma Agagowei, who was also the Councillor representing Ward 6 Sagbama Council Area of the state was killed on Saturday evening by unknown gunmen while returning from a PDP ward Congress. It was learned that Agagowei was rushed to
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A pregnant woman, her two children, and one other person were killed in an accident that involved one tanker, one truck, and six motorcycles at Ikare, Akoko North-East local government in Ondo state on Saturday August 29. Several persons were also injured in the accident. According to reports, a tanker conveying diesel had a brake
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Eight persons have been killed in a ghastly motor accident in Gagarawa Local Government Area of Jigawa State. The victims includes a senior personnel, ASC Ahmad Mohammed and seven others of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Jigawa state command. The accident occurred at Garin Chiroma in Gagarawa local government involving Zapira Opel
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There is panic in Opebi area of Ikeja, Lagos as a helicopter has reportedly crashed into a building.The incident occurred at about 12. 17pm, at Salvation Road, Opebi, Lagos. Details later…
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It was a sad day in Zamfara on Wednesday as no fewer than fourteen politicians who were allegedly rushing to meet up with the state Governor’s convoy died in a fatal road accident. The accident which occurred on Wednesday saw three vehicles colliding with a BUA cement trailer. It was gathered that fourteen of the
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Two commercial motorists were Wednesday morning killed by officials of the Lagos State Taskforce at Abule Egba following a disagreement. The victims said to be a driver and conductor, were allegedly shot by the officials for yet to be ascertained reasons. Another account indicated that the Taskforce officials crushed the driver with their patrol vehicle,
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Residents are yet to come to terms with the bizarre incident of a breastfeeding mother, Mrs Chizoba Eke, who was found in a septic tank after three days in an uncompleted building at Iguwurita, Ikwere Local Government Area of Rivers State.The woman is currently struggling for survival as she has been transfused with a unit
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A major blaze has broken out at Adeniji Adele Market in Lagos Island in an early morning of Sunday, which gutted 14 shops and 16 kiosks. Huge clouds of thick black smoke pouredfrom the scene, while flames shot up from buildings surrounding the market. The fire was said to have started around 3am as a
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Two women have died after a container fell from a truck and landed on a commercial bus at Odo Olowu area, Ijesha bus-stop in Lagos on Friday, August 21. Confirming the incident, the Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said the agency received a distress call at about 9pm that an empty
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A Critical Investigation was demanded by the family of Kingsley Obot, a member of staff of Ellan Star Marine, in order to know the circumstances surrounding his death on the premises of the company in Rivers State. Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mukan, was told by the deceased’s family to take over the investigation
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A boy of about 24 years old, Emma Agwa, has allegedly been electrocuted while playing ball with his mates at Court road/Obianwu street junction, Onitsha North Local Government Area, Anambra state. The deceased, who hailed from Nkanu in Enugu state, but lived with the mother in Onitsha after the death of his father, went to
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About eleven persons have been killed in the last three days in Zango Kataf, Kajuru and Kachia councils by gunmen, the Southern Kaduna People’s Union (SOKAPU) has alleged. Spokesman of SOKAPU, Luka Binniyat, in a statement, said the attacks left many houses burnt and several persons injured. But when The Nation contacted him to confirm
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