President Bola Tinubu has sent condolence message to the management of Federal University Lokoja over tragic road accident that claimed lives of five students. Asefon Sunday Dayo, the Senior Special Assistant to President on Students Engagement disclosed Mr President condolence message in a press release sighted by our correspondent. Asefon said Mr President is grieving…
Students of the Federal University Lokoja (FUL), Kogi State, have taken to the streets in a massive protest following the tragic death of seven students and a bus driver in a ghastly road accident involving a truck and a school shuttle bus. The protest, which began on Tuesday and continued into Wednesday morning, saw students…
An auto crash involving an articulated vehicle in Kogi has claimed the lives of seven people, including four students from the Federal University, Lokoja (FUL), while another student sustained injuries. Samuel Oyedeji, the FRSC Kogi sector commander, revealed the details to journalists in Lokoja on Monday, attributing the accident to brake failure. The accident caused…
No fewer than six people were killed on Saturday after a truck carrying a 40-foot container loaded with cement crashed into a residential building at Area Command Bus Stop, Nnewi, Anambra State. Three of the deceased were said to be children from the same family. Although the Anambra State Police Command confirmed that six persons…
Four persons have been killed and 13 others injured in a road crash on the Agaie-Lapai road in Niger State. The accident, which occurred on Monday near Al’Farma International School in Agaie Local Government Area, was a head-on collision involving three trailer trucks, one of which was transporting cattle. The Niger State Emergency Management Agency…
The Ondo Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps on Sunday disclosed that 30 people lost their lives in a road accident on the Benin-Ore-Ijebu Ode Expressway at Onipetesi community in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State on Saturday evening. The victims were reportedly burnt to death when two buses carrying them collided…
About four soldiers are feared dead and others injured following an incident in the Morocco area of Shomolu, Lagos. The incident took place during morning physical training on Friday when a suspected drunk driver rammed his vehicle into a group of soldiers attached to the Myoung Barracks in Yaba, Lagos State. A soldier recounted, “There’s…
The Federal Road Safety Corps has revealed that 5,421 people were killed in road traffic crashes across Nigeria in 2024. This is a seven per cent increase from the 5,081 fatalities recorded in 2023. This was disclosed during a press briefing by the Corps Marshal, Shehu Mohammed, in Abuja on Monday, marking the conclusion of…
The Federal Road Safety Corps has rescued 13 road users from a fire related crash in Enugu State. The Corps Public Education Officer, Olusegun Ogungbemide, said in a statement on Sunday in Abuja that the crash which occurred on Saturday, January 25 was as a result of brake failure. This, he said involved 17 vehicles…
Horrific accidents on the Long Bridge and Sagamu corridors of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway have claimed the lives of two people, including a 45-year-old man and an unidentified female passenger, leaving four others injured. The Ogun State Police Command disclosed on Saturday evening that the separate accidents occurred on Friday afternoon. According to the command spokesperson,…