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,…
A couple escaped death on Wednesday after a container fell on their Lexus Jeep at the Toyota bus stop on the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, Lagos state. In a statement on Thursday, the Director of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, stated that the incident occurred in the evening after a distress call. According…
The death toll in the Wednesday accident in Ebonyi State involving some prospective members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has risen to four. The corps members were heading to the NYSC orientation camp for their three-week orientation course when the 14-seater bus they were in rammed into a parked truck. They are part…
The Kwara state Road Traffic Management Authority (KWARTMA) says 18 people have died in a road accident involving a trailer and a mini truck in the Oko-Olowo area of Ilorin west LGA. Olawuyi Gani, spokesperson of KWARTMA, confirmed the incident in a statement sent to TheCable on Thursday. Gani said the accident happened on Wednesday…