•Road safety officials and vehicle at an accident scene At least five persons have been burnt to death and nine others injured following a ghastly motor accident involving a 16-seater mass transit bus along Abakaliki-Enugu Expressway in Ebonyi State. The incident occurred on Thursday at the popular G-hostel axis of the busy and strategic inter...
•Rebecca Cheptegei (2nd right) Uganda today will lay to rest Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, who died earlier this month after her partner set her on fire in the latest incident of horrific gender-based violence in Kenya. The 33-year-old, who debuted this summer in the women’s marathon at the Paris Olympics, succumbed to severe burns last week [&h...
•Scene of the accident Over 30 people have been confirmed dead following a petrol tanker explosion in Agaie Local Government Area of Niger State. The incident occurred when the tanker collided head-on with a trailer truck carrying passengers and cattle from Wudil, Kano State, en route to Lagos. Abdullahi Baba-Arab, Director General of the Nige...
•An accident scene No fewer than four people were burned to death and twenty others injured in a multiple-vehicle accident along the Osun/Ondo road in Ikeji-Arakeji, Ori-Ade Local Government Area of Osun State. Investigations revealed that the accident, which occurred three days ago, involved a head-on collision between two buses and a truck, ...
•School bus on fire Twelve primary school children died in a road accident today in South Africa as a minibus taking them to school overturned and caught fire after collision, officials said. The incident occurred on the N14 motorway near Merafong, about 70 kilometres west of Johannesburg, when another vehicle rammed the school bus from [&hell...
•Accident scene Sixteen passengers have been confirmed dead in a lone fatal motor accident on the Ekwegbe road along the Enugu/Opi/Nsukka road in Enugu State. According to a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, Enugu State Command, State Headquarters, and DSP Daniel Ndukwe yesterday, the accident occurred at around 5:20 p.m. Givin...
•Tanker explosion Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has described as very unfortunate the fire incident caused by a tanker conveying premium motor spirit otherwise known as petrol which burnt motorists and commuters beyond recognition and destroyed several vehicles on Friday night. The Frontier had yesterday reported the devastating in...
•FRSC officers at a scene of accident Road accident claimed over 25 lives in a ghastly accident at Aloma in Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi, today. Our correspondent reliably gathered that the accident occurred on this morning between a fully loaded Siena bus with Toyota bus and articulated vehicle, reports Sunday Tribune. According to [&hel...
•Lagos PPRO Benjamin Hundeyin The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the death of a one-year-old baby during an attack at Egan Oriomi, in the Otto Awori Local Council Development Area of Ojo, Lagos State. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, told our correspondent yesterday that some residents of the community wh...
•FRSC The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said today that 13 persons died and two were injured in an auto crash in Kogi. Kogi FRSC Sector Commander, Mr Samuel Oyedeji, told our correspondent that the sad incident occurred around 7:30 p.m. yesterday, reports NAN. He disclosed that the accident involving a commercial Sharon bus and […]

