•Scene of the accident A fully loaded 40-foot container today fell on a Nissan car with registration number ABJ 692 BG, killing a female occupant of the car instantly while the driver of the vehicle escaped unhurt. In a statement signed today by the Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA, Adebayo Taofiq, the […]...
•FRSC operatives Homicide detectives from the Lagos State Police Command have taken into custody the driver of a Toyota Camry for allegedly running over a 5-year-old girl while reversing his car in the Ijaye Ojokoro area of the state. The victim identified as Fatima was confirmed dead in a hospital where she was rushed to, […]
•Scene of the accident The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority yesterday disclosed that it found two corpses under an empty diesel truck at the Barracks Bus Stop along the Lagos–Badagry Expressway. In a statement by the Public Relations Officer of LASTMA, Adebayo Taofiq, yesterday, the accident occurred at the same location where a soldie...
Two students of Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot Osurua, have been crushed to death. It was gathered that the incident happened yesterday, few metres away from the school’s premises, near Ikot Inyang village junction, along Aba Road in Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area. It was learnt that the truck driver lost control of the vehicle […...
•Scene of the accident An Okada rider and his two passengers narrowly escaped death today in the Iyana-Mortuary area of Abeokuta as they were crushed by a Highlander jeep. Eyewitness accounts said the Okara rider who was on a high speed from the NNPC end of the busy road defied the traffic light as the […]
•FRSC The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Ogun Command, said a truck crushed a woman to death at Dalemo area on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway last night. Mr Anthony Uga, Ogun Sector Commander of FRSC, who confirmed the incident to our correspondent today in Ota, said the accident occurred at about 11:00 p.m, reports NAN. Uga explained […]...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has undertaken a decisive move in the fight against rising insecurity, crushing 639 impounded commercial motorcycles, commonly known as “Okada” in Abuja. Dr Abdulateef Bello, the Director of the Directorate of Road Traffic Services at FCTA, addressed journalists after the operation. The motor...
A man suspected to be a scavenger had been crushed to death by a collapsed staircase in an abandoned one-storey building, located at 38 Elechi street, Mile 3 Diobu in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The victim, whose identity is yet to be determined, was said to be under the staircase when it caved in and […]
Not fewer than eight persons, among them students, were crushed to death when a tipper conveying sharp sand suffered break failure in Mpape, a settlement close to the Maitama District of Abuja. The incident, it was gathered, occurred yesterday around 4 p.m. before the Keke NAPEP Park along the road that leads to Mpape junction, […]