•Fuel tanker explosion Three persons narrowly escaped death today as a fuel tanker exploded in Epe-Ijebu Ode expressway in Lagos State. The explosion resulted in confusion in the locality as nearby passers-by scampered for safety, reports Nigerian Tribune. The fuel tanker explosion occurred on the Lagos State end of the road. Two persons inclu...
Borno State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Umar Usman Kadafur, and over 100 passengers narrowly escaped a tragic incident when a Max Air aircraft experienced an engine fire shortly after takeoff from Maiduguri International Airport. The incident occurred last night when the aircraft, en route to Abuja, suffered engine failure caused by a bird strike ...
•Obasanjo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has debunked circulating social media rumors about his death, saying he is alive but those behind such information will not escape tragedy. Speaking at the commissioning of the Old-Garage-Oke-Fia-Lameco road in Osogbo, Osun State, alongside Governor Ademola Adeleke, Obasanjo expressed shock and disa...
•Monkeys Authorities in South Carolina issued a warning yesterday, urging residents to secure their doors and windows after over 40 monkeys escaped from a research facility. The primates escaped from an Alpha Genesis facility in Beaufort County, prompting authorities to set up traps and deploy thermal imaging cameras to help locate them, accor...
•Street beggars No fewer than 20 beggars recently picked from the streets of Abuja city centre were said to have escaped from the FCT Rehabilitation Centre, where they are being kept at Kuchiko-Bwari on the outskirts of Bwari town. They were said to have escaped through a fence at the back of the Centre on […]
•Scene of the accident The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has confirmed that two people escaped death today when a commercial bus rammed into a slow-moving articulated vehicle. LASEMA Permanent Secretary, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, who confirmed this to our correspondent in Lagos, said the two victims sustained various degre...
An aircraft operating in Nigeria, Max Airline lost six tyres while attempting to take off from the Yola Airport in Adamawa yesterday evening. The airline’s Director of Public and Consumer Protection Bimbo Oladeji said the aircraft was carrying 119 passengers and six crew members. “This evening, Max Air’s flight NGL1649, a Boeing 737 with regis...
No fewer than 32 persons were injured while others escaped death by the whiskers on Saturday during a stakeholders meeting held at Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom to choose a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) consensus chairmanship candidate ahead of October council elections in the state. It was gathered that the political leader of [&hel...
•Binance executive, Tigran Gambaryan The detained Binance Holdings Limited executive, Tigran Gambaryan, has attempted to escape from Kuje Correctional Facility. Investigations by our correspondent revealed how Mr Gambaryan who is currently remanded in Kuje Correctional Facility, applied for a new United States of America passport, under the pr...
•Prison break One hundred and nineteen inmates have escaped from the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Suleja, in Niger State after a rainstorm wreaked havoc on a part of the facility late yesterday. “A heavy downpour that lasted for several hours on the night of Wednesday, 24 April 2024, has wreaked havoc on the Medium Security […]