•Fuel tanker overturns A swift and coordinated response by the Rivers State Fire Service and the Federal Fire Service has averted what could have been a major fire disaster in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. The emergency teams were alerted after a tanker conveying petroleum products overturned near the Nkpogu Roundabout along Elekahi...
•A fuel tanker on fire A petroleum tanker carrying Premium Motor Spirit otherwise known as petrol overturned and went up in flames last night, Wednesday, February 11 at Ikeja Along area of Lagos State. It was gathered that the petrol-laden tanker overturned, spilling its contents on the road and triggering a fire outbreak. Officials of [&helli...
A cocaine laboratory explosion killed nine people yesterday on Colombia’s Pacific coast, police said. The blast happened in the southwest Narino department in a cocaine-producing area inhabited by the Indigenous Awa people and rife with illegal armed groups. Eight people were wounded, reports AFP. These victims worked for the National Coordina...
•Late Special Effects artiste, James Akaie Nollywood special effects artiste James Akaie has died in an explosion on a movie set in Abeokuta, Ogun State. According to the film production crew, RockBottom Flix, the incident occurred while Akaie was experimenting with an unauthorised pyrotechnic simulation involving a gas cylinder with two assis...
A survivor of the June 5, 2022, attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, has given a harrowing account of how she narrowly escaped death after an explosive device was detonated beside her during the Sunday Mass. Testifying as the third prosecution witness, using the pseudonym SSC, a student from Achara, Anambra State, […]
•An explosion Reports have it that an explosion went off around Yidi Road in Offa, a major town in Kwara State with police reportedly cordoning off the area. Details are however unclear as to casualties or scale of destruction as at press time, reports Daily Independent. But speaking to the media few minutes ago, police […]
•A fuel tanker explosion The Kano State Fire Service has confirmed that three people died following a petrol tanker explosion at Kura Market Junction along Zaria Road in Kura Local Government Area of Kano State. Spokesperson of the Service, Saminu Yusif Abdullahi, said the Emergency Response Unit received a distress call from a retired Civil [...
•An explosion An explosion has rocked Obinwanne Community in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State. The incident which happened yesterday killed a man in the South-Eastern state, reports Channels TV. Viral clips that surfaced online shortly after the explosion showed victim in pain, with his legs damaged. In the video, some unidentified res...
The Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) has confirmed that the explosion which occurred at its factory in Kaduna State yesterday resulted in the death of one staff member, with several others injured. In an official statement issued by DICON’s Public Relations Officer, Maria Sambo, the incident was attributed to expired raw mater...
•An explosion Seven pupils have been reportedly injured in an explosion at LGEA Primary School, Ater, in Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State. Witnesses told our correspondent that the incident occurred on Tuesday after some pupils picked up an object they found around the school premises and began playing with it, unaware that it [&helli...
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