•Truck Gunmen have killed two drivers and burnt their truck at Ogi Junction in Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State. Officials of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Imo State chapter, told our correspondent that the incident occurred around 10:30 am on Saturday, reports Daily Trust. Dahiru Musa, NURTW’s chairman in Okig...
•The hotel accommodating 484 Nigerian pilgrims in Makkah The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has said that no lives were lost in the fire incident razing an hotel accommodating 484 Nigerian pilgrims in Makkah on Saturday. NAHCON said this in a statement by its Assistant Director, Information and Publications Division, Hajiya Fatim...
•Darey Art Alade and wife, Deola Popular Nigerian musician, Darey Art Alade, and his wife, Deola, have thanked God and well-wishers after narrowly escaping a car fire on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos State. Sharing videos from the scene on Instagram today, Deola revealed that the incident occurred around 4pm yesterday when their vehicle [...
•Power transmission line A high-tension cable conveying electric current has snapped, killing at least six persons, including a pregnant woman and worker with the NDLEA, in Okrika Community, Okrika Local Government Area of Rivers State. The incident, which reportedly occurred around 1:12 am today, also razed a building and destroyed properties...
•Firemen work at the Marienkrankenhaus Hospital An overnight blaze that broke out in a room in a hospital’s geriatric ward in Hamburg, Germany, killed three people and injured about 50 others, police said yesterday. The three casualties were aged between 84 and 87 years old, while three others were between life and death, authorities said. [&h...
An Upper Shari’a Court in Kano has sentenced Shafi’u Abubakar, a 38-year-old man, to death by hanging for setting a mosque on fire, killing 23 people. The court also ordered that Abubakar receive 150 strokes of cane for the same offense, reports Nigerian Tribune. The incident occurred on May 15, 2024, at Gadan Larabar Abasawa […]
•Scene of the incident A small plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in San Diego early this morning, sparking fires that engulfed about 15 homes and multiple vehicles. The incident occurred during dense fog, prompting emergency evacuations across several blocks, according to local authorities, reports The San-Diego Union Tribune. “We ...
•Fire outbreak The International Federation of Women Lawyers, Abia State branch, has condemned the recent alleged incident of domestic violence and child abuse in which a father set himself, his wife, and their one-year-old daughter ablaze in Onicha Ngwa community in Obingwa Local Government Area of the state. The incident occurred between 1am...
•London Metropolitan Police British police arrested a 21-year-old man early today over suspected arson attacks on two properties linked to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. London Metropolitan Police force said the man was arrested “on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life”, reports BBC. He was being held in custody, the force added. E...
•Fire Property worth millions of naira has been destroyed in a fire incident that ravaged three rooms out of four at The Polytechnic, Ibadan in Oyo State. Investigation revealed that though no casualty was recorded, the incident happened at the staff quarters of the institution today, reports The PUNCH. The state General Manager of Fire [&hell...
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