•Late Fauja Singh India’s Fauja Singh, believed to be the world’s oldest distance runner, has died in a road accident aged 114, his biographer said today. Singh, an Indian-born British national, nicknamed the “Turbaned Tornado”, died after being hit by a vehicle in Punjab state’s Jalandhar district yesterday, reports AFP. “My Turbaned Tornado ...
A chieftain of the Kaduna State chapter of the Social Democratic Party(SDP), Bashir Zakariya, has died in a car accident along the Zaria-Kaduna highway yesterday. Until his death, Zakariya was the SDP chairman of Zone One Senatorial District in Kaduna State, reports Channels TV. Party officials said the late Zakariya was travelling from Zaria ...
Four popular gospel ministers, including Evangelist Ayodeji David, popularly known as Kekere Jesu and his fiancée died in an accident along the Ikorodu–Sagamu Road in Ogun State. The Federal Road Safety Corps confirmed the incident in a statement by the Ogun State Commander and Public Information Officer, Florence Okupe yesterday. The deceased...
Tragedy struck in Lokoja today as two female students from the Federal University Lokoja (FUL) and Kogi State Polytechnic lost their lives in a ghastly motor accident along the Felele axis of the state capital. The accident involved a heavily loaded articulated vehicle heading toward Abuja, which lost control and rammed into a tricycle (common...
•An accident scene The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Lagos Sector Command, says a fatal accident involving multiple vehicles on the Kara Bridge section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway has claimed one life. The FRSC Lagos State Sector Command, led by Corps Commander Kehinde Hamzat, confirmed this in a statement today in Lagos. Hamzat said th...
•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...
•FRSC officials at an accident scene Five personnel of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) were among 19 travellers who lost their lives in an auto crash at Hawan Kibo in the Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State yesterday. “The unfortunate incident occurred around Hawan Kibo along the Jos-Akwanga Express Road,” said NAF spokesman Olusola [&he...
•An accident scene No fewer than five police officers attached to the Kano State Police Command have been confirmed dead in a fatal motor accident along the Kano-Zaria highway. The command’s spokesperson, SP Abdullahi Haruna who confirmed this to newsmen in the state, said the incident which occurred in the wee hours of today also […]...
•FRSC officials rescuing victims of the accident The number of fatalities from Sunday’s accident along Saminaka Road in Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna State has risen to 25. This is according to a statement by the sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps in Kaduna State, Corps Commander Kabiru Nadabo, who said that […]...
•Scene of the accident Two students of the Federal Polytechnic, Ile Oluji, in Ondo State, Chukwu Athanasius and Oladokun Oyindamola, have been crushed to death in an auto crash along Akure-Ondo highway, Ondo State. Reports had it that they lost their lives when a Toyota car reportedly crushed their motorcycle, killing them instantly, reports V...

