Tag: accident
Preventing Carnage On Lagos Roads
By Mamud Hassan The incessant cases of road accidents, traffic gridlock and threat to lives and property by trailer and…
Arisekola’s Wife Killed In Auto Crash
Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan Barely a week after the death of the Aare Musulumi of Yoruba Land, Alhaji Arisekola Alao, one of…
Eight dead, seven injured in accident
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta At least eight persons were confirmed dead while seven others were seriously injured when a truck carrying a…
Train Derails In Lagos, Kills 2
Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni A passenger train, reported to be coming from Kano State, derailed last night at the Lagos Terminus of…
Oil tanker explodes, sinks off Japan coast
An oil tanker was sinking off the Japanese coast Thursday after a large explosion and subsequent fire that sent towering…
Drunk driver crashes on rooftop in Lagos
An ostensibly drunk driver careered off the Akerele Street in Oworonshoki area of Lagos, western Nigeria Sunday night and landed…
2 Policemen Die During Fight With Suspects
Cyriacus Izuekwe Two policemen have been killed in an auto crash while conveying some suspects to Lagos State, western Nigeria.…
FRSC confirms 3 dead in Ogun auto crash
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) said three persons died and three others sustained injury in an accident which occurred…
Nollywood Actor Jide Kosoko In Auto Crash
Veteran Nollywood actor, Prince Jide Kosoko, has confirmed that he was involved in a car accident near the Ikeja Shopping…
Truck kills woman praying inside church
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta A middle-aged woman, simply identified as Iyawo Alfa was crushed to death inside a church in Sotubo…
Man, daughter crash into Lagos lagoon, wife survives
A man and his daughter on Tuesday morning drowned in Lagos as a Toyota jeep in which they were travelling…
Skidd Ikemefunna’s Wife To Be Buried Tomorrow
The remains of Anita Uche Ikemefunna, wife of James Skidd Ikemefuna, foremost Gospel music artiste and General Manager, (Special Duties)…
I am hale and hearty, says Oshiomhole
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, southern Nigeria, has debunked rumours making the round that he was seriously…
Formula One legend Schumacher in coma after ski fall
Formula One legend Michael Schumacher is in a “critical condition” in a coma after striking his head in a ski…
4 Jolly Friends Die In Auto Crash
Barely one week to Christmas, four friends returning home after enjoying themselves at a night club in Ikeja died in…
Anything Could Have Happened
Dr. Anthony Monye-Emina, an Associate Professor of Economics and Chairman, UNIBEN chapter of ASUU, who was in the vehicle with…
Iyayi: Murder Or Accident?
The nature of two holes on the late Professor Festus Iyayi’s body gives life to suspicions by his colleagues that…
Iyayi’s death: What A Military Expert Says
The retired military officer held the photographs up and exclaimed that the deep gashes could not have been a result…
Multiple accident causes gridlock on Lekki-Epe Expressway
EROMOSELE EBHOMELE But for the quick intervention of officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps, it would have been a…
17 die in ghastly auto-crash
Stephen Oni/Ilorin Seventeen people have been reported dead in an accident early today on Ilorin-Jebba Expressway,Kwara state, central Nigeria. Ten…
Speeding car kills man in Lagos
A man has been crushed to death by a hit and run driver on the Oshodi-Gbagada Expressway, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.…
Kogi deputy governor unhurt in road accident
Mr. Yomi Awoniyi, the Deputy Governor of the central Nigerian state of Kogi on Sunday escaped unhurt in an accident…
Russian Chief Justice to be flown home
The chief justice of Russia’s supreme court remained in stable condition on Tuesday after a car accident in Ghana and…
56 escape death in multiple crashes
At least 56 passengers escaped death today when the brakes of a Molue bus they boarded from Iyana-Ipaja to Oshodi…
14 Die As Vehicle Plunges Into River
No fewer than 14 people died in an accident when a vehicle plunged into a river on Bahindi-Kende road in…
I Envy Oga Bello’s Success
Veteran actor, Tajudeen Oyewole, popularly called Abija, tells DAMILARE OKUNOLA about the accident that kept him bedridden for four years,…
2 Trucks Crash On Ikorodu Road
There was an accident at Mile 12 axis of Ikorodu Road in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, in the early hours of…
2 Injured journalists moved to UCH
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Fatimah Abdulkareem, National Treasurer, Nigeria Union of Journalists, (NUJ) and the Oyo State Chairman of the union, Mr.…
NBC Abandons Accident Victims
The Nigerian Bottling Company, NBC, bottlers of the Coca-Cola brand of soft drinks, has abandoned victims of the accident involving…
Reports: Patience Jonathan loses mother in auto-crash
News reports from Port Harcourt said Mrs. Iwari-Oba, the mother of the wife of Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, may…