Tag: deaths
Akwa Ibom: FRSC records 118 road crashes, 37 deaths
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said on Sunday that it recorded 118 road crashes and 37 deaths in Akwa…
Calm returns in strife-torn Wukari
Some order has been restored in Wukari, Taraba state, where a mix of ethnic and religious conflict ignited deadly violence…
6 friends of groom die from drug overdose at wedding
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Tijani Usman (26) may have been regretting while he decided to get married as his wedding ceremony at…
4 students die in ghastly road crash
Jethro Ibileke/Benin A tragic road accident involving a 15-seater bus conveying passengers to Warri has claimed the lives of four…
News analysis: When job seeking turns harvest of deaths
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The desire of some Nigerian youths to be employed in the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS ended tragically on…
2 killed in Guinea over power cuts
At least two persons were killed and 30 others injured in Guinea’s capital Conakry on Tuesday when protests against frequent…
9 Nigerian soldiers killed in Boko Haram ambush
Boko Haram gunmen have killed nine Nigerian soldiers after launching an ambush on a military convoy in the troubled northeast,…
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…
Over 200 South Sudanese escaping from war drown
At least 200 South Sudanese civilians drowned on Tuesday in a ferry accident on the White Nile river while fleeing…
Chad peacekeepers killed in Central Africa
Five peacekeepers from Chad have been killed in clashes in the Central African Republic capital, the force’s spokesman said today…
Hundreds die in South Sudan shootout
Hundreds of people have died and up to 20,000 others have fled to UN bases in days of fierce fighting…
Nigerian army kills 29 Boko Haram fighters in battles
Nigerian troops have killed 29 suspected Boko Haram militants in two days of fighting in the northeast, where President Goodluck…
Nigeria: Six die in fuel tanker explosion
Six persons were killed on Friday night in a fire from a tanker explosion in Maraban Jos, Igabi Local Government…
9 killed in another garment factory disaster in Bangladesh
A huge fire at a garment factory on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka has killed at least nine…
Robbers on motor bike kill 3 cops in Lagos
Gunmen suspected to be armed robbers on Tuesday killed three policemen in Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria. The Commissioner…