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May 5, 2019 No Responses

Auto Accident Claims 16 Lives In Kano

No fewer than 16 persons have died on Friday evening when three vehicles collided at Tukai Village in Dambatta Local Government Area in Kano State. The Public Relations Officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps in the state, Kabiru Ibrahim,...

March 14, 2019 No Responses

Lagos Building Disaster Claims 10 Lives

At least 10 people have died and many more are feared trapped after a building containing a school collapsed in the Nigerian city of Lagos. The school, which was on the top floor of the four-storey building in Ita Faji...

March 11, 2019 No Responses

Adesanmi, 156 others die in Ethiopian Airlines crash

Prominent Nigerian professor, Pius Adesanmi, and former United Nations and African Union Deputy Joint Special Representative in Darfur, Sudan, Ambassador Abiodun Bashua of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were among the 157 persons on board an Ethiopian Airline...

December 29, 2018 No Responses

Buhari Mourns Shagari

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed great sadness at the news of the passing away of the First Executive President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari. President Buhari said, “ On behalf of my family, the...

July 3, 2018 No Responses

Drama As ‘Dead’ woman Is Found Alive In Morgue Fridge

A South African woman is recovering in hospital after being discovered alive in a mortuary fridge. The woman was taken to Carletonville morgue, in Gauteng province, having been declared dead by paramedics following a road accident. Ambulance company Distress A...

April 3, 2018 No Responses

Buhari Mourns Winnie Mandela

President Muhammadu Buhari has described the passing away of South-African anti-apartheid icon, Mrs Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, as a huge loss to Africa. The President noted that she was a woman of uncommon determination, steadfastness and perseverance who h...

March 26, 2018 No Responses

37 Dead, 64 Missing In Shopping Mall Inferno

At least 37 people are confirmed to have died in a fire that tore through a shopping centre in the Siberian coal-mining city of Kemerovo. At least 64 people are missing, including 41 children, and parts of the building are...

February 12, 2018 No Responses

Shagaya: Buhari condoles family, people of Plateau

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the tragic accident that took the life of Sen. John Shagaya, and condoled the family over the loss. President Buhari in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr...

January 29, 2018 No Responses

Accident claims 20 lives along Kaduna-Abuja expressway

No fewer than 20 people died in a ghastly motor accident along Kaduna-Abuja expressed way on Sundaynight. The Sector Commander of the Federal Roads Safety Corps in Kaduna State, Umar Ibrahim, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna...

June 8, 2017 No Responses

‘Osotimehin was a pillar, mentor to Future Assured Programme’

Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari has described the late Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin, as a pillar and mentor who has supported her struggle towards improving the lives of women and children in Nigeria. She made the statement through...

April 29, 2017 No Responses

Road accidents claim 1,466 Nigerians in three months

Not less than 1,466 Nigerians died as a result of road accidents between January and March, this year. According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), 1,363 of the 1,466 Nigerians that got killed in the period were adults. NBS...