Scores of motorists and travellers were feared dead on Monday after stepping on Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) planted by members of the Boko Haram sect on the Maiduguri-Damboa-Chibok road in Borno State. This was confirmed by the Executive Chairman of [...]
The National Emergency Management Agency has confirmed the death of one Ginikanwa Izuoba in the Enugu-Otu, Aguleri flood. The Acting State Coordinator of the agency in Anambra, Mr Thickman Tanimu, confirmed the incident in Awka on Saturday. Tanimu said that [...]
Debris from a drone strike in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region has damaged a truck carrying humanitarian aid and belonging to the World Food Programme (WFP) and injured the truck’s driver, the United Nations agency said on Monday. The WFP said [...]
A female has been confirmed dead in the four stores building that collapsed on 2/4 Oye Sonuga Street, Palmgrove, Mushin, Lagos. The spokesperson of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Nosa Okunboh confirmed the development. Okunboh said search and [...]
The Police Command in Benue on Thursday confirmed the death of six persons in a boat mishap which occurred in Guma Local Government Area of the state. This is contained in a statement issued in Makurdi and signed by the command’s spokesperson, [...]
The death toll in the widespread flooding due to torrential rainfall across Jigawa State, has increased to 92. This is as the Governor of Jigawa State, Muhammad Badaru, has come under intense criticism for travelling abroad on holiday without visiting victims [...]
The dilapidated bridge on Bida-Minna Road has finally collapsed at Sagamio Farms, about 23 kilometres from Bida and 60 kilometres from Minna thereby cutting off the two major towns in Niger State. LEADERSHIP gathered that the collapse of the bridge [...]
At least 15 people were killed over the last two days in Colombia in a spate of violent incidents, authorities said, highlighting the huge task facing President Gustavo Petro. In the northern city of Barranquilla, six people were shot dead [...]
At least 15 people died in western Uganda after their homes were buried in a landslide triggered by torrential rains, the Red Cross has said. Most of those killed were women and children, Uganda Red Cross spokeswoman Irene Nakasiita said [...]
Five people died in a boat accident that happened in the Gwaram Local Government Area of Jigawa State, the police have said. The incident occured less than one week after a similar one in Miga Local Government Area led to the [...]
At least 46 people were reported killed and 16 missing in a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that shook China’s southwestern province of Sichuan. The earthquake which happen on Monday, triggered landslides and shaking buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, whose [...]
An 18-year-old boy, Adamu Musa has died in an attempt to rescue his cow in Buji Local Government Area, Jigawa State. A resident told that the incident occurred on Saturday evening at Unguwar Magina in Buji town. He said the [...]
A United Nations helicopter has crashed while flying over the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s North Kivu province, the World Food Programme (WFP) said. The UN Humanitarian Air Service chopper, managed by the WFP, went down near the city [...]
The police in Jigawa State on Tuesday said two teenage boys died in a boat mishap that happened in the Miga local government area of the state The police spokesperson in the state, Lawan Adam, in a statement, said the victims were [...]
Residents of Bassa Local Government Area of Kogi have been counting their losses following the collapse of Oguma-Sheria Bridge, also known as Akpada Dodo Bridge. The residents in a statement by Denwi Adunga Joshua, lamented that since the bridge collapsed [...]
There was panic on Sunday night as another building collapsed in Lagos, one month after the Oke Arin street, Ilupeju, Palm Grove incident. The affected building is situated at Adeleye Street, Lady Lark, Bariga area of the State. The Lagos State [...]
At least 10 persons have been confirmed dead while scores were displaced due to flood after torrential rainfall in Adamawa State. It was gathered that the torrential rain lasting over 15 hours caused destruction to lives and property in some [...]
Fire on Tuesday gutted Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) injection substation in Idumagbo, Lagos Island. Godwin Idemudia, General Manager, Corporate Communications EKEDC in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos, said electricity supply to customers in Idumagbo and Ajele areas have [...]
One Obatoki Sodiq has reportedly attacked a motorcyclist (known as okada rider), snatching his bike at gunpoint. The bike rider, Moris Alofa, a resident of Opete village, via Ayetoro, Ogun State, reported the incident to the State Amotekun Corps in Imeko-Afon. According to [...]
A Young Woman, Favour Amajor, who was allegedly kidnapped by unknown persons in Abuja, has been found, NaijaCover Reports. NaijaCover Reported that Favour was last seen at Dawaki Galadima area of the Federal Capital Territory on Monday afternoon, July 25, [...]
No fewer than 13 scrap-metal collectors have been killed by a forgotten bomb in Bama town in northeast Borno state. They were killed after a bomb they excavated blew up, according to security sources. According to AFP, 16 metal scavengers [...]
The police in Kano State on Monday said two illegal local miners died as a pit in an illegal mine they were working in collapsed. The Kano police spokesperson, Abdullahi Kiyawa, told reporters that the incident happened in Bichi Local Government Area [...]
The owner of the bar in the South African coastal town of East London where 21 teenagers mysteriously died last month has been arrested, police in the Eastern Cape province said. Provincial police said in a statement that the owner, aged 52, [...]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said that the flooding that occurred in Lagos last weekend claimed seven lives. The Zonal Coordinator, South West, NEMA, Ibrahim Farinloye, made the disclosure in a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday. “The post-emergency phase [...]
A Tanker Laden with diesel had gone up in flames near the long bridge, Warewa axis of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Ogun State. The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said the crash occurred at about 10pm on Tuesday, involving three male [...]
Seven children have been killed in a blast at Margba, a village in Tone Prefecture, in Savanna, the northernmost region of the country, which has been under a state of emergency since last June. In a statement, the Togolese army [...]
Four persons died while five others sustained injuries in an accident involving a Toyota Sienna space bus and a truck at old toll gate, Ogere, on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. Ahmed Umar, the Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC)in Ogun, confirmed the [...]
Two passengers died after a boat mishap in Ikorodu, Lagos State, on Wednesday, according to the Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA). The General Manager, LASWA, Oluwadamilola Emmanuel, said in a statement that the boat submerged immediately after it departed the Ipakodo ferry [...]
The running mate to the Rivers State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Innocent Barikor, on Tuesday night narrowly escaped death at the GRA axis of Port Harcourt, the state capital during an attack by gunmen. The gunmen [...]
The Lagos State Government has announced the closure of a school owned in the state by the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) over the drowning of a five-year-old pupil, Chidere Eze. The pupil had reportedly drowned in May during a swimming [...]
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