A tanker has exploded at the Lagos Quadrapont bridge (better known as Iganmu bridge). Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LASTMA) tweeted late Thursday: “A tanker has gone up in flames just before Iganmu bridge from Sifax. LASTMA has already alerted the @LagosRescue. Our officers at the scene are doing their best to handle the situation”. According to a series of tweets …

No fewer than 18  persons have been burnt to death by fire that engulfed an illegal oil refinery site at Ibaa, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. Twenty-five others at the scene were injured when the inferno broke out Sunday night. An amateur video of the fire showed remains of children, men and women littering the scene. The Commandant of …

A petrol tanker explosion in Koko, Warri North local government area of Delta State has claimed several lives estimated to be 20. The incident happened yesterday morning when residents of the area rushed to the scene to scoop fuel from the burning vehicle. Unofficial sources put the death toll at 20 with several others affected with severe degrees of burnt. …

Tragedy struck on Sunday, in Jalingo, Taraba State capital, as a hit-and-run driver killed a 400 level student of the Taraba State University. The incident, which occurred on the day Nigeria marked its 63rd independence anniversary, was described as tragic by eyewitnesses. The student, whose name was given as Joseph Afara, was said to have been on his way to …

Family members of a 34-year-old groom-to-be in Ibadan, Oyo state, identified as Bosun, are currently mourning the loss of their son, who died on the eve of his wedding. The groom, Bosun, and his best man were killed along Idi-Ape Road when they were returning from his bachelor’s eve party. Two other people, including the groom’s friends, were also killed …

A young man died in a traffic accident on Tuesday morning, which involved an upturned loaded truck at Otedola Bridge, Ojodu Berger, Lagos State. The accident resulted in traffic congestion inward Lagos/Ibadan Expressway and Ojodu Berger as the bridge is flooded. In its situation report, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said that the “young adult male, who happens to …

A fatal accident involving a towing van belonging to the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and a Dangote truck has resulted in the death of one person and critically injured three others. The accident occurred on Friday at about 3 am on the Kugbo-Nyanya Expressway, near Karu Bridge. The VIO Area Commander in Kugbo, Walter Amechi, told the News Agency …

The President of the Lagos chapter of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), Mr. Lekan Akinwumi has commiserated with the family of Dr. Vwaere Daiso, the victim of the lift accident at the House Officers’ Quarters of the General Hospital, Odan, Lagos Island recenly. “We all wish the accident never happened as it has claimed the life of a promising …

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), on Monday, said it rescued seven motherless children in a domestic fire that engulfed an orphanage on Sunday afternoon in the Aguda area of the state. In a statement by its Public Affairs Unit Head, Mr. Nosa Okunbor, the agency said that seven male children, aged between one and seven, were rescued by …

Four persons have lost their lives while 11 others sustained varying degrees of injuries in a lone accident involving a Foton bus at the Aiyetoro axis on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The Public Relations Officer for Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Mr. Babatunde Akinbiyi confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta on Sunday. Akinbiyi said the accident which occurred …