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  • Car in reverse mode knocks down 4-year-old boy

    A 49-year-old driver, Adenowo Adeyiga, on Tuesday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, charged with knocking down a four- year-old boy fatally while reversing his car.

    The defendant, whose address was not given in court, is facing a three-count charge of reckless driving, manslaughter and driving without license to which he pleaded not guilty.

    The Prosecutor, Asp. Benson Emuerhi, told the court that the defendant committed the offences on May 4, at 12.00 pm along Adura Gbemi Street, Casso Alagbado, Lagos.

    “Adeyiga drove a Toyota Camry car with registration number KTU 242 FC recklessly, causing the death of the boy,” he said.

    According to the prosecutor, the defendant was reversing the vehicle and in the process, the deceased was hit.

    The victim died on the spot.

    The offences contravened Sections 7 (1), 20 (1), and 28 (1) of the Road Traffic Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    Chief Magistrate Olufunke Sule-Amzat, granted the defendant N500, 000 bail with two sureties in like sum, one of whom must be gainfully employed with an evidence of tax payment to the Lagos State Government.

    She adjourned the case until June 20 for mention.

    NAN

  • Several injured as train derails in Niger

    A Kano- bound passenger train from Lagos on Monday derailed in Maikunkele, Bosso local government area of Niger state injuring several people.

    The derailment took place between Maikunkele and Jangaru at about 1.30 pm.

    According to eyewitnesses, the first class coaches attached to the engine were not mostly affected while the canteen and the second class coaches fell off the rail.

    Five coaches in all were affected.

    The Nation gathered that the train had been on the way from Lagos in the past three days.

    The passengers, according to eyewitnesses, in a struggle for safety tried jumping off the window to safety causing a lot of injuries.

    It was gathered that the accident was caused by cattle crossing the railway with the train running into them.

    Some of the passengers, who were not injured, as at the time of filing this report, were looking for vehicles to convey them into Minna for them to continue their journey to Kano.

    The Nation gathered that an ambulance from the Nigeria Railway Corporation carried injured passengers to the hospital for treatment.

    Officials of the Nigeria Railway Corporation in Minna were unwilling to make any comment regarding the incident.

    They also were not forthcoming on the number of injuries and exact passengers in the train when our correspondent met them at the scene.

  • Tanker truck explodes in Niger, 55 persons die

    At least 55 people were killed on Monday in Niger when a tanker truck exploded near a petrol station in the capital Niamey, Interior Minister Mohamed Bazoum said.

    The explosion happened as some residents were trying to siphon fuel from the tanker near the airport, the minister wrote on Twitter.

    At least 37 people were injured and taken to hospitals.

    NAN

  • Two die, 10 injured on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway accident

    Two persons were confirmed dead while 10 others sustained injuries in an accident involving a Mazda bus at Danliti Ayetoro area on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
    Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi,  the Spokesperson,  Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE),  confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abeokuta on Monday.
    Akinbiyi explained that the accident occurred around 11am, saying that it was caused by excessive speeding which led to loss of control.
    He noted that the commercial bus with registration number DDA 729 XA , after losing control, hit a culvert and summersaulted,  adding that the driver and the bus conductor died in the accident.
    “The accident was caused by excessive speeding which resulted into loss of control. Four female and eight male were involved in the accident but the driver and the conductor died, ” he said.
    The TRACE spokesperson noted that the injured were taken to Famobic Hospital, Lotto in Mowe, saying that the families of the dead were already at the hospital to claim the bodies .

  • 17 injured as bus runs into worshippers in Adamawa

    A passenger bus ran into Christian worshippers in the Numan Local Government Area of Adamawa State on Monday, injuring 17 of them.

    The injured, many of them with serious bone fractures, were admitted into different hospitals around Numan, the local government headquarters.

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    Witnesses said the accident happened around 10 am and that the offending bus had been apprehended and the driver arrested.

    One of the witnesses, Stanley Jaule, said the affected members of the Christian community were marching towards a mountain which the locals call Galilee when the bus came over them from behind.

    “While they were in Easter procession, a passenger bus just came from behind them and injured so many people, mostly women and children,” Jaule said.

    He added that the accident almost caused a serious crisis from others in the procession who were angry at how the bus sped up into the procession, but that peace prevailed and the situation had calmed down.

  • Accident claims two lives on Lagos/Ibadan Expressway

    Two persons were confirmed dead yesterday in an accident involving a Volvo jeep and a Mack truck around Danco filling station on  the Lagos/Ibadan expressway.

    Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, Spokesperson, Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), said that  the accident occurred around 6:11pm when the a jeep, with registration number SGM 858 AA, which was on top speed, lost control and rammed into the stationary truck marked MUS 762 XD.

    “The two occupants (male) in the Volvo Jeep died on the spot, even though it took the TRACE, FRSC and police team some time to retrieve their bodies because it was already trapped,” he said.

    The TRACE spokesperson added that the corpses of the dead had been deposited at the morgue of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu.

     

     

  • UI student dead, two Injured as tricycle rams into truck in Ibadan

    A lady, identified as Adeniyi Balikis Olajumoke, suspected to be a student of Faculty of Science, University of Ibadan (UI) on Friday died when the tricycle she was in rammed into a waiting waste disposal truck at Leventis, along Sango-UI road, Ibadan.

    The accident which occured at about 9:30 am when the tricycle with number plate RU 152 UP, ran into the Marc Lammertyn waste disposal truck also left in its trail two others who are critically injured.

    According to an eye witness, Bamgbose Omobola over speeding of the tricycle driver was what led to the accident, adding that the lady died immediately the accident happened.

    “The lady was coming from GTB bank at Ajibade where she went to pay her school fees, the phone in her bag was recovered and this was what made it easy for us to get in touch with her parents.

    “The two other victims who had fractures in their head and leg had been taken to the hospital for treatment”.

    Another eyewitness, Adelowotan Adelani said that the original owner of the tricycle was christening his baby today(Friday), which was why he gave the tricycle to the driver involved in the accident named ‘Baba Mercy’

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    “The tricycle route was from Orita Merin to Sango, this accident would have not occurred if the waste disposal truck was not packed beside the roadside.

    “We are appealing to the present and the incoming government in Oyo State to stop these truck from evacuating refuse and packing on the roadside. The government should bring back the waste bin we are using before, whereby wastebasket has been put beside the road for the people to dump their refuse there.

    “Oyo State government should look for another way of evacuating refuse instead of using these truck and people should also stop dumping reduce on the roadside again”.

    When contacted, Police Public Relation Officer of the Oyo Command, Olugbenga Fadeyi, a superintendent confirmed the incident adding that the deceased works with a business organisation within the Sango, Ibadan axis.

    He added that the remains of the deceased had been deposited at Adeoyo Hospital, Ring Road, Ibadan while the two injured victims, whose identity was yet to be confirmed had been taken to the nearest hospital for treatment.

  • VIOs cause tanker accident in Minna

    Two Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIO) in Minna have caused a tanker accident injuring the driver and his boy.

    A struggle for the steering of the tanker caused the tanker which was filled with water to overturn at the eastern bypass in front of the Nigeria Customs Service office in Minna.

    One of the Officers was said to have jumped on the driver’s side of the tanker and started struggling for the steering with the driver which led to both losing control of the tanker.

    The other one was in hot pursuit with a motorcycle belonging to the VIO office.

    Eyewitnesses said that the driver and the VIO officer had been struggling with the steering from the Minna City gate however the reason why the officer had to jump into the tanker remains unknown.

    The driver and his boy sustained serious injuries when the tanker overturned while the VIO officer sustained minor injury.

    The victims were left unchecked as the VIO whisked their man who sustained injury in their van leaving bystanders to rescue the victims.

    The victims were taken to the IBB Specialist Hospital.

    The action of the Vehicle Inspection Officers angered tanker drivers who used their trucks to block the road preventing movement for hours demanding for the presence of government before they leave the road.

    Speaking to The Nation, the Discipline Officer of Water Tankers Association in Minna, Mohammed Musa lamented over what he termed ‘the overzealousness of the VIOs in Minna’.

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    He said that they (water tankers drivers) are harassed at will by the officers who demand money from them, “despite the fact that we pay tax to the state government through the water board.”

    “We blocked the road because we want the VIOs and government to come and tell us why the VIOs continually disturb us when we are carrying out our business.

    “They disturb us for minute issues just to give us problem. We want the government to warn the VIOs to leave us alone. If they have any problem with any of our drivers, they can trace the driver to our association office or the water board instead of struggling with the steering with them.”

    It took the presence of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transportation, Dr. Abdullahi Imam and the Police to quell the tempers of the tanker drivers before they willingly took their trucks off the road.

    The Permanent Secretary promised to take up the bills of the two injured persons and instructed that a young van come to toll the tanker away at the expense of the state government.

  • Three die as trucks collide in Ogun

    Three persons died on Monday in Ogun state when a tipper bearing granite rammed into the rear of a Sino truck marked NSR 89 YQ, killing three occupants of the tipper.

    The Iveco tipper truck bearing granite had just left a quarry site in Isara area of Remoland and was hurrying to Lagos to offload when the driver lost control of the wheel and crashed into the Sino truck marked with emblem of Dangote, a source told The Nation.

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    The driver of the Dangote truck was unaffected, the source added.

    The Public Relations Officer of the Ogun state Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, told The Nation the vehicles were taken to the Police Motor Traffic Division at Ogere while the remains of the dead were evacuated to a private morgue – FOS Mortuary, Ipara, Ogun state.

  • Three die in Lagos/Ibadan Expressway auto crash

    Three persons were on Monday confirmed dead in an accident involving a tipper loaded with granite and a Dangote truck around Mile 12 Market, Ogere, Ogun, on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway.

    Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, the Spokesperson for Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) in Ogun, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abeokuta.

    Akinbiyi said that the accident occurred around 5:45 a.m., saying that the accident was caused by the tipper with registration number MUS-589 XX.

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    “We learnt that the tipper was heading inbound Lagos on top speed from a Quarry at Isara. It lost control and rammed into the Dangote truck with registration number NSR-89 YQ from behind.

    “The three people who lost their lives were in the loaded tipper.

    “The two accidented vehicles were taken to the Police Motor Traffic Division at Ogere,’’ he said.

    Akinbiyi said that the corpses of the deceased had been deposited at FOS Mortuary, Ipara.