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23 Feb
Mr Tony Roland, an expert in oil and gas, has urged relevant authorities to implement stringent licencing standards for fuel tanker drivers to reduce the high rate of accidents and its attendant losses. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja on Sunday, Roland said a driver must attain specific qualification…
30 Jan
The Niger State Government has donated the sum of N174 million to victims of the dynamite explosion that occurred in Sabon Pegi, Mashegu Local Government Area (LGA). Governor Umaru Bago announced the cash donation when he visited the scene of the explosion to commiserate with the victims and the community members. According to a statement…
29 Jan
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has provided medical supplies for the treatment of injured victims of the tanker fire explosion in Enugu State. The Director General of NEMA, Mrs Zubaida Umar, made this known in a statement she shared on her official X account after visiting Enugu State. "Following the tragic tanker fire explosion…
27 Jan
Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake, on Monday revealed that the explosion at a mining site in Sabon Pegi, Mashegun Local Government Area of Niger State on Sunday was caused by the illegal stockpiling of explosives. Alake dispatched officials of the Federal Mines Office in the state to the blast site for an…
26 Jan
The Niger State Police Command has disclosed that there was an explosion of some suspected dynamites at Sabon-Pegi in Mashegu Local Government Area of the state on Sunday, January 26, 2025, at around 7:30 am. The command spokesperson, SP Wasiu Abiodun, who disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen in Minna, explained that the…
20 Jan
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has said it is not responsible for the explosion of the NNPC wellhead in Buguma, Rivers State. Spokesman of the Airforce, Air Vice Marshal Olusola Akinboyewa, who debunked the insinuation, hinted that it noted with concern a misleading report by certain media outlets suggesting that the NAF may have been…
8 Jan
In a bold move to prevent future gas explosions and protect the lives and property of residents, the Executive Chairman of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, Chijioke Ihunwo, sealed off a cooking gas refilling station in Rumuokwuta on Tuesday. The chairman, who led his team to the site following a tip-off, made it…
6 Jan
Two Almajiri students in Kuchibiyu Community in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), were killed and two others injured as a deadly explosion rocked an Islamiyyah school on Monday. A public health practitioner in charge of the public health facility in the area who received the victims explained that one of the…
9 Nov
The Jigawa State Emergency Management Agency (JISEMA) has distributed relief materials to the affected families of Majia tanker explosion, which occurred in Taura local government area of the state. The items distributed by the agency on Saturday in Majia town include 25kg bags of rice, 25kg bags of millet, cartons of spaghetti, Maggi cube, seasoning,…
20 Oct
President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State and National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Umar Ganduje have expressed their condolences to the people of Jigawa and the state government as the death toll in a tanker explosion in the state exceeded 174. Already, various leaders…
17 Oct
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has confirmed that no life was lost in Wednesday’s tanker explosion in the Ibafo axis of the Lagos -Ibadan Expressway. Mrs Florence Okpe, the FRSC spokesperson in Ogun, said this in a statement in Abeokuta, on Thursday. Okpe said that the incident occured at 1:00 a.m Wednesday and it…
9 Sep
A fuel tanker exploded after colliding with a truck carrying passengers and cattle in northern Nigeria, killing at least 59 people, a rescue agency said on Monday. Photographs released by the Niger State Emergency Management Agency or SEMA showed workers burying more than a dozen blackened and charred bodies of victims from Sunday's early morning…
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