Tag: Convoy
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Hoodlums attack Uzodinma’s convoy with pistol, machetes
The Police in Imo State have arrested 15 people who allegedly attacked the convoy of Governor Hope Uzodimma on Monday. He was on his way to the 34 Attilary Brigade, Obinze, to inaugurate an officers mess built by the state government when the incident occurred. The hoodlums, armed with guns and machetes, claimed to be…
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Police detain Afenifere chieftain for obstructing Osinbajo’s convoy
A chieftain of pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere has apologised for unknowingly obstructing the convoy of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo earlier today in Ikoyi, Lagos state, police sources have said. The National Organising Secretary of Afenifere, Abagun Kole Omololu, was earlier held by Lagos Police for breaching the convoy of the Vice President. Omololu explained to the…
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DISASTER: Five adults, two children killed in Obaseki’s convoy crash
Five adults and two children, were on Saturday morning killed in an auto accident involving the advance team of Governor Godwin Obaseki on Benin-Auchi Expressway. Several other persons including one of the Governor’s driver were also injured in the accident which occurred at Ehorin Uhunmwode Local Government Area. The accident occurred when a Toyota Hilux…
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Presidency dismisses reports of attacks on Osinbajo’s convoy in Kwara
The Presidency has dismissed media reports that the convoy of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was attacked on Thursday in Ilorin, capital of Kwara. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity, Office of the Vice President, ‘Laolu Akande described the media and social media as false. He also explained that VP Osinbajo did…
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BREAKING: Drama as police block Saraki, Ekweremadu’s residences [video]
Operatives from the Special Anti Robbery Squad unit of the Nigeria Police, on Tuesday morning, have blocked the convoy of Senate President Bukola Saraki from leaving his Maitama Residence. The stern-looking policemen, it was learnt, stormed the residence at about 6:00a.m. and prevented vehicles from coming in or going out of the expansive residence of…
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Doctor, mother, child, others severely injured in Obaseki’s convoy accident
The convoy of the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, was on Wednesday involved in a accident at the ever busy Ugbowo-lagos Express road. The accident which occurred in front of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) Maingate, left the bus conveying the governor’s press crew marked (EDGH 278) badly destroyed and some journalists sustained…
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[PHOTOS] Tambuwal, convoy ferried across River Benue
Governor Aminu Tambuwal on Wednesday led a delegation to Ibi Local Government Area of Taraba State to pay a condolence visit to the former chief whip of the House of Representatives, Isiaka Bawa, who lost his mother, Hajiya Hadiza, recently. In the accompanying pictures, the governor and his convoy were ferried across River Benue into…
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Boko Haram ambushes military, police convoy, kills two, injures several others
Suspected Boko Haram fighters on Tuesday ambushed a large convoy of travellers being escorted by armed soldiers killing a police officer and one of the truck drivers. The ambush, which occurred about 10 a.m. on Tuesday, was on a large convoy of commercial, private and government vehicles travelling from Maiduguri to the southern part of…
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One feared dead as trailer rams into NDDC’s MD convoy
One of the policemen attached to Mr Nsima Ekere, Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has been feared dead in a motor accident involving the commission’s convoy. The incident was said to have occurred on Thursday at the Akwa Ibom axis of Calabar-Ituran when the convoy ran into a trailer. The Director of Corporate…
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Amosun escapes death as CBN bullion van rams into convoy
Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun on Thursday escaped death in an auto accident at the Ibafo axis of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The governor’s Senior Special Assistant on Media, Mr Juwon Soyinka, said in a statement that the incident happened when a bullion van belonging to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) ran into Amosun’s convoy…