Tag: Die
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Sad! Four die, 12 injured on Lagos-Ibadan expressway accident
Four persons were confirmed dead, while 12 others sustained various degrees of injuries in a lone accident, involving a Mazda bus around Isara bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, Spokesperson, Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abeokuta on Monday. Akinbiyi said that…
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Another prominent Kano monarch is dead
Dr. Wada Ibrahim Waziri, the Sa’in Bichi, Hakimin Dambatta has passed on at the age of 89. According to family sources, the prominent monarch died Wednesday morning after a protracted illness related to old age. The late monarch who was at one time the District Head of Makoda was born into a royal family and…
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Dubai returnee dies of COVID-19 in Lagos
A 32-year-old man, who recently returned from Dubai, has died of coronavirus-related complications in Lagos State. The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made this known on Tuesday. Abayomi said the deceased returned from Dubai with severe underlying health conditions. Data released by the commissioner also showed that of the total 1,949 confirmed…
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Panic in Ekiti as 59-year-old woman slumps, dies while urinating
Palpable tension engulfed Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Wednesday when a 59-year-old unmarried woman, Victoria Yemisi Omoare, reportedly slumped and died while urinating. According to a report by The Nation, the incident occurred at about 9:45 am at Ilokun area close to Abattoir, along the busy Ado-Iworoko road. Narrating the incident, the driver of…
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Two Customs officers die while chasing vehicle
Two men of the Nigeria Customs Service attached to the Oron Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, reportedly died in an auto crash on Sunday while pursuing a bus suspected to be carrying smuggled rice. Two other customs officers and the driver of the bus being chased were said to have sustained varying degrees…
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Five Nigerian pilgrims die in Saudi Arabia
National Hajj Commission of Nigeria on Tuesday confirmed the death of five Nigerian pilgrims in Saudi Arabia. The Chairman of the National Medical Team, Ibrahim Kana, released the figure Tuesday in Madinah from the commission’s National Medical Team Electronic Health Medical Records. “So far, Nigeria has lost five pilgrims including three females and two males;…
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Mortuary union embarks on strike, warns people ‘not to die for now’
Mortuary Staff Union in Ghana, on Thursday, advised members of the public to wait until their strike is over on November 20th, before dying. Richard Kofi Jordan, General Secretary of the union gave the advice while indicating that the union’s planned strike action would go on as planned unless the government listens to their concerns,…
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Panic as mother, four children die from electrocution
A mother, Asmau Shehu and her four children, Yusuf, Rabiat, Ummul, and Hadi have been electrocuted in Anguwan Sarkin Hausawa, Bosso Local Government Area of Niger. Ibrahim Husssaini, the Public Relations Officer, State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA), confirmed the tragedy in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Wednesday. Mr…
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Panic as APC leader falls from two-storey building, dies
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bayelsa State chapter, Chief Lionel Jonathan-Omo, is dead. Jonathan-Omo, the Deputy Campaign Director General of Sylva/Igiri Campaign Organisation during the 2016 governorship election in the state reportedly had a fatal fall from the balcony of his two-storey building in his country home in Beleu-Pogo in Ogbolomabiri, Nembe…
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Pandemonium as man slumps, dies during presentation at ICPC event
There was pandemonium in Abuja on Tuesday as a yet unidentified man slumped and died while presenting a paper at a programme organised by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission, ICPC. According to a report by Premium Times, the man who was described as a representative of an invited organisation at the…