Tag: Tragedy
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Okorocha’s bridges are tragedy waiting to happen – COREN
…accuses governor of building bridges without professional design The President of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria, (COREN) Kashim Ali has accused Governor Rochas Okorocha led Imo State Government of constructing bridges without professional design across the state, insisting that such are tragedy waiting to happen. Ali who revealed this while addressing…
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33 dead, several injured in Sallah tragedies
One Boko Haram attack, three auto accidents thirty-three deaths, several injuries. The foregoing was the situation in parts of Borno, Ogun and Edo states on Friday after Boko Haram terrorists attacked an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP’s) camp at Banki on Nigeria’s border with Cameroon, stabbing 11 to death, and a timber laden truck ploughed into…
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Tragedy as robbers attack banks, monarch’s palace in Ekiti, kill manager, 3 others
…I thought Boko Haram had invaded my town – Oore of Otun, Oba Adedapo Oladele Popoola There was pandemonium on Thursday evening at in Otun Ekiti, the headquarters of Moba Local Government Area of Ekiti State, when dare devil armed robbers numbering more than 30 attacked two commercial banks and killed four people. A bank…
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Tragedy as 18 die in Jigawa road crash
No fewer than 18 persons died in an accident involving a tipper and a J5 bus on Gumel-Gugunju road in Gumel Local Government Area of Jigawa. The Sector Commander of the Federal Roads Safety Corps in the state, Angus Ibezim, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse on Saturday. Mr. Ibezim…
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Tragedy struck as bus plunges into canal in Lagos, killing three
A bus belonging to G.U.O Transport Services Ltd conveying travellers from Enugu on Friday plunged into a river at the Owode-Mile 12 river along the Lagos-Ikorodu road. According to the spokesperson for the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, South West zone, Ibrahim Farinloye, three people were recovered dead. He said 48 people have been rescued.…
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Tragedy struck in Kebbi as man, wife, three children die in generator fire
Tragedy stuck in Kebbi on Tuesday as a couple, Kehinde and Kehinde Sarafa were burnt to death with their kids in a fire that gutted their apartment. The unfortunate incident happened in Koko town in the Koko Local Government area of Kebbi State. The couple’s three children, Abdullahi (male, four years old); Alimat (female,…
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The tragedy of blame transference syndrome – Omonokhua
By Cornelius Afebu Omonokhua The word “blame” is as old as the creation of humanity. The story of the fall of Adam and Eve in the third chapter of Genesis captures blame as a syndrome of the human person. The serpent (Genesis 3:1) tempted Eve but did not force her to eat the forbidden fruit.…