A 42-two-year old man, Izuchukwu Achusim has reportedly drowned in a swimming pool in a hotel in Onitsha, Anambra state. Daily Times gathered that he was drunk before jumping into the swimming pool and was said to have gone to the hotel with his girlfriend on Saturday night to swim in the pool. Police spokesperson, […]
Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Anambra State Sector Commander, Mr Andrew Kumapayi, on Thursday, confirmed the death of a middle-aged woman crushed by a truck while trying to cross the highway along Onitsha-Awka expressway. Kumapayi told newsmen in Awka that the driver lost control of the truck while trying to avoid pedestrians crossing the highway. […]
The Police Command in Anambra has arrested a 32- year -old man for allegedly defiling a seven- year- old girl at Okpoko near Onitsha. The state’s Police Spokesman, Mr Haruna Mohammed, who disclosed this in Awka on Thursday in a statement, gave the identity of the suspect as Chigbo Akpoluobi, a resident of Obodoukwu Road, Nkitaku, Okpoko, […]
The Anambra state Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Andrew Kumapayi on Tuesday confirmed the death of two persons as a tipper rammed into people at Upper-Iweka axis in Onitsha. The FRSC official said in Awka that the tipper had break failure and the driver lost control of the vehicle. The commander […]
National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) on Friday said that the process of concessioning the Onitsha River Port had begun. The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of NIWA, Dr. George Moghalu, told newsmen at the sidelines of a stakeholders meeting in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the meeting was between NIWA and key operators […]
A road traffic accident involving a truck around Upper-Iweka, Onitsha in Anambra has led to the death of a pedestrian. Mr Andrew Kumapayi, State Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Anambra, confirmed the incident to our reporters on Friday in Awka. Kumapayi said the accident, which occurred at about 3:20 p.m., […]
Awka – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Anambra Command, has said a tanker loaded with 33,000 litres of petrol with no registration number, on Wednesday got burnt at Nkpor area in Onitsha. The Sector Commander, Mr Andrew Kumapayi, said that the tanker caught fire at about 6:50 p.m. According to him, an investigation revealed that the […]
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Anambra Command, on Friday said no casualty was recorded in the tanker that burnt at Upper Iweka in Onitsha. The state Sector Commander, Mr Andrew Kumapayi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the tanker loaded with 33,000 litres of petrol with no registration number, caught fire about 2:30.a.m. on […]
‘What Napoleon could not do, however, President Buhari is now doing, despite getting negligible number of votes from the area in the two elections he has won’ Femi Adesina Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity) has said Adesina speaking on the Second Niger Bridge, being built by the Muhammadu Buhari government in an […]
The Chairman, Central Pharmaceutical and Allied Wholesale Market, Onitsha Bridgehead, Mr. Uchenna Eze, says the construction of the Coordinated Wholesale Drug Centre at Oba, near Onitsha, Anambra State will commence in January 2020. Eze said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Onitsha on Thursday, pointing out that the project […]
Another tanker laden with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) on Thursday fell into a ditch by Chipex Petroleum Station around Upper Iweka axis within Onitsha, the commercial hub of Anambra. Mr Emeka Obinwa, Executive Assistant to Governor Willie Obiano on State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) Media confirmed the incident to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on […]
The woman that the Police in Anambra said died following petrol tanker fire incident on Wednesday in Onitsha has been revealed. The woman according to the Sun, Ifeoma Obi, and her child were killed by fire when they fell into the big gutter at the Ochanja First Gate while trying to escape. A neighbour to […]
The afternoon tanker fire incident on Upper Iweka axis of the commercial city of Onitsha in Anambra State on Wednesday is yet one in the many of such disheartening avoidable accidents on Nigerian roads. Tanker fire incident has become an almost everyday occurrences in the Lagos – Ibadan highway and the ever busy Apapa wharf […]
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus has commiserated with the victims of the recent fire out break that gutted a section of the popular Ochanja market in Onitsha, Anambra state. Prince Secondus said that the fire incident that led to loss of lives and lots of property is very […]
Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condoled with the victims of Wednesday petrol tanker fire in Onitsha, Anambra. The party, in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, on Thursday in Abuja, said that the PDP was shocked by the devastating fire outbreak. He described the incident as heartbreaking […]
The tragic fire incident at Ochanja market in Onitsha which destroyed properties and also claimed lives yesterday October 16, is reportedly still on this morning October 17. Eyewitnesses alleged that the state government couldn’t provide a fire truck and had to borrow from the Delta State Government. The borrowed fire truck reportedly didn’t come with […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the death of a mother and her child as a result of an oil tanker accident in Onitsha, Anambra. Reacting to the incident in a statement by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, on Wednesday, President Buhari said: “I am profoundly touched by the sight of the charred remains […]
Not fewer than six buildings and shops were burnt on Wednesday at Upper Iweka, on Onitsha/Awka Road in Onitsha, after a 33,000 litre Diesel tanker fell and caught fire. Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra, has sympathised with the family of a woman and her child burnt to death in a truck accident in Onitsha, the […]
[PRAYER FOR ONITSHA] "Our thoughts and prayers? go out to the victims and families of the Onitsha oil tanker fire incident. We call on Anambra state govt, emergency services & security agencies to do the needful urgently" – APC UK @WillieMObiano @raufaregbesola @Fedfireng pic.twitter.com/Iex1qgMzVz — APC United Kingdom (@APCUKingdom) October 17, 2019 Gov. Willie Obiano […]
Ebenezer Chima, president-general, Igbo Community Association in Kano, and Boniface Ibekwe, Sarki Ndigbo, condemned the action of the suspects. Abiodun gives automatic employment to Ilaro Poly best graduating student SP Haruna Mohammed, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state confirmed the death in a statement issued to journalists in Awka. Mohammed said that the […]