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Tragedy: 2 polytechnic staff electrocuted in Ekiti

Tragedy struck in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday as two staff of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, were electrocuted. Eyewitness informed journalists in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, that the victims were staff of the polytechnic’s department of works and were said to have died while working on a defective borehole on campus. READ ALSO: Reps okay […]

Son strangles father to death

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Ibadan – An Iyaganku Senior Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan on Thursday remanded 32-year-old Ibrahim Isiaka in Agodi Correctional Centre for allegedly strangulating his father to death. The Senior Magistrate, Mrs T. B . Ogunkanmi, who did not take the plea of the defendant, ordered that he should be remanded in custody pending receipt of […]

Tragedy as moving train kills Unilag undergraduate at Ikeja

…as eyewitnesses say victim’s airpiece was a hindrance A fast -8moving train coming from Sango area in Ogun State heading towards Iddo Terminal in Lagos, knocked down and killed a young man in his mid 30s yesterday at Anifowoshe area in Ikeja, Lagos State. The accident occurred along the railway line at about 8: am […]

Kerosene adulteration and attendant tragedy

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Kerosene adulteration in the country has left in its trail many casualties both in human and material. It creates cause for worry because it dates back to time. More worrisome is in the fact that the culprits seem intractable while the trend is difficult to arrest. Adulteration of the product comes at a huge cost […]

New Year Eve tragedy: 5 killed, 13 injured in Ogun autocrash

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Five people including three males, one female adult and a boy lost their lives at about 9.00am, on Sunday, at Ogere end of the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State. The incident, according to Commander Florence Okpe of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Ogun State Command involved a white Mazda commercial vehicle with registration number DDA […]

Building collapse in Owerri

Several fatalities have been recorded in a building collapse in Owerri, the capital of Imo State. More to follow

New Year Tragedy: Siblings drown inside river, die

Tragedy struck at Oke-Ijetu along Ilesa garage in Osogbo, the state capital of Osun on the eve of new year as two siblings drowned inside a river and died. Our correspondent learnt on Sunday that the victims were teenagers. It was learnt that the victims had travelled to Osogbo to celebrate the new year festival. […]

This Nigerian State

A man had told me that I was too ‘young and smart’ to be so ‘preoccupied by ethnicity’ and my reply to him went as such: ‘you will not understand you are not a minority. Nigeria is not a fair state.’ This Nigerian state is a tragedy, a tragedy of theatrical proportion. This Nigerian state […]