Tag Archives: road accident

A truck driver died while his assistant sustained serious injuries in a road crash on Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The crash, which occurred at 4 am. yesterday, involved two vehicles carrying a total of three persons.  The Public Relations Officer of the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the incident in a statement he released in Abeokuta yesterday.  READ ...

Eight persons were confirmed dead, while a pregnant woman and a child sustained injuries in an accident involving a blue Toyota Corolla Sports car around Ewekoro area of Ogun State, on the Lagos/Abeokuta Expressway. Spokesperson, Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Mr. Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the incident to the newsmen in Abeokuta on Sunday. Akinbiyi explained that the accident, which occurred ...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) yesterday said 1,602 died in 2,805 road crashes recorded in the last quarter of 2017. Speaking yesterday in Jos, the Plateau State capital, at a safe motoring campaign flag-off, FRSC Corps Mashal Boboye Oyeyemi said the corps would be strict on its conduct of vision acuity tests to ensure all drivers on the roads ...

Buba Galadima, chairman of the Reformed All Progressives Congress (r-APC), was involved in a motor accident along Hadeija-Kano road in Jigawa state on Monday. Galadima was returning from Yobe state where he went to condole with his brother who lost his daughter, when the tragic incident occurred. He was in the company of his son, Sadiq Galadimma, a relative Mohammed ...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Osun Command, has urged stakeholders in transport sector to collaborate with its personnel in curbing accident on the roads in the state. The Sector Commander, Mr. Peter Oke, gave the Advice during his meeting with stakeholders on Friday in Osogbo. He stressed that efforts aimed at ensuring constant safety of life on high ...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Katsina State has confirmed that 11 youths lost their lives in a road accident Sunday night while celebrating Sallah. Mr. Godwin Ngueku, the Katsina Sector Commander of the corps, confirmed the incident to the on Monday in Katsina. Ngueku said that the accident occurred when on a Peugeot Saloon Car carrying the youths ...

The Nigeria Professional Football League has lost another professional footballer to road accident. This occurs few months after former Enyimba skipper Chinedu Udoji died in a ghastly auto crash. Hussaini Isiah, a Niger Tornadoes defender, died on Monday in a motorcycle accident along Maitumbi Road, Minna, Niger State. “With sorrow heart, we painfully announced the sudden exit of our dedicated ...

Not less than 12 persons were sent to their early graves in Ogun state in a ghastly motor accident which occurred Saturday. Eight other passengers sustained various degrees of injuries. The incident occurred Saturday at about 12:25 pm at Fidiwo village, an Ogun community, sharing common border with Oyo State. It was gathered that the ghastly motor accident road  involved two ...

The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in Niger said on Wednesday that five people were killed in an accident on Bida-Sabon Gida-Minna Road. FRSC Sector Commander, Yusuf Garba, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna. He said 19 persons, who were critically injured in the accident, were receiving treatment at the Bida General ...

According to Y Naija, thirty people have reportedly died after an auto accident on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Thursday night. Spokesman for the Federal Road Safety Corps, Bisi Kazeem, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abuja on Friday. Kazeem said the accident occurred at about 8pm at Km 95 around the Elebolo Quary Area on the Ibadan axis of the ...