The Police Command in Ebonyi on Friday confirmed the death of two children in a kerosene explosion which occurred at Ezzamgbo, Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Loveth Odah, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the matter was reported at the Divisional Police Station […]
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Germany’s luxury automaker BMW is going to recall 23,700 diesel cars in Europe over an engine fire danger, following a similar action in South Korea, a German media newspaper reported Tuesday. The recall is to fix a faulty component that was aimed at reducing emissions from diesel engines, the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said in […]
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Reports say that a section of Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s office in Osun, popularly known as Bola Ige House, was on Monday razed by fire. It was gathered the fire started from an air conditioner which was inside the governor’s office but the governor was not around as at that time. A correspondent of the News […]
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The Terminus main market in Jos, Plateau state capital, was razed down by an inferno in the early hours of Saturday. Adie Undie, Plateau police commissioner, who confirmed the incident, said the fire started around 1:30am. Undie said the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. “This incident happened around 1:30.a.m and our […]
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The Lagos State Government has restricted movement of Fuel Tankers to designated trailer route. This is coming following the tragic tanker explosion on Otedola Bridge inward Ojodu Berger along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway which claimed lives and property. The state government also said it was now mandatory for all articulated trucks coming into Lagos to obtain the […]
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Nine persons died in the petrol tanker fire around Otedola Bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Thursday after it caught fire and spread the inferno to the vehicles behind, the Federal Road Safety Corps said. The FRSC also said in its update that the victims were burnt beyond recognition. There were four other serious injuries. […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari will today, Thursday, visit Bauchi State, in order to condole with victims of the windstorm and fire disaster in the state. President Buhari had earlier sent a delegation, headed by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, to Bauchi State following the windstorm and fire incident that occurred in the state last weekend. […]
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At least 24 person died while 176 were rescued in the fire outbreaks which occurred in Delta between May 2015 and April 2018. Ernest Ogwezzy, the state Commissioner in charge of Directorate of the Bureau for Special Duties disclosed this in Asaba, the state capital, on Monday at an annual news conference of the bureau. […]
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Following reports that there was a fire outbreak at the headquarters of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in Abuja on Tuesday evening, the apex bank has come out to debunk the claim. The incident was said to have started around 6:30pm but firefighters brought it under control after 30 minutes. The billows of smoke […]
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An explosion was reported at the residence of John Nwodo, president of of Ohanaeze Ndigbo,the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, on Sunday. It was gathered that the explosion shattered some window panes and roof of a part of the house located at Ukehe town in Nsukka, Enugu state. Ebere Amaraizu, spokesman of the state police command, […]
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