As we gradually count down to the end of 2019, we need to ponder on our driving behavior. We also need to ponder on the numerous tragedies and deaths as well as injuries through road traffic crashes which were all avoidable. To guide your thoughts please allow me to share a piece I used at the beginning of 2019.It started thus;last night after having a drink too many steve olufemi sodiya,aka ,OJJ(omuti jati jati)left the party quietly and left his car behind because he knew drunk driving was dangerous .he took a taxi. From the party his friends phoned him …
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), said its fighter jets have bombarded another stronghold belonging to members of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP), and killed scores of their members at Mallam Fatori on the fringes of the Lake Chad in the Northern part of Borno State.
NAF Director of Public Relations and Information Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, Inna statement said “Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters have suffered severe losses in a joint counter-offensive mounted by the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE and troops of the 89 and 97 Task Force Battalions of …
She was then taken in for a private health check-up, the Kon Tum Centre for Disease Control said in a statement.
She was admitted in the hospital in Kon Tum City on Nov. 3, for intensive treatment but died on Nov. 8, the statement said.
Test results confirm she contracted A/H1N1
The Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) “have recorded 49 dead, three wounded and material damage, and some 20 survivors have been recovered,” it said on its Facebook page on Saturday.
“The situation is under FAMa control.”
The government on Friday had
An extremely hot porridge being transported in a tricycle in Bauchi has claimed the lives of three children, aged between nine months and nine years.
The porridge was transported in a jumbo-size plastic flask when the tricycle plunged into a pothole and upturned, emptying its contents on its occupants who suffered severe burns and later died.
A relation of the victims, Malam Auwal Bala said, yesterday, that the tragedy occurred on Wednesday while the family was celebrating the marriage of a member.
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“Three women and six children were inside …
The military in Japan scrambled Sunday to rescue people trapped by flooding after powerful Typhoon Hagibis ripped across the country, killing at least 11 people and leaving more than a dozen missing.
The storm’s heavy rain triggered deadly landslides and caused rivers to burst their banks. The destruction forced Rugby World Cup organisers to cancel the third match of the tournament though the key Japan-Scotland clash will go ahead.
By Sunday morning, the significantly weakened storm had moved back off land, but severe flooding was reported in central Japan’s Nagano, where a burst levee sent water from the Chikuma river …
A 25-year-old Zimbabwean man Lonias Jojo has allegedly axed his 72-year-old father and dumped the body in a disused mine shaft to save his marriage which his dead father was against.
Jojo allegedly hatched a plan to kill his father, Luke Robert Jojo with his 18-year-old wife, Brenda Dube of Village 4 Greenspan, Chief Bvute in Mberengwa last week Thursday.
Reports say the dead man did not like his daughter in law and always insisted that his son should divorce her.
Midlands Provincial Spokesperson, Inspector Goko confirmed the incident.
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“On …
At least 50 people were killed in Nigeria when fuel from a crashed truck that they were siphoning up caught fire, a spokesman for the governor in central Benue state said on Tuesday.
“A tanker loaded with fuel fell yesterday (Monday) and people were scooping its products when it caught fire, killing over 50 persons,” the spokesman said. Others were badly injured and taken to hospital.
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Such incidents are relatively common in Nigeria, though rarely is the death toll so high. While fuel is cheap, many live in extreme …
Nigerian popular musician TY Bello, has added her voice to the ongoing debate on rape following the allegation leveled against Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) by Mrs Busola Dakolo, wife of inspiration singer Timi Dakolo.
TY Bello who took to her Instagram page to state her own experience noted that she was also sexually abused at her younger age.
She said that being silent after she was sexually abused killed her slowly.
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The 40-year-old singer said that she only found relief because …
Police in southern Pakistan have arrested a man for killing his HIV-positive wife in an epidemic-hit region, officials said on Thursday.
The man in the town of Ratto Dhero strangled his wife on the suspicion of cheating on him and hanged her body on a tree to make the death look like a suicide, police official Waheed Mangi said.
Situated in the province of Sindh, Ratto Dhero is a small town where around 800 people, mostly children, have tested positive for HIV in past two months.
The man killed his 32-year-old wife because he believed that the HIV infection meant …
Four pupils of Ugwube primary school of Ugwube, Oba, Idemili South local government area in Anambra state, have been reportedly crushed to death by a driver along Oba/Nnewi old road.
The deceased were said to be on their way home after school hours when the driver, alleged to have suffered a brake failure, rammed into them.
The Nation gathered that four of the pupils died on the spot while over 10 of them sustained various degrees of injuries.
An eye witness said the driver of the vehicle was coming from Onitsha axis on a high speed when he suddenly had …
A tanker laden with petrol on Thursday fell and caught fire claiming two lives and burning four vehicles at Iwo road area of Ibadan around 3:00 p.m.
An eye witness, AbdulAzeez Hammed, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the tanker which fell and spilled its content, razed no fewer than four vehicles.
Hammed said he saw a man in one of the affected vehicles removing his child from the back of his wife when they saw the fire approaching their vehicle.
The witness said the husband and the child escaped while the fire caught the wife in the …
