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Boat Mishap in Hungary: 7 dead, 19 missing

Boat Mishap in Hungary: 7 dead, 19 missing

May 30, 2019 7:38 am

At least seven South Korean tourists have died and another 19 are missing after a tour boat sank on the Danube River in Budapest, according to the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Thirty-four people were on board the vessel when it collided with another large tourist boat in the Hungarian capital and capsized Wednesday at around 10 p.m. local time, according to CNN affiliate ATV.

The boats collided in the center of the city, near Hungary’s riverside Parliament Building and the Elisabeth Bridge.

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CBN reveals $14.2bn capital flows to Nigeria in five Months

CBN denies trending ‘stolen, missing money’ story

May 12, 2019 5:08 pm

There is no  money  missing or stolen from the  Central Bank of Nigeria’s  coffers as reported in some section of the media, the  bank’s spokesman Isaac Okoroafor said.

Okoroafor, the Director Corporate Communications,  made the refutal in a statement on Sunday while reacting to a recent article and audio clips in which the CBN Governor and other senior officials were heard  discussing discrepancies in the bank’s accounts.

Okoroafor said that the audio was distorted in a manner which creates a different impression of the matter being discussed, which was to proffer solutions to a misunderstanding that affected the Bank’s balance

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2019 Elections: Four missing after Delta boat mishap

March 10, 2019 9:26 am

Four persons have been declared missing after a boat returning from a voting exercise capsized in the Benin River in Delta state.

The Nation gathered that the victims, who were returning to Koko, the headquarters of Warri North council area of the state, were in a boat loaded with 22 persons, including three policemen, coming from Ebrohimi community, also in Warri North council area.

Sources said the boat accident, which happened at about 1:20am on Sunday morning, occurred around Ureju community, also in Warri North. The passengers, who said to be community members, were returning to Koko after exercising their …

Chaos as INEC retrieves 23 missing card readers in Bayelsa

March 7, 2019 12:30 pm

 Begs thieves to return 46 others

There was confusion in Bayelsa State ahead of the forthcoming election on Saturday following the inability of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to retrieve all the 69 missing card readers.

The commission declared 69 card readers missing shortly after conducting the Presidential and National Assembly elections and begged persons in their possession to return them.

But it was gathered that out of the missing number 23 were returned by unknown persons while 46 were still with unknown politicians.

Some politicians were unhappy at the development raising fears that without retrieving all the stolen …

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