Category: Disaster
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GOV MOHAMMED MOURNS 7 JOURNALISTS KILLED IN GOMBE CRASH
Heartbreaking twist on a wedding return trip—tyre burst sends a bus of Gombe journalists plummeting off Billiri-Kumo Road, claiming seven lives and injuring four. Bauchi Gov. Bala Mohammed, a journalist himself, is gutted by the loss. The Monday tragedy struck NTA colleagues heading back from a colleague’s wedding, per Gov. Mohammed’s statement via aide Mukhtar…
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FIRE RIPS THROUGH LAGOS ARMY ARENA MARKET
Another day, another inferno in Lagos—imagine your go-to shopping spot for clothes going up in flames just before New Year’s Eve, but firefighters swoop in to save the rest? A blaze tore through parts of the bustling Army Arena Market at Bolade, Oshodi, on Tuesday evening, gutting 10 container shops packed with clothing bales before…
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LAGOS ORDERS URGENT EVACUATION AROUND BURNT GNI HIGH-RISE: SAFETY FIRST AFTER FIRE AFTERMATH
Lagos State Government sounded the alarm Tuesday, directing instant vacate for all residents and shops near the fire-ravaged 25-storey Great Nigeria Insurance (GNI) building on Martins Street, Lagos Island – experts’ post-Dec. 24 blaze checks revealed dire risks to every structure in a 100-metre zone, as Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu puts lives way ahead of any…
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INFORMATION MINISTER IDRIS MOURNS 7 GOMBE JOURNALISTS KILLED IN ROAD CRASH
Information and National Orientation Minister Alhaji Mohammed Idris expressed profound shock Tuesday over the tragic death of seven journalists in a lone vehicle accident in Gombe State Monday evening, as the newsmen returned from a wedding in the Gombe South Senatorial District attended in solidarity with an NTA colleague. In a statement from Special Assistant…
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ADAMAWA NUJ MOURNS 7 GOMBE JOURNALISTS KILLED IN TRAGIC CRASH – ‘PAINFUL BLOW TO MEDIA’
Adamawa NUJ Council fired off deep condolences Tuesday to national president Alhassan Yahaya over six journalists’ deaths in a devastating Gombe auto crash Monday at 5:30pm – the crew was heading back from a Kaltungo wedding when disaster struck, including two NTA Gombe staffers Signed by Chairman Abdullahi Ibrahim and Secretary Kissinger Bukar, the Yola…
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OGUN MOURNS TRAGIC CRASH: ANTHONY JOSHUA ESCAPES DEATH ON LAGOS-IBADAN EXPRESSWAY – 2 FOREIGNERS DEAD!
Ogun State Government sent heartfelt condolences Monday to families of two male foreign nationals killed in a horrific noon crash on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway’s Makun axis – world heavyweight champ Anthony Joshua and three others were en route from Lagos to Sagamu when speeding/wrongful overtaking slammed their vehicle into a stationary one! Joshua and the driver…
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LAGOS ISLAND HIGH-RISE BLAZE CONTAINED – 7 INJURED, NO FATALITIES
A massive fire tore through the 22-storey Great Nigeria Insurance House on Lagos Island Wednesday, injuring seven men with burns and five others (three men, two women) from smoke inhalation – but LASEMA heroes contained the inferno before it could claim lives. Perm Sec Dr. Oke-Osanyitolu confirmed first aid stabilized the smoke victims on-site for…
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PM VOWS IRON-FIST HATE LAWS AFTER SYDNEY JEWISH FESTIVAL BLOODBATH
Aussie PM Anthony Albanese owned up to gaps in fighting anti-Semitism Thursday in Canberra, slamming down tough new laws post-Sydney’s horrific Hanukkah terror shootout that killed 15 mostly Jewish revelers at Bondi Beach—vowing to crush hate-spreaders, radicals and immigration dodgers fueling division. Days after two IS-linked gunmen—one shot dead, the other 24-year-old nabbed with explosives,…
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SYDNEY BONDI BEACH HORROR: FATHER-SON DUO SLAYS 15 AT JEWISH HANUKKAH EVENT
A father-son pair unleashed hell at Sydney’s Bondi Beach Sunday evening, gunning down 15 at a crowded Hanukkah celebration in Australia’s bloodiest mass shooting in nearly three decades now 16 dead with the 50-year-old dad Sajid Akram killed on-site, his 24-year-old son Naveed critically wounded. Police slammed it as a deliberate anti semitic hit on…
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GOA NIGHTCLUB FIRE KILLS AT LEAST 23, MOSTLY STAFF, AFTER GAS BLAST
A devastating midnight blaze tore through a nightclub in Goa’s Arpora town, claiming at least 23 lives mostly employees, after a suspected gas cylinder explosion in the kitchen, turning a vibrant tourist hotspot into tragedy. Local media reported bodies recovered from the site in northern Goa, famous for its beaches and nightlife that draw crowds…
