Category: Disaster
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TRAGIC HIGHWAY HORROR: DANGOTE TRUCK SMASHES COUNCIL CAR, KILLS FIVE INCLUDING KIDS
Picture a busy Kogi highway turning deadly in seconds—Dangote Cement truck slams head-on into a local government Toyota, claiming five lives on the spot, including three innocent children. Heartbreak doesn’t get more raw. The crash hit around 11:40 a.m. Tuesday at Gidan Bassa on Lokoja-Ajaokuta road, involving a Sino truck (BBR 719 SA) and Toyota…
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SUDAN’S KORDOFAN KILLING FIELDS: UN SOUNDS ALARM ON CIVILIAN SLAUGHTER
Imagine drone strikes pounding hunger-ravaged North Darfur right before Sudan’s war hits its 1,000th bloody day—now the UN’s begging for a ceasefire as thousands flee escalating horrors in Kordofan. OCHA warns rival armies—Sudan’s military vs Rapid Support Forces—have partitioned the nation since April 2023, triggering over 12 million displacements, the world’s largest crisis, with fresh…
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NIGER STATE MASSACRES: UN DEMANDS SCHOOLS SAFE FROM SLAUGHTER
Heartbreaking scenes in Niger State—over 30 slaughtered at a village market, homes torched, kids snatched—now the UN’s screaming for shields around civilians and classrooms before it’s too late. UN Resident Coordinator Mohamed Fall slammed the January 3 bloodbath in Kasuwan Daji, Borgu LGA, plus fresh horrors in Agwara, Kwara, and Ondo, calling them blatant human…
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LAGOS ISLAND BLAZE HEARTBREAK: FAMILY MOURNS VICTIMS, URGES BUILDING PROBE
Christmas inferno still smolders, Sunmonu Animashaun Family shared deep grief Sunday over the Dec 24 fire that ignited at Shitta-Bey Court (Great Nigeria House), torched their Agbole house, five family buildings, and razed Shitta-Bey Mosque across the road. Firefighters demolished parts of the family house to halt spread and vent smoke—now structurally dicey, unsafe for…
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YOBE BOAT DISASTER: DEATH TOLL HITS 29, SEARCH FOR MISSING ONGOING
Saturday’s nightmare on Yobe River just got deadlier toll jumps from 25 to 29 as four more bodies surface from the Nguru LGA wreck. Rescue ops grind on for 8-10 still missing. YOSEMA boss Dr Mohammad Goje dropped the grim update Monday from Damaturu: 13 injured folks treated and home. Overloaded canoe from Jigawa’s Adiyani…
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LAGOS ISLAND FIRE DEVASTATION: FAMILY MOURNS, URGES BUILDING CHECKS
Christmas Eve turned nightmare on Lagos Island—a raging fire torched Shitta-Bey Court, spread to family homes and mosque, leaving heartbreak in its wake. Now, the Sunmonu Animashaun Family’s calling for urgent safety scans. Joint statement from Acting Chair Rafiu Jawando and Sec. Otunba Hakeem Oladipo Animashaun: Blaze hit Dec. 24, 2025, gutting five family buildings,…
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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…
