Saturday, 1 September 2012

29 dead, 16 injured in Yobe auto crash

September 1

Twenty-nine people were killed and 16 injured in an auto crash that occurred on Friday on the Potiskum-Kano Road, at Daniski Village, Nengere Local Government Area of Yobe State. Eleven of the victims...

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Scores dead in Arepo oil pipeline vandalisation fire

September 1

Scores of pipeline vandals and others scooping petroleum products from the vandalised pipeline were burnt to death in Arepo, a village off the Lagos Ibadan expressway, when the highly inflamable product...

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52 people dead after torrential rains flood Niger

September 1

Emergency officials in Niger say that 52 people have died after heavy rains caused rivers to overflow and buildings to crumble. Col. Mahamane Laminou Moussa, the director general of the country's...

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8 dead after canoe capsizes outside Guinea capital

September 1

Survivors say at least eight people have died and another 30 are missing after a canoe overloaded with merchandise capsized in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Conakry, the capital of Guinea. Ibrahima...

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