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Kiss Daniel, Producer Involved In Auto Crash

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Nigerian artiste, Oluwatobiloba Daniel, popularly known as Kiss Daniel was on Monday night involved in a car accident in Lagos state.

 

According to the singer, he was driving and at same time, operating his phone when he crashed into a canal at the Lekki area of the state but was fortunately rescued by friends.

 

Disclosing this on his Instagram page @iamkissdaniel, theWoju crooner advised people not to operate their mobile phones while driving.
He wrote, “Don’t press your phone while driving; it is never a good idea.

 

“Crashed into a canal last night at Lekki. All thanks to these guys and some loyal fans that helped I and my producer out of the car,” Kiss partly penned down.

Diplomats’ Vehicle In Auto Crash In Abuja, 4 Injured

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Four diplomatic corps officers from the Ethiopian Embassy were on Monday involved in an accident on Independence Avenue in the Central Business District in Abuja.

The accident which occurred at about 2p.m. left the occupants of the diplomatic hilux vehicle with registration number 43 CD 01 corps diplomatique, badly injured.

An eye witness, who pleaded anonymity, told NAN that the vehicle hit a billboard and somersaulted when the driver could not control the vehicle.

“I saw the vehicle and heard the noise when the driver was trying to apply the brake but he failed to control the vehicle.

“I think the driver slept off or lost control and collided with a billboard, pulling it down and making the vehicle to somersault.

“We pulled them out from the vehicle and they were badly injured.

“The police had rushed them to the hospital,’’ the eye witness said.

A Traffic Officer, Mr Joseph Plangshak, blamed the accident on speeding and brake failure.

According to him, the victims have been taken to the National Hospital for treatment.

“My colleagues have taken the victims to the National Hospital, Abuja for treatment.

“We were called to come and access the situation and evacuate the vehicle to ensure flow of traffic along the busy road,’’ he said.

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Auto crash: Akpabio flown abroad for treatment

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Former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio, was on Tuesday afternoon flown out of Nigeria to receive medical treatment abroad in company of about five of his aides.

Akpabio arrived at the local wing of the General Aviation Terminal, of the airport with his team around 12.40pm. He thereafter left the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja aboard a regular private jet that he usually travels with.

It was learnt that the former governor was conveyed to his aircraft by a tarmac bus and was fit physically when sighted at the airport.

“The flight conveying him on the trip taxied to the international terminal from where it took off. The former governor travelled with his own private flight and had about five persons who accompanied him on the trip. He looked physically okay, although some of the men with him said he might receive medical attention abroad due to the car crash he was involved in on Monday,” an official of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria said.

Akpabio, who is currently the Minority Leader of the Senate, was involved in a car accident near Bolingo Hotel in Abuja on his way to the airport to catch an international flight in Abuja on Monday. His car ran into a convoy of some United State’s embassy officials while trying to beat the traffic light.

It was learnt that the occupants of the vehicles in the convoy of the US embassy and Akpabio’s driver did not sustain any injury but the senator suffered some injuries in the chest region.

The Head, Media Relations and Strategy, Federal Road Safety Corps, Bisi Kazeem, said seven adult males were involved in the crash, adding that three of them including Akpabio sustained injuries and were taken to the hospital.

38 Swazi virgins going for reed dance die in tragic crash

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Not less than 38 girls and young women were killed in a crash on Friday while travelling to Swaziland’s most famous traditional festival.

 

Trucks transporting scores of young women to the traditional Umhlanga Reed Dance collided on Friday near the town of Matsapha on Swaziland’s major highway, the Times of Swaziland reported.

 

The young women and girls were travelling on the back of an open truck, the rights group said.

 

“According to inside sources, a total of 38 young girls have been pronounced dead, with more than 20 others seriously injured,” said Lucky Lukhele, spokesperson for the Swaziland Solidarity Network, an advocacy group based in neighbouring South Africa.

 

Swazi police at first refused to give any information on the accident but later disputed the death toll provided by the rights group. Only 13 people were killed in the crash, said police spokesman Khulani Mamba.

 

Cellphone images taken of the crash show the bloodied bodies of young women lying on the back of a flatbed truck.

 

The girls and young women were on their way to the Swazi king’s royal residence for the annual reed dance.

 

About 40,000 young women participate in the eight-day reed dance ceremony in which they sing and dance, usually bare-breasted, as they bring reeds to reinforce the windbreak around the royal residence. During the reed dance, the king often selects one of the young women to become one of his wives. Swaziland is polygamous and the king has more than a dozen wives.

 

“We all have heard about the dark cloud that has befallen the ‘imbali,'” said King Mswati III, using the Swati language word for flower, used to refer to the groups of women dancers.

 

Speaking Saturday at the opening of an international trade fair in Swaziland’s economic center Manzini, the king promised that the affected families would be compensated. He added that an investigation into the accident was underway.

5 Burnt In Auto-Crash On Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

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Five persons ?were? burnt beyond recognition Wednesday night? during a head-on-collision between two trailers along Mowe/Ibafo axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway?. The accident occurred few kilometres away from the popular Danco filling station along the axis in the Obafemi Owode local government area of Ogun State.

A trailer had reportedly broken down by the roadside, leading to serious traffic congestion along the axis. A tanker loaded with petrol drove against the traffic enroute Sagamu, its driver trying to maneuver his way through the traffic jam around the area.

The tanker eventually collided with another trailer laden with granite enroute Lagos from Abeokuta. The resulting inferno led to the death of five people ?believed to be occupants of the trailers. Th?e? Public Relation Officer of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Babatunde Akinbiyi, when contacted on phone confirmed the incident.

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