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NYSC Member Drowns In Boat Mishap

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A National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member is believed to have drowned in a boat accident on Thursday in Okpotuwari Community, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa.

Sources in the community told the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday that the corps member, who hailed from Anambra drowned when the canoe he boarded capsized.

Tontiemote Yeiyei, a resident, said the deceased, who was serving at Okpotuwari Community, had gone to Ondewari with two of his friends across the Osiana creek by a hand paddled canoe.

Mr. Yeiyei said the ill-fated canoe encountered rough currents at the jetty as the deceased and the others were returning to Okpotuwari.

He said that following the boat accident, sympathisers quickly raised a search party, during which the two others were rescued alive.

“The rescue team searched for the remains of the drowned corps member to no avail, and local divers later joined them but they are yet to find the body. Hopefully it will be afloat by Saturday.

“The survivors have been stabilised and are being taken care of at a clinic,” Yeiyei said.

Marine police sources in Southern Ijaw said that the incident was yet to be reported.

Credit: NAN

Assistant Commissioner Of Police Drowns During Valentine Party

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An Assistant Commissioner of Police, who was also in charge of the Area K, Morogbo, of the Lagos State Police Command, Osung Ekpo, has drowned in a hotel on Valentine’s Day in the Ajah area of the state.

 

It was learnt that Ekpo died at about 5pm on Sunday while swimming in the hotel’s swimming pool.

 

It was gathered that Ekpo was in company with friends on Sunday and had decided to relax in the swimming pool before he drowned.

He was said to have been rescued from the pool by policemen and hotel workers, who rushed him to a nearby hospital. But he reportedly died a few minutes after, and was pronounced dead by the doctor on duty.

 

According to witnesses, Ekpo’s corpse has been moved to a morgue while investigations to confirm the cause of his death were ongoing.

 

The Police Public Relations Officer, Dolapo Badmus, confirmed the death, adding that investigations are ongoing.

 

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Lake Chad Consumes Fleeing Boko Haram Insurgents

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Report provides that a large number of terrorists have drowned in the Lake Chad as they fled the heavy bombardment by Nigerian Air force heralding the advance of Nigerian troops on mission to flush them out of Baga, the Nigerian defence headquarters has said.

“Not even the strategy of mining over 1500 spots with land mines on the routes leading to the town could save the terrorists from the aggressive move of advancing troops,” the Director of Defence Information, Chris Olukolade, a Major General, said in a statement.

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