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The involved tanker came from Kano and had driven around 110 kilometers on its way to Yobe State on 15 October. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] While traveling on an expressway near the town of Majiya in Jigawa State , the tanker overturned while attempting to avoid crashing into a truck, causing petrol to spill onto the road.
29 May – Nigeria readopts Nigeria, We Hail Thee, which was the country's national anthem from 1960 to 1978, as its national anthem, replacing Arise, O Compatriots. [20] 30 May – 2024 Aba killings: Eleven people, including five soldiers, are killed in an attack on a military checkpoint by unknown gunmen in Aba, Abia State. [21]
At around 7:45 pm, hundreds of passengers travelling northwards on their way to Nigeria's northwest were kidnapped in Katari, [4] Kaduna State, while others were killed and injured by bandits who bombed an Abuja-Kaduna train.
The Ogbaru boat disaster, also called the Ogbaru boat mishap or Anambra boat mishap, was the accidental sinking of a boat on the Niger River in Nigeria on 7 October 2022, causing 76 deaths. [2] It took place during the 2022 Nigeria floods .
Dana Air Flight 0992 was a scheduled Nigerian domestic passenger flight from Abuja to Lagos, Nigeria.On 3 June 2012, the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 aircraft serving the route suffered a dual-engine failure during its approach to Lagos.
The accident that broke 10-year-old Princess Igbinosa's right leg could have crushed her dreams of becoming a model in a country where not many can afford prosthetics to cope with life and fight ...
On the evening of 21 May 2021, a Nigerian Air Force Beechcraft King Air 350i with Ibrahim Attahiru and ten other occupants were on a visit to the northern state of Kaduna to attend a Nigerian Army recruit passing out parade the following day. [2]
Bellview Airlines Flight 210 was a scheduled Nigerian domestic passenger flight of a Boeing 737-200 airliner from Lagos to Abuja, operated by Lagos-based Bellview Airlines.On 22 October 2005, the aircraft nose-dived and crashed at high speed into the earth just a few minutes after takeoff, killing all 117 people on board.