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No fewer than fourteen persons were killed on Wednesday in an accident involving an articulated truck and a commercial bus along the Obajana-Lokoja Road in Kogi State.
A statement from the state commissioner for Information and Communication, Kingsley Fanwo, said the state government sympathised with the families of the victims.
The commissioner explained that preliminary reports showed that the accident involved a bus and a truck conveying cement from Obajana.
Men of the Federal Road Safety Corps have been alerted and bodies of the deceased have been evacuated from the scene of the accident.
By Kola Adeyemi
Lokoja, Jan. 6, 2021 Fourteen people on Wednesday lost their lives in a ghastly motor accident which occurred on Lokoja- Kabba road in Kogi.
The state Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Solomon Aghure, who confirmed this to newsmen in Lokoja said that three vehicles were involved in the accident.
Aghure listed them to include a DAF truck with number plate Gombe GME 44 ZU, Honda Accord with registration number Abuja GWA173KH and a white Toyota Hiace passenger bus with registration number Kano KTV378XF.
The sector commander, who said that the accident happened around 12:50 p.m at Apata community, explained that it involved 26 passengers made up of nine male, 13 females and four children.
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JESUSEGUN ALAGBE
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Findings by our correspondents across the states showed that many citizens deserted facilities like amusement parks, beaches and others, in compliance with the ban on public gatherings placed by the federal and various state governments amid a deadly second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021: FRSC promises aggressive enforcement of traffic regulations
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The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, says the Corps will embark on aggressive enforcement of traffic regulations in 2021 and beyond.
This is contained in a statement by the Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO), Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM) Bisi Kazeem, and issued to newsmen on Sunday in Abuja.
According to Oyeyemi, this is the sequel to the mass return movements of road users from the end of the year activities, coupled with the review of the operational activities by the FRSC, as part of the end of year special patrol into 2021.