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15-year-old JSS1 student electrocuted in Benue On By Peter Duru, Makurdi A 15-year-old student of Benue State University Technical College, Emmanuel Ameh has been electrocuted in the Achussa community of Makurdi the Benue state capital. The JSS1 student reportedly met his untimely death owing to the alleged negligence of the staff of Jos Electricity Distribution Company, JED, in Makurdi. Narrating the incident to newsmen on Thursday, uncle to the diseased, Mr Samuel Olokpo, said the victim who until his death lived with his grandmother, Mr Veronica Odoh at Baver Dzeremo street was killed whi...

By Peter Duru, Makurdi Barely 48 hours after a truck laden with petrol exploded at Oshigbudu in Agatu Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue state which claimed 12 lives and razed about 100 houses, cars and motorcycles, another petrol laden tanker early Tuesday exploded in the same community. Though no casualty was recorded in the second incident, several houses were reportedly destroyed in the explosion. The Agatu Counsel Secretary, Sunday Oteyi and indigene of Oshigbudu who confirmed the accident, said it occurred at about 4am some metres away from where the earlier explosion took place. He e...

‘No criminal or terrorist is bigger than Nigeria’ …Agitation for separation never this loud in previous administrations, PFN tells Presidency …Secessionist groups only asking Buhari to change his ways of governance – MBF …Change tactics, Ohanaeze tells Presidency …History won’t be kind to present govt, if…. – CAN By Anayo Okoli, Ola Ajayi, Peter Duru, Omeiza Ajayi & Luminous Jannamike The Presidency yesterday reacted to the growing wave of secessionist agitations in some parts of the country, stating that President Muhammadu Buhari can neither be intimidated nor bullied in...

Again, petrol tanker explodes in Benue, houses razed On By Peter Duru, Makurdi Barely 48 hours after a truck laden with petrol exploded at Oshigbudu in Agatu Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue state which claimed 12 lives and razed about 100 houses, cars and motorcycles, another petrol laden tanker early Tuesday exploded in the same community. Though no casualty was recorded in the second incident, several houses were reportedly destroyed in the explosion. The Agatu Counsel Secretary, Sunday Oteyi and indigene of Oshigbudu who confirmed the accident, said it occurred at about 4 am some met...

Scores killed, over 100 houses razed in Benue petrol tanker explosion On By Peter Duru NO fewer than 100 houses were razed, scores killed and many declared missing, yesterday,  when a tanker conveying petroleum product exploded at Oshigbudu in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State. A source in the area told Vanguard that the tanker laden with petrol was travelling from Oweto and heading towards Otukpo when the driver lost control of the truck and it fell, spilling its content at the Oshigbudu/Obagaji junction. According to him, “the whole thing happened suddenly and when the truck fe...