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Avoidable calamities: Blame game mounts as bloody highways claim 2,233 Nigerians in four months The Punch Published 12 July 2021 ADELANI ADEPEGBA writes on the factors responsible for the rising road crashes in the country with the attendant loss of lives last Thursday, some military trucks ferrying troops on reinforcement to Damaturu, Yobe State, in response to a Boko Haram attack on a village, crashed in a screech of grinding metal and steel when one of the vehicles lost control and hit a boulder by the roadside. Before the incident, a video had shown the convoy driving at t...

HIGHWAYS OF DEATH: 41,257 killed in road accidents in 97 months On …How 204 persons were crushed in January 2021 By Clifford Ndujihe THEY had been at home for 10 months on account of the closure of schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They eagerly returned to school mid last month and were set to write their final examinations, graduate and join in the efforts to develop their father land. This will no longer be for Samuel Adesomoju Tobi, a final year law student and Oluwasemire Ojinni, a final year Business Administration student of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba, Ondo State. Th...

Bloody January: Nigeria loses 120 to violence, COVID-19, others in 7 days On By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor AFTER surviving COVID-19 pandemic and other socio-economic challenges of 2020, death is the furtherest thing on the minds of most people who crossed over to 2021. On December 31 of every year, many people troop to religious and prayer houses where they thank God for the ending year and supplicate for better tidings – good health, long life, prosperity and other favours in the new year. Many people outline a litany of lofty goals they want to actualise in the coming year. They t...