The police in the Volta Region last Tuesday (May 13) intercepted a petrol tanker travelling from Madina in Accra to Jasikan, which was loaded with cocoa beans and not fuel. It was believed the cocoa beans were meant for smuggling into neighbouring Togo. The vehicle with registration number, GN 3801-13, has been impounded, while the […]
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Forty-eight killed in Nigeria fuel tanker crash
At least 48 people have been killed in the central Nigerian state of Niger, after a fuel tanker collided with a lorry carrying passengers and cattle, the country’s disaster agency said. The Niger State Emergency Management Agency said the collision happened at about 00:30 local time (01:30 GMT) on Sunday, and caused an explosion which […]