Hit & Run driver Kills LAWMA official In Lagos

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A hit-and-run driver of a jeep knocked down two highway managers of the Lagos State Waste Management Agency on Monday along Iyana Oworo Expressway in the state.
Punch learnt that although the driver managed to escape, the vehicle’s number plate fell in the process and had been handed over to security officials.It was gathered that the driver, who was on top speed, wanted to beat the traffic snarl when he rammed into the victims, identified as Lateefat Sulyman and Fatimoh Ajetunmobi.
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Teenage driver crushes toddler in Lagos

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When three-year-old Ikeoluwa Olaniyi was playing with her friends in her grandfather’s compound in Ire Akari Estate, Isolo, Lagos, on September 3, 2013, little did she know that death was lurking.

PUNCH Metro learnt that a teenage motorist, Chinyere Wagbaranta, in company with her brother, Chisom, and a police corporal attached to Police Mobile Force 22, Felix Adebayo, in a Mercedes Benz Sports Utility Vehicle, drove into the compound carelessly, hitting the little girl and crushing her skull.

The victim’s grandfather, Adesola Elegbede, who spoke to our correspondent while fighting back tears, said Ikeoluwa was his first grandchild.

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Young Shall Grow Motor Boss Attacked In Festac, Driver & escort Killed

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The CEO of The Young Shall Grow Motors, Chief Vincent Obianodo, was attacked by suspected assassins on Tuesday night August 27th on 22 Road in Festac Town, Lagos, killing his driver and police escort. He narrowly escaped death.  The multimillionaire businessman was returning home from work on Tuesday night when an SUV double-crossed his vehicle in a lonely area, and some armed men opened fire on Chief Obianodo's car. His orderly who attempted to fire back was killed, his driver who was trying to escape was also killed while Chief Obianodo was shot in the arm.

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Task force seizes cash-laden bullion van, arrests driver

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The Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and other special offences Enforcement Unit on Tuesday arrested a driver and seized a bullion van for violating the state’s traffic law.

Chairman of the task force, Bayo Sulaiman, said the driver was nabbed while driving against traffic around 12noon on ACME Road in the Ikeja area of the state.

He added that a policeman escorting the van was also apprehended, while the cash-laden vehicle, with registration number PF 4582 SPY, was impounded.

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ABOKI: I Raped just 6 Children - Kano Bank Driver Confesses

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A 50-year-old driver in one of the new generation banks, arrested for allegedly raping a 10-year-old girl, Zainab, who feigned ignorance of the implication of his offence, has told the police at the Kano State Police Command, Bompai police division, that he has successfully had carnal knowledge of five other minors in the past.

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I Raped just 6 Children - Kano Bank Driver Confesses -

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The alleged rapist, Malam Yusif Ibrahim, a resident of Hayye Hotoron Arewa Quarters, Nassarawa local government area, is married, has with 11 children.

Yusif told newsmen that it all started when Zainab, his neighbour’s daughter met him where he was buying a local snack, ‘Awara’ for his little children and she asked him to buy for her too but he only had N20 on him at the time so he promised to buy it for her at another time.

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Completely Drunk Driver Crushes Three To Death In Nasarawa

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A car with registration number, Lagos FST 931 AR, on Saturday along Bukan Sidi in Lafia, Nasarawa State capital, veered off its lane unto pedestrians on the other side of the road, crushing three to death and leaving one critically injured.
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Sector Commander in Nasarawa, Francis Udoma, confirmed that two among the three victims were brothers between the ages of 9 and 16.

Mr. Udoma said the incident happened at about 8:45 p.m. in Bukan-sidi area, along Lafia-Jos road.

He alleged that the driver was under the influence of alcohol and was over speeding before losing control of the car.

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Again!!! Another Nigerian cab driver killed in New York

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Less than two weeks after a Nigeria cab driver was shot dead in Washington DC (if you missed it, read it HERE) another one has been killed...this time in New York.

54 year old Orji Ama Uro from Ekoli Edda, Ebonyi State, was brutally stabbed in the eye with an umbrella after dropping off two people, a man and a woman, in Brooklyn around 5pm on Thursday June 13th. The point of the umbrella pierced Ama Uro's brain, killing him. 

Eye witnesses told police that the man and woman came down from the cab on Thomas S. Boyland St. in Brownsville and immediately started arguing with the cab driver. The man, believed to be in his 20s, then stabbed Uro in the right eye with an umbrella, piercing his brain. Continue After The Break.

Nigerian cab driver shot dead in Washington DC

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57 year old cab driver Solomon James Okoroh (pictured above) was shot dead around 3am yesterday morning Tuesday June 4th in the 2400 block of Ontario Road, Adams Morgan, by two men who tried to rob him while riding in his cab, according to DC police. The murder of Okoroh unfolded right in front of police, who took off after the suspects and chased them down under heavy gunfire.

Police say Solomon Okoroh was murdered around 3:15 a.m. Tuesday after picking up two men in his cab. Officers working a robbery detail in the neighborhood saw the cab in distress and then heard the gunshot before it crashed into a sign and parking meter near Ontario and Kalorama Roads.

The two suspects bailed out and got into a running gun battle with officers. Police caught one of them in the street, but the other tried to hide in a nearby apartment.

Perfect Gentleman: Bus Driver Returns N380,000 Cheque And N49 000 Cash To Owner

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A mini-bus driver, Bisi Oladimeji, 33, on Saturday returned N49,000 cash and a cheque for N380,000 to the owner in Osogbo, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

The owner, Olubunmi Adeleke, a teacher at Our Lady and St. Francis College, Osogbo, forgot a purse containing the items in the bus she boarded from Fakunle area of Osogbo to Aregbe.

The owner of the cheque lives at Agunbelewo area of Osogbo while the cheque was written in her favour from her co-operative society.

Speaking in Osogbo, Mrs. Adeleke said, “I was really devastated when I realised that I have misplaced the purse.

100-year-old driver hits 9 children walking on a sidewalk

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A very old man lost control of his vehicle and hit as many as nine children on a sidewalk outside school.

A 100-year-old man backed up his car back onto the sidewalk and hit 11 people, including nine children, from a primary school in South Los Angeles, California, just after classes had ended on Wednesday, authorities said. Four of the children were in critical condition when firefighters arrived, but were stabilized and were in serious condition at a hospital, fire Capt. Jaime Moore said. Everyone was expected to survive, he said.

The powder blue Cadillac backed slowly toward the group of parents and children who were buying snacks from a sidewalk vendor, and the crowd hit his window and yelled at him to stop, but not before some of the children became trapped under the vehicle, witnesses said. Backpacks of children, shoes, sweets and loose change were strewn about the scene behind a grocery store across from Main Street Elementary.

Driver ra-pès 15year old housemaid ,Blames it on the Devil

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The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested a driver, Olusegun Ajayi, for allegedly raping a 15-year-old housemaid in Arepo, Ogun State.

The NSCDC authorities said the suspect had canal knowledge of the girl which caused her to bleed for two days.

Ajayi, however, told PUNCH Metro that his act was not rap-è since the victim consented. The suspect, who claimed to be a devout Christian, said he did not know the victim prior to the incident.

Fashola Denies Assaulting Morka’s Driver, Children In Traffic Incidence

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The Lagos State Government has denied reports alleging that Governor Babatunde Fashola ordered his police escorts to manhandle the driver and children of the Executive Director of the Social and Economic Rights Action Centre (SERAC) Felix Morka, during a traffic incident on Tuesday.

In a statement, the government spokesman, Hakeem Bello said “the premise and the content of the message are completely false.”

Explaining what transpired on that day, the statement said “On the aforementioned date, at around 3pm, the Governor was returning from a Security meeting at the headquarters of the State Security Service (SSS) through CMD Road in the Magodo area when his convoy and other road users got blocked by a man who had driven his Jeep with Registration number KU 549 KJA against the flow of traffic. The identity of the owner was later established to be Felix Morka.

Touching: Woman killed after saving husband from being hit by drunk driver

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She gave her life so that her husband might live. Out for their regular Sunday morning stroll in Wissinoming, Pa., Teresa and Albert Marquard were suddenly staring down death.  A suspected drunk driver had lost control of his minivan and had suddenly swerved over the curb, and came speeding right at that couple.  Teresa, 58, had just enough time to push her husband of 42 years out of the way of the oncoming vehicle, but was struck and killed.

 “She pushed my dad out of the way,” Denise Hirschman, one of the Marquards’ daughters told Action News. “She saved my dad. That was what she cared about. She cared about us more than anything.” Albert Marquard was unharmed in the incident, while the driver of the minivan, identified as 33-year-old Eric Luciano, remains in critical condition at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Police say Luciano was drunk at the time of the accident.

 Jimmy Berry, one of the Marquards’ neighbors, said he was not surprised to learn of Teresa’s selfless actions.

EYE WITNESS: CRAZY BUS DRIVER BURNS HIS OWN BUS IN LAGOS (LOOK)

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The fuel of the bus finished on the main road and the commercial bus driver rushed to the filling station to buy fuel. When he got back, he met some LASTMA officer at the scene and they were trying to tow the bus and he explained to them but they didn't listen to him. The this point the commercial bus driver was vexed and he decided to set the bus ablaze. It may sound abnormal but that's the truth of the story.

Why I operate a taxi — Abuja female driver

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Curiosity. That was the main reason for choosing to ride in Ms. Aisha Umar’s taxi in the Federal Capital Territory on Friday .

Ms Aisha Umar has been a taxi driver in Abuja for over five years. Her handling of the vehicle is professional. She calls out for passengers and attends to matters relating to her job cheerfully and promptly too. She is never shy; and almost every day, she has had to answer questions, especially from many inquisitive male passengers. That, she does, courteously.

According to her, taxi business was the last thing on her mind when she dropped out of the university over 10 years ago.

Court Orders Taxi Driver To Pay Housewife N55,000

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An Abuja Area Court sitting in Lugbe has ordered a 28-year-old driver, Stanley Oliver of Lugbe Zone 7, to pay N55,000 to a housewife, Mrs. Habiba Timothy. Delivering judgment in the case, the Judge, Haruna Masanawa, said the court passed judgment in favour of the plaintiff after hearing both sides of the matter. Masanawa ordered Oliver to pay the plaintiff in two installments, the first of which must be on or before February 28, and the second payment must be settled by March 31.

He also granted the plaintiff’s prayer for N5,000 cost of action against the defendant and ordered the defendant to pay the cost of action on the same day with the payment of the first installment.

6 killed, 25 injured as driver tries to avoid potholes

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Bindawa (Katsina State) -  No fewer than six persons perished while 25 others were injured in a ghastly motor accident in Bindawa local government area of Katsina State on Sunday.

An eyewitness told a correpondent who visited the scene that the accident occurred at about 2 p.m. when a truck with registration number BRE 06 XN crashed along Bindawa-Charanchi road.

According to the eyewitness, the accident happened when the driver of the lorry carrying 40 passengers and 15 cows from Baure town to Charanchi market in Charanchi local government area of the state, lost control.

Driver killed by LASTMAmen Planned New Year party

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A commercial driver, Mr. Isaac Popoola, who was allegedly beaten to death on Monday by two officials of the Lagos State Transportation Management Authority, had before his brutal killing, started preparing for the Yuletide celebration. The deceased’s son, Ibukunoluwa, told our correspondent, at the family residence in Akowonjo, Egbeda area of the state on Tuesday that his father had fixed January 2, 2013 for the celebration.

Video Of Luckiest Driver In The world

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