S. A: FOUR PEOPLE HAVE DIED AFTER A CAR WAS SWEPT AWAY AT AN OVERFLOWING BRIDGE IN THE MAKOTOPONG RIVER NEAR SEBAYENG.(PHOTO).
Four people have died after a car was swept away at an overflowing bridge in the Makotopong River near Sebayeng. Police recovered the bodies after a blue Renault Kwid carrying five occupants was pulled into the river during heavy water flow on Sunday morning, 8 March 2026. One passenger escaped from the vehicle and alerted police and emergency services. Police say the car was travelling along the Madiga–Makotopong gravel road when it overturned at the flooded bridge and was dragged into the river. The Provincial Search and Rescue team recovered the first body on Sunday. The victim was identified as Lebapa Petrus Mochitele, 27, from Madiga Village. EMS personnel declared him dead at the scene. Search operations resumed on Monday with the SAPS Water Wing Unit, EMS Search and Rescue, the Fire and Rescue Department, and an EMS helicopter. Teams located the submerged vehicle and recovered three more bodies. The victims were identified as Seobi Dikgale, 33, Betty Makokoane, 22, and Shel...
Wife of the Lagos State Governor,Mrs Bolanle Ambode who spoke yesterday saturday at the 2015 Arise Women Conference which was held at the City of David Parish of Redeemed Christian Church of God {RCCG},Victoria Island in Lagos,said it is important for women to teach their children virtues of honesty,morality,hard work and good character.Women according to Mrs Ambode,occupy a sensitive and strategic place in the life of any nation,and so,it is important for them to inculcate right virtues in their children beginning from the home front.She said the family mirrors the society and that explains why nations all over the would largely reflect the quality of respective families that make up the country.''As Women and managers of the home front,all eyes are on us,to take good care of our husbands and bring up our children in the fear of God.We must teach them the virtures of honesty,morality,hard work and good character.This is for them to grow up to become productive and God fearing citizens,for the good of our society''.The wife of the Vice President of Nigeria Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo said that though poverty remains a challenge arising from unemployment and under employment,women must open their eyes and grab emerging opportunities for more prosperous and meaningful living.Mrs Osinbajo who said the vision of her present status came ten years ago,advocated the need for women and indeed everyone to be serious and committed to the things of God.She also used the occasion to remember those in the Internally Displaced Persons {IDPs} camps across the country,and women selling their children because of poverty,and prayed for God's intervention..The Women Arise Conference which started seven years ago is a platform to bring wealthy people to help the poor ad show women how to live.The women behind the conference use the platform to carry out humanitarian activities such as free skill acquisition for young women,free health care delivery and advocacy,renovation of schools and establishment of schools among others.More photos below. 
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