S. A: FOUR PEOPLE HAVE DIED AFTER A CAR WAS SWEPT AWAY AT AN OVERFLOWING BRIDGE IN THE MAKOTOPONG RIVER NEAR SEBAYENG.(PHOTO).

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 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...

SOME JAMB CANDIDATES,PROTESTED & THREW STONES TODAY AT THE LAGOS ASSEMBLY

                       Some students who wrote the last Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination {UTME},stormed the Lagos State House of Assembly today tuesday to protest the alleged maltreatment by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board {JAMB} in the examination.These angry youths threw stones at the security gate and the personnel manning the gate in the Assembly to vent their anger after waiting for hours without being attended to by the lawmakers.Some of the students,who were angered by the failure of the speaker or any lawmaker in the Assembly to attend to them in time were molested and arrested by members of the Rapid Response Squad {RRS},who had been mobilised to prevent them from entering the Assembly premises.The students sang solidarity songs to register their anger with the authority of JAMB and the Assembly.The over 200 candidates,who wrote this year's Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination called for the removal of Prof. Dibu Ojerinde,Director of Joint Admission Matriculation Board {JAMB} over the alleged mismanagement of UTME examination during the protest to the Assembly.One of the affected candidates,Okelola Samson said that he read rigorously for the examination,but that JAMB gave him 170 marks which was against his expectation.According to him,for the past two weeks,JAMB has been sending results that was not in tandem with our expectations.We expect good result but we were disappointed at the management with the series of marks they were sending to our phones.One more photo below.                                                                                                                                            

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