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...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today monday October 10,2016,arraigned one Johnson Babatola before Justice Taiwo O. Taiwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti,State,on a 7 count charge bordering on Advance fee fraud and operation of illegal Polytechnic.He however pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to him.Babatola,a former Principal Manager of the Central Bank of Nigeria,Ado-Ekiti branch was arrested following a petition from the National Board for Technical Education,Kaduna,alleging that he was operating an illegal Polytechnic named Teedek Polytechnic at Ilogbo,Ekiti State and extorting gullible students who are not aware of the status of the institution.
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