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...

N70M FRAUD: COURT ADJOURNS NIMG DIRECTOR,BAMALI'S TRIAL TO NOV 12.{PHOTO}.

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    Justice Daniel Longji of the State High Court sitting in Jos, Plateau State, has adjourned a N70million fraud trial involving Engineer Umar Saidu Bamali, Director, Nigeria Institute of Mining and Geosciences, NIMG and his Procurement Officer, Adeniyi Adeosun, to November 12, 2018. 
The adjournment followed the decision of the second defendant, Adeosun, to plead guilty to the charge. 
The defendants allegedly diverted over N70million, money meant for allowances of staff of NIMG and contracts of printing of security and non-security documents. 
Specifically, Bamali, in 2015 allegedly misappropriated the sum of N32million belonging to the Institute, a sum he claimed was used as allowances for staff, while nobody was promoted that year
He was also said to have converted to personal use, over N17million belonging to NIMG, a sum realized by the Institute from the training conducted for Kano Youths, through the State Government. 
On his part, Adeosun was said to have received over N8million as kickbacks to compromise his official duties.
Arraigned on Monday, May 28, 2018, Bamali and Adeosun pleaded not guilty to the 6-count charge of conspiracy, misappropriation of funds and criminal breach of trust preferred against them by the EFCC. 
At the resumed sitting today, July 25, 2018, Adeosun’s counsel, T.J.J. Danjuma, informed the court of his client's intention to opt for plea bargain.“My lord, we have decided to explore the option of plea bargain”, he said.Consequently, the court adjourned for report on the plea bargain.
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