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...

GROUP CONDEMNS 'SALE' OF TIV TRADITIONAL TITTLES TO WIKE, TAMBUWAL.{PHOTO}.

 

A group, Tiv Rebirth Network, has condemned the alleged arrangement by their paramount monarch, the Tor Tiv, James Ayatse, to sell traditional tittles to the “highest bidders”, including Governors Nyesom Wike of Rivers and Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State.
The socio-cultural group stated this in a press release issued at the end of a meeting in Gboko town, Benue State.
Dr. Dondo Edward Tizah, Chairman of the communique drafting committee and Mr. Ade Tombuwua, Secretary stated this in a press release signed and issued on behalf of 56 others.
The release read in parts that: “Plans have been completed to confere the tittle of Nyamkyume Tiv on Benue State Governor, Dr. Samuel Ortom alongside, Wike and Tambuwal”.
In this vein, the group also accused the Tor Tiv of “embarking on a mission to honour members of the PDP (the party’s platform he contested senatorial seat in 2007) with Tiv traditional tittles.
The release also indicated that the group has appealed to the Tiv Traditional Council with a view to prevailing “on its Chairman, the Tor Tiv to follow the path of honour and unity by shunning skewed counsels that will further exacerbate divisions and tension in Tiv land”.
Besides, the Tiv Rebirth Network, noted that the ongoing militia killings in the area “should have have moved the Tor Tiv to engineer a process if seeking a genuine solution to the killings. But to our surprise His Royal Majesty has been very quiet about this while lives are lost on a daily basis”.
In any case the group expressed the believe that “our paramount ruler knows the implications of the vicious division amongst the Tiv elite”, adding that the scenario will rob the state at large of “several benefits”.

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