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...

FORMER CHIEF ACCOUNTANT OF BAUCHI PILGRIMS BOARD BAG 7 YEARS FOR N73.7M FRAUD.(PHOTO).#PRESS RELEASE.


Former Chief Accountant of Bauchi Pilgrims Board Bag 7 Years for N73.7m Fraud

A former chief accountant of Bauchi State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, Kawu Chindo and a support staff from the State Accountant General’s office, Ali Baba, were on February 16, 2022, sentenced seven years, three months imprisonment by Justice Mu'azu Abubakar of the High Court of Bauchi State on a five count charge of conspiracy and obtaining by false pretences brought against them by the Gombe Zonal Command of EFCC.

The duo were accused by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development of issuing fake tellers and receipts as evidence of payment to intending pilgrims to the 2019 Hajj. They were further accused of not remitting the total sum of N73, 715,286.62 (Seventy Three Million, Seven Hundred and Fifteen Thousand, Two Hundred and Eighty Six Naira, Sixty Two Kobo) into the board's account. 
 

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