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...

POLICE PARADES SUSPECTED POLITICAL THUGS,ARMED ROBBERS,OTHERS IN LAFIA.(PHOTO).



Police Parades Suspected Political Thugs, Armed Robbers, Others In Lafia 
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The Nasarawa State Police Command, Friday, paraded two suspects over attempt to commit culpable homicide in Toto local government area of the state.

According to the police, the suspects were armed with dangerous weapons and were sighted trying to kill one Ali Misalam of Toto LGA. 

The command's Spokesperson, DSP Ramhan Nansel, made this known while parading the suspects in Lafia, the state capital. 

Nansel said that upon arrest, the police recovered one locally made gun, one pistol, and two live cartridges from the suspects.

The police spokesman disclosed that the suspects admitted to conspiring to kill the victim because he initiated their mother into witchcraft. 

Similarly, the police command also paraded 19 others for political thuggery and armed robbery offenses.

The police recovered firearms from some of the suspects, including two English pump action guns, nine locally fabricated guns, and twenty live cartridges. 

The suspects were intercepted in a Toyota pickup vehicle and a Toyota Siena bus loaded with suspected political thugs from FCT, Nasarawa, and Imo states.

The police also arrested two suspected armed robbers who had been on the wanted list for various offenses. 

The suspects confessed to carrying out many armed robbery operations within Masaka and environs, and one locally fabricated Berretta pistol was recovered from them as exhibit.

The Commissioner of Police, CP Maiyaki Muhammed Baba, reiterated the Command’s commitment to decisively deal with any attempt by any person or group to cause any security breach leading to the breakdown of law and order in the state.

The suspects will be charged to court after further investigation.


 

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