TEAM LAGOS EMERGES TOP AT 23RD NATIONAL SPORTS FESTIVAL SOUTH WEST ELIMINATION. (PHOTOS). #PRESS RELEASE.

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 TEAM LAGOS EMERGES TOP AT 23RD NATIONAL SPORTS FESTIVAL SOUTH WEST ELIMINATION Lagos State athletes proved their dominance in the South West by edging out regional competitors and emerging top in the five team events contested at the elimination series qualifier for the 23rd National Sports Festival later this year in Enugu. The elimination series featured team events in volleyball, basketball, football, beach volleyball, and cricket in male and female categories. While the team clinched only the female football ticket by topping their group, they showed dominance in three other sports by winning both the male and female tickets. Team Lagos took first position in the volleyball male and female categories. The male team defeated their counterparts from Ondo in the finals by 25-18, 24-26, 25-20, and 25-20, while the female team defeated Team Oyo by 25-18, 22-25, 28-26, 16-25, and 15-8. The Osun basketball team fell to the superior firepower of the Team Lagos male team in their last ...

ROAD ACCIDENT CLAIMS 16 LIVES IN KOGI STATE . (PHOTO).


 Road accident claims 16 lives in Kogi State 


Sixteen people have been confirmed dead following a fatal  road mishap along Lokoja-Okene highway in Kogi State.


Confirming the fatal  accident in Lokoja, the Kogi State Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps Lawal Fagge in a telephone conversation explains that the accident occured at Aku village near Osara, along Lokoja-Okene highway at about 9. 20 am this Friday morning.


It involved a Toyota Hiace bus with registration number BUU 17 ZD, travelling from Jos Plateu State to Lagos.with 22 passengers comprising of 21 male and one female in the ill fated bus.

The crash which was blamed on fatigue, saw the vehicle on top speed veered off the road, plunging under the bridge, killing 16 occupants including 15 male and the only female in the bus


Officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Kogi State Command  immediately responded to a distress call, rescuing 6 persons with various degrees of injuries.


The Command says, the injured have been rushed to a nearby health centers in Osara and Specialist Hospital Lokoja for proper medical examination while the dead bodies have been deposited at Ankuri  mortuary, Lokoja 


The command urges road users to be safety conscious and obey traffic rules and regulations while on transit.

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