18 Passengers Killed on Benin-Ore Expressway

FRSC Officers

Eighteen persons were killed Monday in a ghastly road accident involving a truck and a Peace Mass Transit commercial bus at Okada along the Benin-Ore-Lagos Expressway. The truck said to have been loaded with gravel reportedly lost one of its tyres and collided with the bus said to be travelling from Onitsha to Lagos.

The impact of the collision caused fuel to spill resulting in fire outbreak, which burnt the passengers beyond recognition. However, two persons were said to have been rescued from the truck by a combined team of Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) officials, policemen and sympathisers who had a hectic time removing the charred bodies from the bus.

First Lady’s Mother Killed in Road Crash

Mrs. Patience Jonathan

The ‘mother’ of First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has died in a road accident at Elele, Rivers State, on her way to Bayelsa State. Although details of the crash were still sketchy as at press time, the remains of the woman, popularly called Sisi, was deposited at Kpaima Mortuary, at Elechi Beach, Diobu, Port Harcourt. The first lady was said to have adopted Sisi as a mother since she lost hers at an early age.