The spokesperson for the Ogun State Police Command, Omolola Odutola, who disclosed this in a statement she made available to newsmen in Abeokuta on Saturday, noted that the accident occurred at about 3:30 pm on Friday.
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According to reports, the accident involved a heavily loaded articulated vehicle heading toward Abuja, which lost control and rammed into a tricycle (commonly known as Keke NAPEP) carrying passengers toward the main town.
For the NAF, the Director, Public Relations and Information, NAF, Air Commodore Olusola Akinboyewa, confirmed the accident.
Voi sub-county police commander Dasala Ibrahim reported the accident at Voi along the Nairobi-Mombasa highway.
The Federal Road Safety Corps has said that a road traffic crash, which occurred on Saturday, claimed five lives and injured one on Onitsha-Ogidi-Abatete Old Road, Eke-Agu market area of Anambra State.
President Buhari in a statement signed by his Media, Garba Shehu joined fellow countrymen in praying for the repose of the deceased aides of the former President, urging their families to see their demise as a sacrifice for the nation.
Mr Utte Boyi, the Sector Commander, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Yola.
Abdullahi, who made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Bauchi, said that the accident which occurred at about 2:30 p.m. also left 12 others with serious injuries.
Joel Dagwa, the state’s FRSC Commander, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna on Sunday that 19 other persons got varying degrees of injury.
Ahmed Hassan, the State Sector Commander of FRSC who confirmed the story to the News Agency of Nigeria in Akure, said that the accident involved two vehicles.
Seven others also sustained varying degrees of injuries in the accident that involved a petrol laden truck, three cars, four tricycles, a bus and two motorcycles.
Senator Nicholas Tofowomo, representing Ondo South Senatorial District at the National Assembly has mourned nine teachers from Okitipupa Local Government Area killed in a road accident.
A motorist was killed after he lost control of his vehicle and somersaulted along Lagos-Ibadan expressway, the Federal Road Safety Corps has said.