United Nations Eminent Peace Ambassador, Clubstar Signs For Peace | 2015 Kogi & Bayelsa State Elections

As Nigeria goes to the supplementary poll in Bayelsa state and kogi state,card readers, security issues have dominated the polity, with fears that the elections might not be peaceful in several local governments, towns and villages in the concern states. United Nations Eminent Peace Ambassador, Clubstar who recently joined forces with “The forest dame initiative” an NGO based in Abuja, Lambada Entertainment, Chaperon Group, (Muyiwa Olobayo CEO)  La Luz Entertainment  to promote the message of peace during and after the elections and to promote their anticipated single #Jabele+CLUBSTAR nig  FT +KEFCHILD OLUWA  produced by +Chinwuba Igbokwe . 

6 killed in Abuja-Lokoja road accident

An accident scene

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Kogi has confirmed the death of six persons in an accident which occurred on Tuesday on the Lokoja-Abuja road.

The state FRSC Sector Commander, Mr Garba Mohammed, said in Lokoja that the accident occurred in Karara village at 11:10 a.m.

He said the accident involved a Toyota Corolla car with registration number, Lagos GGE 204 EKY, and a Toyota Hiace bus with registration number, Lagos FKJ 634 XB.

Mohammed said 10 people were involved in the accident, adding that four victims were seriously wounded and rushed to Kogi State Specialist Hospital, Lokoja, for treatment.

The commander said that the corpses of the dead, comprising two men and four women, were deposited at the hospital.

He blamed the accident on dangerous overtaking and over-speeding on the part of the two drivers and advised motorists plying the road to always adhere to traffic rules and regulations.

NAN recalls that a woman was killed in an accident on the road on Monday, while five others were also seriously injured in the accident.

- Leadership Newspapers

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Okene Explosion: Other Bombers May Be Headed For Abuja, Says Arrested Suspect

 3m360 learnt that a captured bomber involved in the car bombing of a gasoline station in Okene today made a startling confession that another car rigged with bombs and with two men at the controls may be headed to Abuja to carry out a bomb attack.
Today a bomb exploded beside a gasoline station in Okene Township in Kogi State.
 
Eyewitnesses told SaharaReporters that a vehicle parked close to a gas station exploded. A police source disclosed that the vehicle was apparently timed to cause significant fire by igniting underground gasoline tanks in the area. There are no reported casualties, even though the trunk of the car was ripped apart.
 
Moments before the car exploded, residents and auto mechanics in the area said they saw two men walk briskly away from the car. They reported that the two men entered a bush around the area, apparently to hide. A vigilant group searched the forest and found one of the two men and later handed him over to the Joint Task Force team in the township.
 
Our sources said the captured car bomber confessed that he and his accomplice were headed to Abuja in a gold-colored "Honda Academy" saloon car. The bombers stopped at the MPC gasoline station on Lagos road in the Obehira-Oro area of Okene and their vehicle, rigged with explosives, exploded minutes later close to a church.
 
A second bomb planted at the entrance of a church in the Okene exploded before the the end of church service. The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) commander in the state,  Lieutenant-Colonel Gabriel Olorunyomi, said the  bomb was planted at the front of the Lord’s Chosen Church also in Obehira area of Okene timed to explode at the end of the church service. No one was injured in that attack.