One of the boys even brought out a knife to stab a police officer who wanted to stop him from scooping fuel.”The dilapidated condition of the roads around Dikko, particularly the Abuja-Kaduna expressway,

More than 70 were killed and dozens more were injured in a fuel tanker fire and explosion along a highway in central Nigeria, authorities said Saturday.

About four people were thrown southward. We could hear them crying and screaming in the air,” Abubakar Jibrin, a witness who narrowly escaped the fire, told PREMIUM TIMES.

The death toll from the petrol tanker explosion at Dikko Junction, Niger State, on Saturday has risen to 86, while 55 people were

The Federal Government has mourned the victims of petrol tanker explosion at Dikko Junction in Gurara Local Government Area of Niger State, expressing condolences to the government and people of the state.