Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charred remains of a petrol tanker lie at the scene of a deadly explosion that killed dozens along the Bida-Agaie road in Niger ...

A fuel tanker has overturned and exploded in Nigeria’s northern Niger State, killing at least 35 people, according to the country’s Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC). The vehicle skidded off the road ...

One of the three persons rushed to the Federal Medical Centre ( FMC), Abeokuta, following the petrol tanker explosion in the city, has died. Orisajo said that the death had brought the number of ...

An overturned oil tanker exploded in Nigeria while dozens of people were scooping up the leaking fuel and many were killed, police and witnesses said Saturday. "We have recovered 12 corpses and taken ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A tanker truck laden with gasoline explodes in north-central Nigeria, killing at least 31 people, police say.

The General Manager of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Olalekan Bakare-Oki, has said the driver of the diesel tanker that overturned on the Apapa bridge, inward Mile 2, will be ...

A devastating tanker explosion has claimed the lives of 30 people, leaving about 40 others injured in Essan and Badeggi communities along the Bida–Agaie road in Katcha Local Government Area of Niger ...

Two people lost their lives in a diesel tanker explosion early Thursday along the Badagry Expressway, Lagos, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority has confirmed. The incident occurred at the ...

The National Emergency Management Agency has deployed an emergency response following a petrol tanker explosion that claimed 39 lives and left more than 60 others with severe burns in the Essan ...