2 hours ago · Nigeria’s roads have become a killing field, with fuel tanker crashes and fires claiming thousands of lives over the past 15 years. The statistics are staggering: About 3,445 people, according ...

Oct 17, 2024 · Across many Nigerian roads, overturned fuel tankers are a common sight, sometimes in traffic during the day. There were more than 1,500 such accidents resulting in 535 deaths in 2020, according to Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Corps.

Oct 16, 2024 · The death toll from a fuel tanker explosion in northern Nigeria has risen to at least 153, with another 100 people injured, police told CNN Thursday.

Jan 18, 2025 · At least 70 people have been killed in north-central Nigeria after a gasoline tanker exploded, the country’s emergency response agency said.

Jan 19, 2025 · The death toll from a gasoline tanker explosion in north-central Nigeria has risen to 86, the country’s emergency response agency said on Sunday.. The blast happened in the early hours of ...

Jan 18, 2025 · A fuel tanker explosion in Niger State in northern Nigeria has killed 86 people and injured dozens, the country’s national emergency agency said.

Jan 19, 2025 · The death toll from a gasoline tanker explosion in north-central Nigeria has risen to 86, the country’s emergency response agency said.

On 18 January 2025, a fuel tanker carrying roughly 60,000 liters of petrol overturned at the Dikko junction near Suleja, Niger State, northern Nigeria, where after crashing local residents gathered to collect spilled fuel. The fuel promptly caused an explosion which killed 98 people and injured another 69, including at least 52 critically.

Oct 16, 2024 · ABUJA, Nigeria — More than 140 people, including children, were killed in Nigeria when an overturned gasoline tanker truck exploded in flames while they tried to scoop up fuel, emergency...

Oct 17, 2024 · An overturned fuel tanker exploded on Tuesday night in northern Nigeria, killing at least 153 people who had rushed to the scene of the accident to collect leaking petrol, officials say.