Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Nigeria oil blast victims to get mass burial after ‘catastrophe’

Nigeria oil blast

Nigerian authorities gathered the charred remains of over 100 persons killed in an explosion at an illicit refinery in the country’s south on Monday, preparing for a mass burial following the “catastrophe” event. The blast late Friday at a site between Rivers and Imo states was one of the worst in years in an area … Read more

At least four dead, more trapped after Lagos high-rise collapse

LAGOS – A high-rise building under construction collapsed in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos on Monday, killing at least four people with dozens more feared trapped inside the rubble. A yellow excavator pushed away concrete slabs to search though the wreckage of the 21-floor building in Lagos’s wealthy Ikoyi residential and business district, AFP correspondents at … Read more